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June 5, 2019: ISDP organized a roundtable discussion with our visiting fellows from the Korea-Europe Assocation and external guests. The session focused on economic development in North Korea.

June 3, 2019: ISDP is pleased to welcome Fatoumata Diallo as a Junior Research Fellow. Fatoumata will work with ISDP’s Stockholm China Center, conducting research on domestic political developments in China as well as Chinese foreign policy. Fatoumata holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Leiden University, the Netherlands and a Bachelor’s Degree in […]

June 7, 2019: Halil Karaveli’s “Why Turkey is Authoritarian” was reviewed by Anders Q Björkman in Svenska Dagbladet. Read the full article here.        

June 2, 2019: Halil Karaveli was interviewed by the Arab Weekly on the upcoming rerun of local elections in Turkey. “The Kurdish vote is going to be decisive, with the margin between the candidates being so narrow.”

May 30, 2019: Niklas Swanström was interviewed by TT on what appears to be changes in the leadership in North Korea, with appearances in Dagens Industri, Aftonbladet, and Hufvudstadsbladet. “Det har skett en förändring i systemet, från säkerhetstjänsten till utrikesministeriet. De gamla förhandlarna är mer eller mindre utbytta. Men om de har avrättats eller inte, […]

May 28, 2019: ISDP is pleased to welcome Mr. Paek Song Chol, Director, and Mr. Choe Hyon Do, Officer from the Department of Economic Policy, Korea-Europe Association, Pyongyang, North Korea, as visiting fellows at ISDP during May-June 2019. At ISDP, they will focus their research on economic policy on the Korean Peninsula.

On May 17, 2019, ISDP hosted a public forum entitled “Japan’s Human Security Policy – the Concept at 25”.  To open the forum, ISDP welcomed Professor Akiko Yamanaka, Special Advisor to the President of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), for a presentation reflecting Japan’s take on the concept of Human […]

On May 16, 2019, ISDP hosted a forum entitled; “Chinese Investment, Infrastructure and Influence in Europe – the Global Context”. For the initial keynote presentation, ISDP welcomed Dr. Matt Ferchen, a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy. Following his presentation, Dr. Ferchen took part in a panel discussion with Ms. Maria Åsenius, Head […]

May 8, 2019: Halil Karaveli was interviewed by Ahram Online after the recent decision by the Turkey’s High Election Board (YSK)  to accept an appeal by the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) for a re-run of local polls in Istanbul on the basis of irregularities. “The presidential system that was introduced last year was to […]

May 4, 2019: Niklas Swanström was interviewed by TT on the recent projectile launch, with appearances in Aftonbladet, Dangens Industri, Upsala Nya Tidning and Folkbladet, among others. “Det är samtidigt en stark indikation på att han försöker få Donald Trumps uppmärksamhet. Nordkorea är oerhört frustrerat över att USA inte vill släppa sanktionerna och erkänna landet […]