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June 19, 2024: The recording of the webinar “China’s Himalayan Hustle – Part II: Will Eco-Dominance Be China’s New War Front?” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. This webinar, therefore involving some of the finest experts on the subject, aims to examine the extent and impact of water diversification and environmental degradation in the […]

June 18, 2024: Mats Engman, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center and a Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, was interviewed by Svenska Dagbladet on Vladimir Putin’s visit to North Korea. “Of course, Putin is going to North Korea because he wants something out of it,” says Mats Engman. He believes that Putin’s visit to North […]

June 18, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by the Swedish news agency TT on North Korea currently being very self-assured. Gigantic loudspeakers, K-pop music on USB drives and flyers. Balloons filled with cigarette butts, rubbish and faeces. Niklas Swanström sees a risk that the propaganda war between North and South Korea escalates. […]

June, 2024: ISDP is pleased to announce the appointment of Ana Carolina De Oliveira Assis as a Project Coordinator at the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs. She is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil). Prior to joining ISDP, Ana Assis was a research intern at […]

June 14, 2024: ISDP is delighted to welcome Hsu Shao-Hung as a Guest Researcher at the Stockholm Taiwan Center during June-July 2024. Mr. Hsu Shao-Hung serves as an Officer of the Department of European Affairs within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan and has gained experience in the affairs with Baltic and Nordic states, […]

June 14, 2024: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in a panel on ‘Asian Powers and the Emerging Security Calculus in Europe post Ukraine’ at the International Centre for Defense and Security (ICDS) in Tallinn on June 7, 2024. This interaction was held under the Japan […]

June 14, 2024: The recording of the webinar “China’s Himalayan Hustle – Part I: Can China Achieve Infrastructural Hegemony?” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. This webinar organized by the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) involving China specialists from Europe, the United States, and South Asia examined the extent of […]

June 13, 2024: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, participated in a discussion about Baltic Sea region security and the transatlantic relationship organized by The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on June 5, 2024. Anna Wieslander was a speaker on the panel Cross-Atlantic Currents: 2024 elections […]

June 13, 2024: Yesterday, on June 12, ISDP had the great pleasure of organizing a meeting with former DEMSEC scholarship recipients under the OSCE Mission to Serbia. The scholars visited Stockholm as part of a study visit and were able to learn more about the ISDP and its scope of work, and exchange views on […]

June 11, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by TV4 about the intensified trash balloon conflict on the Korean Peninsula and Vladimir Putin’s visit to North Korea. The so-called ‘balloon war’ between North and South Korea has escalated further. On Sunday night, North Korea launched around 310 new balloons in response to South […]