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April 10, 2026: Several Swedish universities have agreements with universities linked to the Chinese military: The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter highlights the ISDP report that was part of the China-Europe Academic Engagement Tracker – a database of interactions between European academic institutions and Chinese entities created by the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS) […]

April 9, 2026: The Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) hosted a delegation led by Mr. Swapnil M. Naik, Chief Electoral Officer of the Union Territory of Chandigarh in India, on Tuesday, 7 April 2026, in ISDP to discuss the ‘Electoral Reforms and Administrative Practices and Experiences of Sweden and India’. The […]

April 8, 2026: Genevieve Donnellon-May, an Associated Research Fellow with ISDP, was quoted in the South China Morning Post on Trump’s critical-minerals alliance strategy. “Any sustained oil shock makes the economic case for non-Chinese processing capacity significantly harder to build.” Trump’s strategy of forming processing partnerships with Australia, Japan, Canada and others relies on the […]

David Biggs, Senior Fellow, ISDP’s Stockholm Center for Research and Innovation Security (SCRIS), is active throughout 2026 as a keynote speaker and featured contributor at international conferences focused on research security, scientific collaboration, and global innovation policy. In these engagements, he is focusing broadly on two messages: that research security is the collective effort of […]

April 7, 2026: Yi-Chieh Chen, Research Fellow and Project Manager at the Stockholm Taiwan Center, was interviewed by Radio Taiwan International on Taiwan’s baseball diplomacy. Listen to the interview here. You can also read more about the topic in Yi-Chieh Chen’s issue brief “Taiwan’s Sports Diplomacy: Expanding Nation Branding Beyond Politics and Technology”.  

April 7, 2026: ISDP is delighted to welcome Lieutenant General (Ret.) In-bum Chun as a Guest Researcher at the Stockholm Korea Center until May 10th. Lieutenant General (Ret.) Chun is a Senior Fellow for the Association of the United States Army, President of the Society for Army Alliance-Korea, President of the Korea AI Security Association, […]

March 31, 2026: The recording of the webinar “Research and Innovation Series (RIS) – Part V: UK Perspectives on Research and Innovation Security” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. The Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) is pleased to host the next webinar in its Research and Innovation Series (RIS), focusing on how […]

March 31, 2026: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, spoke at the Belgrade Security and Intelligence Forum II (BSIF 2026), which was held on 27–28 March 2026 in Belgrade, organized by the Institute for National and International Security (INIS), Serbia. He spoke on ‘China and the Strait […]

March 27, 2026: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, published an analysis on “China’s Free Ride in Hormuz” in the Diplomat. This piece was featured in the Guardian’s opinion piece: “The Guardian view on China and Iran: the war poses bigger questions for Beijing than where to get […]

March 26, 2026: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, participated in the TV4 Nyhetsmorgon. During the program, she discussed the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) defense cooperation in connection with today’s meeting in Helsinki, where Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is participating at the invitation of President Alexander Stubb. Watch the interview here (in Swedish).