News & Media

January 14, 2022: Anna Wieslander, Chairman of the ISDP Board, was interviewed in The New York Times on how the fear of Russia brings new purpose and unity to NATO. Here you can read the article.

January 13, 2022: The ISDP Korea Center and the Hanshin University Eurasia Institute, Republic of Korea, signed a Memorandum of Understanding, agreeing to further their collaboration on matters of mutual interest in the future.

January 11, 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 topic “#Kazakhstan: What about Uzbekistan?”. Listen to the recording here.

As the world welcomes 2022, ISDP invites its readers to look back at twelve of the most popular publications of the past year (in chronological order). 2021 marked the beginning of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts, continued border closures, and a shift of the global security focus on the Indo-Pacific. The broad range of topics covered in […]

January 6, 2022: Niklas Swanström has been quoted in The Defense Post on China’s Xi Jinping orders the creation of elite troops to “win the war”. Read the full article on The Defense Post’s website.

January 7, 2022: Gareth Jenkins has been quoted in UrduPoint on why Turkey’s defense system is unlikely to compete with S-400, Patriot soon. Read the full article on UrdoPoint’s website.

January 6, 2022: Niklas Swanström was interviewed in Svenska Dagbladet on China’s new ambassador to Sweden, Cui Aimin. Here you can read the interview (in Swedish).

January 6, 2022: Julian Tucker wrote a chapter called “A brief history of international influence in Afghanistan” in the journal Orient from the German Orient-Institute. Read the first part of the introduction here and the full article in the issue Orient I 2022 (German Orient-Institute).

January 5, 2022: Sangsoo Lee has been quoted in the Financial Times on the topic how “South Korea forges ahead with end of war declaration despite US reservations”. Read the article here.

January 3, 2022: Fatoumata Diallo discusses the Xiong’an New Area in Hebei province, perhaps the most well-known and biggest smart city project that is currently in development in China, in the China Smart State Podcast by LeidenAsiaCentre. Listen to the episode here.