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May 29, 2026: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by JBIC Today on the topic “Geoeconomics Amid a Changing World Order: the challenges of diversification and realignment”. As the global order appears to be in transition, alliances shift and the economic interdependence that once promised peace is weaponized, geoeconomics and security specialist Dr. Niklas […]

May 29, 2026: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was quoted by Politico regarding the importance of the Swedish island of Gotland to NATO’s deterrence and defense. “They have seen a lot of increased Russian activity … cable-cutting, drone overflights, quite a few incidents of espionage,” said Anna Wieslander. “When you have a situation […]

May 26, 2026: Dr. Niklas Swanström, Executive Director of the Institute for Security and Development Policy, spoke at the 8th International Symposium on Scientific and Legal Aspects of the Regimes of the Continental Shelf and the Area, held in Xiamen, China. The symposium was jointly organized by the State Key Laboratory of Submarine Geoscience, the […]

May 25, 2026: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was interviewed by the South China Morning Post about Bangladesh’s potential purchase of a Sino-Pakistani fighter jet and the tense relations between Bangladesh and India. “For Bangladesh, the JF-17 Block III would offer a relatively affordable multi-role platform with […]

May 25, 2026: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed by Sveriges Radio Studio Ett about the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Helsingborg. Listen to the program here (in Swedish).

May 25, 2026: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, spoke on SVT about the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Helsingborg and the technology agreement between Sweden and the United States. Link to Morgonstudion (in Swedish). Link to Aktuellt (in Swedish).

May 22, 2026: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed by Swedish media about the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Helsingborg. Sweden praised at Nato meeting: Here, you can listen to the interview conducted by Radio Sweden in English. Additionally, she was interviewed in P1 Morgon, Sveriges Radio (in Swedish), as well as […]

May 21, 2026: The recording of the webinar “Research and Innovation Series (RIS) – Part VII: Canada’s Approach to Research and Innovation Security” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. Geopolitical competition now targets knowledge production, critical technologies, and academic collaboration, making the protection of research and innovation systems a key policy priority. Canada, home to leading universities […]

May 21, 2026: Alicia Hennig, Associated Senior Research Fellow, commented on the SMILE space mission on German ZDF’s program ‘Heute Journal’. This mission is a cooperation between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the PRC’s national academy of natural sciences.  You can watch the interview here (in German).  

May 20, 2026: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA), participated in the Annual Oxford Taiwan Studies Conference 2026, titled “Taiwan and Its Neighbours: Indo-Pacific States in a Changing World Order,” held at the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, on 14 May 2026. […]