News & Media

October 25, 2018: Svante Cornell was interviewed by Modern Diplomacy on Azeri-Armenian relations and the massacre in Khojaly, Azerbaijan. “The Armenian side had two important objectives: firstly, to force the civilian population to abandon its territory in a way that it would never come back; and to break the resistance of civilians against the Armenian occupation.” 

October 21, 2018: Gareth Jenkins was interviewed by CGTN America about the Jamal Khashoggi case. “Under the Trump administration, he has really made Saudi the center of the U.S. campaign to try and isolate Iran. The Saudis have been working very closely with the U.S. to try and persuade people in the region, not to […]

October 18, 2018: ISDP organized a roundtable on gender issues on the Korean Peninsula with the participation of our guest researchers from the DPRK and ROK. The discussion revolved around various topics such as gender equality, women’s representation in politics and their situation in society.

October, 18 2018: Gareth Jenkins was interviewed by Ahval News on Erdogan politicising the Turkish military. “The result is likely to be a further erosion of the Turkish military’s competence and operational capabilities.”  

October 15, 2018: Halil Karaveli was interviewed by the German radio station Deutschlandfunk (1:49) about his new book “Why Turkey is Authoritarian: From Atatürk to Erdogan”. “Turkey is a warning example: It shows us how to eliminate the political left when the political right manages to transform class struggles into cultural clashes, by exploiting the alienation […]

October 6, 2018: Elliot Brennan was interviewed by NPR about Chinese gunboat diplomacy on the Mekong River. “The Chinese gunboat presence is just to remind neighbors of the influence they can wield and that the hard power, the sharp power they hold is increasing, and I don’t see that ebbing anytime soon.”

October 2, 2018: S. Frederick Starr gave a Distinguished Speaker Lecture at the Woodrow Wilson Institute entitled Is Russia Becoming Central Asia’s Near Abroad? Watch the video of the lecture here or below.

October 1, 2018: ISDP is pleased to welcome two Visiting Fellows from the DPRK. Ms O Son Hwa and Ms Hwang Su Yon of the Europe-Korea Association in Pyongyang will spend one month at ISDP to research issues pertaining to gender equality.

October 1, 2018: Niklas Swanström attended the workshop “From Present to Past: China and Global History” in Pavia, Italy. Chinese and European experts discussed China-North Korea relations and the Belt and Road Initiative. Dr Swanström delivered the keynote speech on the past, present and the future of China’s foreign policy.

September 30, 2018: Svante Cornell was interviewed in The National on Turkish politics and religion. “The world view and the mentality and the ideology of this particular Naqshbandi group has defined Turkish Islamism […] if you look at President Erdogan, who is himself a member of an arm of the Naqshbandi, he has a positive […]