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August 15, 2024: Jagannath Panda, Head of ISDP’s Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was interviewed by Mirror Now, an Indian television channel, about Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stepping down. “There are a lot of implications for Japan post Kishida, the most important is alliance politics. Japan will be under pressure how […]

August 12, 2024: The webinar “China’s Himalayan Hustle – Part I: Can China Achieve Infrastructural Hegemony?”, organized by ISDP’s Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs on June 13, 2024, was covered by Asian News International (ANI). Read the summary in ANI here. Here, you can find the recording as well as the report […]

August 1, 2024: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in a panel on India at the 7th Global International Studies Conference of the World International Studies Committee (WISC) in Warsaw from 24-26 July 2024. The conference theme was International Relations in a World of Flux: Understanding […]

July 2024: In collaboration with the Australian Embassy in The Hague, the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) of the ISDP organized a 1.5 dialogue on ‘Australia-EU Cooperation in Indo-Pacific’. This 1.5 dialogue delves into how Australia’s perspectives on the Indo-Pacific could feature more significantly in the EU member states’ understanding of […]

July 2024: In the ongoing battle of narratives, Taiwan can leverage an active civic society to showcase its values through athletes and sports teams: Yi-Chieh Chen, a Junior Research Fellow at ISDP’s Stockholm Taiwan Center, talked about why sports diplomacy matters for Taiwan’s soft power in Radio Taiwan International. Listen to the interview here. ISDP […]

July 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Omni about Kim Jong Un’s Sister, Kim Yo Jong. The article is titled “A powerful princess” – then the world understood who she was”. You can find the article here (in Swedish).

July, 2024: Mats Engman, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center and Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, participated in the Korea Europe Peace Platform – Berlin Forum 2024, together with experts from South Korea, Europe, and the U.S. He was invited to present a paper at the third panel on, “Prospects for Inter-Korean relations, North-South relations […]

July 2024: In-bum Chun, a Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, spoke on Deutsche Welle (DW) about “Berlin to commit personnel to tense North-South Korea border”. “Maintaining peace on the Korean Peninsula has always been a challenge, so the more nations that get involved in the maintenance of the armistice is beneficial not only to South […]

July 2024: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed in Swedish and international news outlets on the NATO summit. About the expectations for the summit in Dagens Nyheter About the opening of the summit for SVT Comments for BBC News on the results of the NATO Summit with regard to Ukraine

July 4, 2024: The recording of the webinar “Beyond the Game: Taiwan’s Soft Power Through Sports Diplomacy” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. The upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics offers a global stage for countries to advertise themselves through sports. What is the future of Taiwan’s sports diplomacy and what do international sporting events mean […]