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January 2, 2024: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, is one of the signatories of an open letter from a range of prominent members of the Alphen Group to the U.S. Congress urging for more support to Ukraine. Key messages: The United States needs to accelerate the delivery of fighter aircraft and long-range artillery […]

December 2023: This episode of Japanpodden focuses on Japanese Whiskey and Christmas. Japanpodden is a Swedish-language podcast about everything related to Japan. The editors are Göran Edman, Hans Rhodiner, Lars Vargö, and Jon Thunqvist. Listen in here. Language: Swedish

December 18, 2023: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Expressen on Kim Jong-Un’s daughter Kim Ju-Ae. Recently, the daughter has been in the public eye a lot. “She has become the whole of North Korea’s daughter,” says Niklas Swanström. You can listen to the interview (in Swedish) here.

December 15, 2023: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in the SIPRI workshop titled “Geopolitics meets the local: A global to local stocktaking”. Experts from the USA, China, and different countries in Europe and Asia participated in the workshop. More details can be found here.

December 14, 2023: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in an online roundtable Conversation on “Charting the Security Landscape in the Indo-Pacific” organized by the Center for Security and Defense Research, New Delhi. You can find out more about the event here.

December 14, 2023: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was quoted by Voice of America (Chinese) on China-Bhutan relations. You can find the article here (in Chinese).

December 13, 2023: The recording of the ISDP-Sejong Institute Webinar “A Post-Liberal Indo-Pacific? Perspectives on the Future of the International Order” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. The event addresses the following questions: How do the Indo-Pacific strategies of the U.S., EU, India, South Korea, Japan etc., differ in their position on cooperating with […]

December 12, 2023: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was invited by TV4 Nyhetsmorgon to discuss the current world situation, the new Swedish-U.S. defense cooperation agreement, and Ukraine. Anna Wieslander’s main message: – The global situation is very serious. – The agreement with the U.S. is good for Sweden, given the importance of deterrence […]

December 12, 2023: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, signed an appeal of think-tankers who have been working on European security for many years to the citizens of Europe and their leaders. Abandoning Ukraine would render Europe terribly vulnerable. The three key messages of the appeal are: The situation is critical. There is an […]

December 12, 2023: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was quoted by the South China Morning Post on India’s alignment with Israel. He said that India’s alignment with Israel is part of its calculations to increase its clout in the Middle East. “India has been a part of […]