News & Media

September 29, 2026: Genevieve Donnellon-May, Associated Research Fellow, was interviewed by Radio France International about the recent Nepal-China landslide, hydropower projects and associated risks. The article quotes Geneviève Donnellon-May, a researcher at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, as telling Libération that a broader lesson from this mudslide and flooding disaster is […]

September 25, 2026: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, has been elected a member Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences (Kungliga Örlogsmannasällskapet). Read more about the appointment here (in Swedish).

September 23, 2026: The Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP) and the U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Next-Gen Study Group (Study Group) are pleased to announce the launch of a joint policy roundtable series designed to create opportunities for cross-regional dialogue between next-generation leaders and distinguished experts on security cooperation across the Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic regions. The new […]

September 23, 2026: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, moderated a session titled “A Sea of Troubles: Japan Between Two Revisionist Powers” at the 20th ABCD (Annual Baltic Conference on Defence) organized by the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS), Tallinn, and the Ministry of Defence […]

September 22, 2026: Genevieve Donnellon-May, Associated Research Fellow, was interviewed by Libération about hydropower dams in Tibet and implications for the downstream region. The article also refers to the Focus Asia Paper “Engineering Asia’s Water Tower: Transboundary Governance Challenges of China’s Tibetan Plateau Mega-Projects”, co-authored by Genevieve Donnellon-May, Mark Wang, and Ian Rutherfurd. Read the […]

September 22, 2026: The recording of the webinar “Research and Innovation Series (RIS) – Part X: Reframing Research Security for the Future of International Science and Technology Collaboration” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. In this webinar, David Biggs presented a forward-looking perspective on research security that moves beyond compliance-driven approaches. Drawing on recent […]

September 21, 2026: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, and In-bum Chun, Distinguished Military Fellow, were interviewed by Yle on Japan and South Korea’s growing interest in developing nuclear weapons amid doubts about U.S. support. “To put it bluntly, one could say that the military impact of this isn’t particularly significant at the moment, but it’s […]

September 21, 2026: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was quoted by the Indian Tribune about the expanded BRICS. It noted that for New Delhi, BRICS plus should not be viewed only through the prism of China’s influence, as the expanded grouping allows India to build coalitions with […]

September 21, 2026: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was quoted by the South China Morning Post on Sweden’s changing perception of China: “In Gothenburg, they sort of looked at it and said, ‘China is one of the good guys, because they provide job opportunities” “We do not compete necessarily on the same terms with China […]

September 18, 2026: Jagannath Panda, head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was quoted by the South China Morning Post on Pakistan’s newly acquired Chinese-made short-range air defense system. “More importantly, Pakistan appears to be filling a vulnerability at the lower end of its layered air-defence architecture,” Panda said. “Its acquisition […]