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April 10, 2025: Mr. Agust Börjesson, Acting Head of the Stockholm Taiwan Center and Research Fellow, participated in Folk & Försvar’s seminar “Avgörs geopolitikens framtid i Taiwan?” (Is the Future of Geopolitics Decided in Taiwan?) on March 28, 2025. During the the seminar, four Swedish experts discussed different aspects of Taiwan’s significance to the world […]

April 10, 2025: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, participates in the World Summit 2025 “Contemporary Challenges to World Order: Establishing a New Era of Peace and Prosperity” on April 11, 2025. Niklas Swanström will speak about confidence-building measures (CBMs) on the Korean Peninsula.

April 10, 2025: Mats Engman, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center and Distinguished Military Fellow, was invited for a round table discussion on the sideline of the NNSC Capital Consultations in Stockholm organized by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in cooperation with the Swedish Institute for International Affairs (UI). He joined Gen (ret) LaCamera […]

April 10, 2025: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed by Deutsche Welle on the question of how NATO can become more European. Watch the interview here.

Do you want to learn more about contemporary politics on the Korean Peninsula? Are you from one of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, or Finland) and are you in your early career or pursuing a PhD?   To promote greater awareness and more balanced knowledge, the ISDP Stockholm Korea Center and the Korea Foundation are […]

April 8, 2025: Last week, ISDP had the pleasure of hosting a practicum group from the U.S. National War College, visiting Stockholm as part of their Group Strategy Research Project focused on developing a U.S. strategy toward Sweden and Finland.  Organized jointly with our partners, the visit facilitated rich discussions between the students and a […]

April 8, 2025: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Yle on the cooperation between China, Japan, and South Korea against Trump’s tariffs. “There will be a need to shift trade away from the US to other actors. And I think there is a great consensus between the countries on this,” says Niklas Swanström. […]

April 8, 2025: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, delivered a speech at the Belgrade Security and Intelligence Forum, organized by the Institute for National and International Security, Serbia, in Belgrade from March 27-29, 2025. This forum was organised by representatives and speakers from Serbia, Israel, Poland, […]

March 26, 2025: The recording of the Taiwan Lecture “Virtual Book Talk with Dr. Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy – Partners in Peace: Why Europe and Taiwan Matter to Each Other” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. During this webinar, Associated Research Fellow Dr. Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy discusses her recent book “Partners in Peace: Why Europe […]

March 24, 2025: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was quoted by Carnegie Europe on European defense spending. The article explores the question “Given the UK and Turkey’s significant military capabilities, should they be included in the union’s defense spending schemes?”. “The boost in money available for buying weapons and ammunition should be directed […]