ISDP Voices

During their 4th Joint Defence Cooperation Committee (JDCC) and 2nd Service-to-Service (STS) Meeting recently, the Philippines and India stated their mutual commitment to strengthening the capacity of their defense partnership. It was also reported that Manila and New Delhi are in talks for the potential deployment of an Indian defense attaché to the Southeast Asian […]

India recently announced it would send a consignment of 20,000 metric tons of wheat to the Taliban-led Afghanistan through Chabahar port in Iran. This wheat is part of India’s humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people after the Taliban takeover in August 2021. India, a friendly country to Afghanistan, has been sending wheat consignments to the […]

Key Takeaways Sweden should voice support for Taiwan’s inclusion in the upcoming WHA. Statehood is not at the center of WHO/WHA membership; Taiwan was a WHA observer for eight years as Chinese Taipei. Taiwan’s participation in the WHA is a global health issue. Taiwan’s inclusion in the WHA can improve Cross-Strait relations. Taiwan has made […]

At the Munich Security Conference in February, Wang Yi, China’s highest-ranking diplomat and member of the Politburo, stated that China should not be perceived as a rival but rather as a partner of Europe. The EU, however, designated China a “systemic rival” in 2019. In January this year, Sweden assumed the presidency of the European […]

Eurasia is undergoing a geopolitical Zeitenwende. The Russia–Ukraine war has transformed the continent’s security perspective, bringing its opposite ends together into a strategic tandem. At the same time as longstanding neutral countries Finland and Sweden have decided to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the transatlantic alliance has extended its reach to the Indo-Pacific, […]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a watershed event in contemporary international politics to the extent that it has divided all international developments into prior and post the Ukrainian war. From the onset of the war itself, many analysts have been debating that the war would sooner or later bring about changes in […]