Report of the Digital Taiwan Online Lecture Series. Taiwan in Limbo: Challenges and Prospects for Participation in the United Nations System

The Stockholm Taiwan Center of the Institute for Security and Development Policy held a webinar for the Digital Taiwan Lecture Series on September 12, 2025, to explore Taiwan’s ongoing struggle to engage the United Nations (UN) system and discuss how current geopolitical dynamics may influence Taiwan’s future participation in the international arena. Dr. Antonina Luszczykiewicz-Mendis, Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford, Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and non-resident fellow at the Taiwan Center for Security Studies at the National Chengchi University in Taipei, and Dr. Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy, Affiliated Scholar at the Department of Political Science of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Associated Research Fellow at the Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP), Head of the Associates Network at 9DASHLINE, Fellow at Agora Strategy and Assistant Professor at the National Dong Hwa University in Hualien, were the two speakers, with Dr. Niklas Swanström, Executive Director at ISDP, and Dr. Klement Ruey-Sheng Gu, former
Representative of the Taipei Mission in Stockholm, serving as moderator.