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ISDP is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Bo-jiun Jing as a Research Fellow at ISDP’s Asia Program and Stockholm China Center. He recently passed his Ph.D. viva (defense) in International Political Economy at King’s College London. He is also a member of the 2022 Chatham House-Korea Foundation Next Generation Policy Expert Network and […]

November 21, 2022: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Svenska Dagbladet on North Korea’s latest missile tests and the uncertainty that these tests cause. “This is worrying given the global uncertainty, with an ongoing war in Ukraine and a growing conflict in Taiwan. North Korea’s actions are like pouring napalm on an open […]

November 18, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was interviewed in Nowa Konfederacja on India as a non-aligned power in the New Cold War. India is a non-aligned power; this move not only protects its own varied relations (as seen with India-Russia ties and even India-China bilateral) […]

November 18, 2022: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed in Studio Ett, Sveriges Radio, on the missile strike in Poland and the consequences for NATO and Ukraine. She talks about the topic with Andreas Hörnedal from FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency. You can listen to the interview here (in Swedish).

November 17, 2022: Halil Karaveli was quoted in several Swedish media outlets on how the terrorist attack in Turkey may affect NATO negotiations. “On the other hand, I think it may be easier for the Swedish government to justify to Swedish public opinion why it is showing solidarity with Turkey. They are doing the right […]

November 16, 2022: The latest issue from the “India-Sweden Strategic Compass” is now available. The Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs publishes a bi-monthly newsletter, the ‘India-Sweden Strategic Compass’. The newsletter focuses on current affairs, highlighting Sweden and India relations, India-Nordic relations, EU-India relations, domestic developments in India, and relevant international updates. The latest […]

November 16, 2022: The full recording of the webinar “Hong Kong: a City of no Opposition” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. In the summer of 2020, nearly a year after a controversial extradition bill sparked the largest protest movement seen in the history of Hong Kong, China clamped down with the sudden introduction […]

November 15, 2022: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by the Swedish Expressen on the reports that China is preparing for war against Taiwan. “The military threat from China is much more real today than it has been in the past. That way, absolutely we have to take this more seriously,” explains Niklas Swanström. […]

November 11, 2022: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed in several Swedish media outlets about North Korea’s recent missile tests. North Korea intensifies its provocative weapons tests off the coast of South Korea and Japan. Last week,one of the missiles reportedly struck near South Korean waters. It is a provocation described as unusually large. […]

November 11, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated as a speaker at the session “Asia reacts to the war in Ukraine: Geopolitical implications for the region” at SIPRI’s 2022 Stockholm Security Conference. More information about the conference is available here.