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June 8, 2026: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by the South China Morning Post about Xi Jinping’s visit to North Korea. “[Russia’s] role with Pyongyang is military and transactional, whilst China provides long-term economic and political sustainability.” “Overall, Xi’s message is one of managed proximity: close enough to prevent instability or exclusion, distant […]

June 5, 2026: On June 4th, the Stockholm Taiwan Center had the pleasure of hosting a roundtable discussion with Dr. Shan-Jan Sarah Liu. The roundtable discussion was moderated by Yi-Chieh Chen. Dr. Shan-Jan Sarah Liu is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Gender and Politics at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. The […]

June 5, 2026: The Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), represented by Dr. Niklas Swanström, Director of ISDP, and Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA), participated in the 11th Ulaanbaatar Dialogue (UBD) International Conference held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on 4–5 June 2026. Organized by the […]

June 5, 2026: Svante Cornell, ISDP’s Director, moderated the seminar “Reframing Central Asia: Uzbekistan’s Reform Transformation and the Region’s Emerging Strategic Role” organized by the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Stockholm on June 3, 2026. Featuring keynote remarks by Senator Sodiq Safayev, First Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Uzbekistan, alongside contributions from Director of the […]

June 4, 2026: Alicia Hennig, Associated Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Center for Research and Innovation Security (SCRIS), was interviewed by Deutsche Welle about China’s growing espionage campaign in Germany. Listen to the interview here.

June 4, 2026: Alicia Hennig, Associated Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Center for Research and Innovation Security (SCRIS), was interviewed by Deutschlandfunk about two Chinese students suspected of espionage in Germany. You can listen to the interview here (in German).

June 3, 2026: ISDP is delighted to welcome Feride Bahar Erdoğan: Feride Bahar Erdoğan is a Visiting Fellow at the ISDP from 1 June to 31 July 2026, under the Erasmus+ internship program. During her fellowship at ISDP, she will be conducting advanced research for her PhD thesis, focusing on non-Western and middle power mediation […]

June 2, 2026: Genevieve Donnellon-May, Associated Research Fellow, was interviewed on the China Observers podcast (podcast of the China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE)) on “China’s Food Security Crisis: Challenges and Innovations”. Description of the podcast episode: China feeds 20% of the world with just 9% of global arable land. In this episode, […]

On May 21, 2026, ISDP had the great pleasure of welcoming a student group from Penn State University’s College of Information Sciences and Technology. The students and their professors, Christopher Sebora and Joseph Squillace, were visiting various countries and organizations in Europe to gain broader international perspectives on national security and global risk. Stockholm and […]

May 29, 2026: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by JBIC Today on the topic “Geoeconomics Amid a Changing World Order: the challenges of diversification and realignment”. As the global order appears to be in transition, alliances shift and the economic interdependence that once promised peace is weaponized, geoeconomics and security specialist Dr. Niklas […]