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November 9, 2026: Niklas Swanström, Executive Director of ISDP, participated in the 7th Symposium on Global Maritime Cooperation and Ocean Governance in Sanya, China. During the symposium, he spoke in the session “Exploring Emerging Frontiers on Ocean Governance with a Focus on the Arctic, Navigational Safety, and Beyond,” where he addressed developments in Arctic governance, […]

November 9, 2026: Last week, ISDP took part in Arbetsmarknadsdagen, a career fair organized by the Social Sciences Association at Stockholm University, meeting with students and sharing insights into our work, research areas, and internship opportunities. It was a great opportunity to introduce them to the work we do at ISDP. Many thanks to Stockholm […]

November 2, 2026: Yi-Chieh Chen, Research Fellow and Project Manager at ISDP’s Taiwan Center, was interviewed by Radio Taiwan International about the wealth inequality in Taiwan’s AI-driven economy. Listen to the interview here.

November 2, 2026: ISDP is opening the Stockholm Center for Arctic Policy and Governance (ARCPOL), a dedicated hub for research, dialogue, and policy exchange focused on the geopolitical, environmental, economic, and security developments shaping the Arctic. Along the lines of the established regional Centers of ISDP—such as the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs—ARCPOL […]

October 26, 2026: Genevieve Donnellon-May, Associated Research Fellow, was interviewed by BRICS TV on BRICS countries and circular economy. “China has made the greatest progress by introducing mandatory sorting of household waste into four categories with a system of fines in a number of cities, which partly explains the country’s high recycling rate. However, even […]

October 22, 2026: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA), delivered a keynote presentation on “Minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific” at an international conference titled “Small and Middle Power Strategies in the Indo-Pacific,” hosted by the Ludovika University of Public Service in Budapest, Hungary, on October 20, 2026. […]

October 20, 2026: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, participated in the Warsaw Security Forum 2026. Read more about the event here.

October 20, 2026: Melita Phachulia, Executive Assistant and Junior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Center for Research and Innovation Security, was quoted by The i Paper on the Russian threat to the Baltics. The Baltics have “long been a focus of Russian military planning, information operations, cyber activities and other forms of hybrid pressure”, said […]

October 20, 2026: The recording of the webinar “Research and Innovation Series (RIS) – Part XII: Australia’s Approach to Research and Innovation Security: Protecting Open Science and International Collaboration” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. In this webinar, Bart Hogeveen, Senior Fellow – Director Europe, at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), discussed Australia’s […]

Stockholm, October 16, 2026 — Strategic experts at the Third Stockholm Himalaya Forum today raised concerns about China’s transformation into an increasingly demanding, transactional, and strategically unpredictable actor.   Speaking at the Forum organized by the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) of the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), under the […]