News & Media

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. […]

May 20, 2026: The Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) hosted an engaging academic interaction on May 19 titled “India’s Search for Major Power Status and the US-China Rivalry,” bringing together two distinguished scholars of international relations: Prof. T. V. Paul (McGill University, Canada) and Prof. Nabanita Chaddha Behera (University of Delhi, […]

May 18, 2026: ISDP is pleased to announce the appointment of Melita Phachulia: Melita Phachulia is an Executive Assistant at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), working closely with the Stockholm Center for Research and Innovation Security (SCRIS) and the Asia Program. She holds a master’s degree in Disinformation and Societal Resilience from […]

May 18, 2026: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was quoted by Aftonbladet regarding Donald Trump’s statement on Taiwan following his meeting with Xi Jinping, stating that he does not want Taiwan to be independent. “Trump’s remarks are not surprising in themselves, the U.S. has always formally held that position, but the way he presented them […]

May 18, 2026: Svante Cornell, ISDP’s Director, was quoted by Politico on Sergio Gor in Central Asia. “To be a little blunt, for people who worked on the region, he was not widely known,” said Svante Cornell. “He’s clearly taken an interest, and it’s been appreciated by the leadership in the region.” Read the article […]

May 18, 2026: What do Xi Jinping and China hope to gain from the meeting with Donald Trump? Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Yle. “Without a doubt, it’s Taiwan—it’s number one, two, and three on the list of priorities. From the Chinese perspective, there seems to be hope that Trump will take […]