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January 28, 2022: This episode of Japanpodden focuses on the Japanese yakuza. Listen in here. Language: Swedish

January 27, 2022: The full recording of the webinar “Genres of Translation of Swedish Literature in Taiwan: the Past, the Present and Predictions” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. Here you can find more information about the webinar and the speaker Teng-Chian Kuo.

January 25, 2022: Anna Wieslander, Chairman of the ISDP Board, was interviewed in the Financial Times on how the Ukraine crisis revives the Nato debate in Finland and Sweden. Read the full article on the Financial Time’s website.

January 22, 2022: Gareth Jenkins has been quoted in UrduPoint on why Putin and Zelenskyy are unlikely to hold a bilateral meeting in Turkey: “While I can see why Zelenskyy might be willing to accept Erdogan’s invitation, I don’t think that there is any prospect of Putin doing so. Erdogan’s invitation says more about Erdogan and his limited understanding of the world than […]

January 20, 2022: Against the background that hypersonic weapons are currently gaining a lot of attention in the field of armament and that this technology is considered the greatest advance of the last decade, Niklas Swanström was interviewed in China.Table on why China is betting on hypersonic weapons. Read the whole article on China.Table’s website.

January 19, 2022: S. Frederick Starr, Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program, was interviewed on the The John Batchelor Show on the topics “What of Uzbekistan?” and “What we know and don’t know about the Kazakhstan turmoil”.

January 19, 2022: The full recording of the webinar “China-US Relations: A View from the American Academic Sector” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube Channel. Here you can find more information about the webinar and the speakers.

January 19, 2022: Torbjörn Lodén, Head of the ISDP China Center, will give a lecture on “China in the Eyes of Swedes: Three Hundred Years of Sinology” at the Hong Kong Baptist University on Wednesday, January 26.

January 18, 2022: The full recording of the webinar “The Current and Future Role of the United Nations Command in South Korea” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube Channel. Here you can find more information about the webinar and the speakers. The ISDP Korea Center would like to acknowledge that this event was co-arranged with […]

January 14, 2022: Jagannath Panda, an Associated Senior Research Fellow at the ISDP, has been quoted in Japan Forward on the topic of a deeper British-Japanese intelligence cooperation: “If Tokyo can gradually bolster its counter-intelligence capabilities and prove its ability to maintain a tight hold over shared intelligence and processed assessments, Japan can emerge as […]