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May 8, 2026: Will Pakistan’s new defence pact with Saudi Arabia give Chinese arms risk-free exposure? Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was quoted by the South China Morning Post. Read the article here.

May 7, 2026: The recording of the Silk Cage Series – Webinar V: “Hormuz in the Silk Cage: China’s Choke Point Strategy by 2030–35” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. This webinar, under the Silk Cage series, examines whether the Strait of Hormuz is becoming another node in China’s evolving strategic cage, where connectivity, commerce, […]

May 7, 2026: Yesterday, on May 6, the ISDP team had the pleasure of hosting a roundtable discussion with Dr. Marcin Grabowski, Associated Senior Research Fellow with ISDP’s Stockholm Center for Research and Innovation Security (SCRIS). Marcin Grabowski presented current challenges concerning research and innovation security in Poland as well as core findings from “The […]

May 6, 2026: During his stay at ISDP as a guest researcher (April 4th – May 10th), Lieutenant General (Ret.) In-bum Chun, a three-star general of the Republic of Korea Army, engaged in a series of high-level exchanges across Stockholm, all around his research into how middle powers adapt their defense postures to shifting security […]

May 5, 2026: ISDP is pleased to welcome Ingrid Tersman as a member of our board. Ingrid Tersman is a Swedish diplomat with over 30 years of experience from international diplomacy at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and from service at the Ministry of Defence. Her profile is security policy, Central and Eastern Europe […]

May 4, 2026: Lars Vargö, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center, was interviewed by Dagens Nyheter about Kim Jong-Un’s speech about North Korean soldiers in Ukraine and its ideological implications. “The fact that Kim Jong-un is now speaking openly about this may also be an attempt to make South Korea fear North Korean soldiers,” says […]

April 29, 2026: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, visited Kyiv in Ukraine and spoke at a conference titled “From Diplomacy of Resistance to Diplomacy of Action” organized by the Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism” along with the Representative Office of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Ukraine. […]

April 28, 2026: The South China Morning Post quoted Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs and principal investigator of the “Silk Cage” project, in an article explaining why India’s Korea deal would raise concerns in China. He said India’s defense cooperation with South Korea reflected a “broader transition” […]

April 28, 2026: Jagannath Panda was quoted in the South China Morning Post on how Russian missiles could strengthen India against Pakistan’s Chinese Weapons. “For India, integrating the R-37M on platforms such as Su-30MKI or other compatible fighters cound extend engagement engagement envelopes and complicate Pakistani air planning,” said Jagannath Panda. “It may force Pakistan […]

April 24. 2026: The Institute for Security and Development Policy’s Stockholm Taiwan Center delegation—comprising Executive Director Niklas Swanström, Research Fellow Yi-Chieh Chen, and Research Fellow Maud Descamps—recently visited Taiwan to deepen its engagement and strengthen ties with longstanding partners. On April 22, building on a close relationship established in 2019, ISDP signed a Memorandum of […]