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November 5, 2024: Brian Iselin, Senior Research Fellow and Senior Development and Partnership Liaison, was interviewed by Radio Taiwan International on Taiwan’s absence from Interpol as being a problem for everyone. He discusses the pressing issue of Taiwan’s exclusion from Interpol. As transnational crime networks become more sophisticated, the inability to share intelligence with Taiwan […]

November 5, 2024: Per Eklund, Senior Research Fellow at the Silk Road Studies Program, was interviewed by Göteborgs-Posten about the election in Georgia. A parliamentary election characterized by fear and not living up to democratic rules. This is according to Per Eklund, who led a delegation of election observers in Georgia. “Some fraud certainly took […]

November 5, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was quoted in several Swedish media on the latest developments regarding North Korean soldiers participating in the war in Russia. North Korean soldiers “cannon fodder for a week”, Hufvudstadsbladet via TT “Would not be surprised if she meets Putin”, about Choe Son-Hui in Russia, Svenska Dagbladet What […]

October 28, 2024: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was interviewed by Business Insider on the backdrop of China’s Xi Jinping negotiating a truce with India’s leader, Narendra Modi. “So definitely, this is a setback for the United States of America’s Indo-Pacific outlook, given the kind of rapprochement […]

October 28, 2024: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was quoted in Business Insider on the topic of North Korea solidifying ties with Russia, a change from its usual focus on China. “Officially, they might not really welcome it, they might see it as an alarming situation,” said […]

October 25, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, quoted in several Swedish media on the latest developments regarding North Korean soldiers participating in the war in Russia. “Now we are talking about a completely different escalation”, in “Now North Korea is practising live’ – why 12,000 troops could escalate the war in Ukraine”, Omni “‘Axis […]

October 22, 2024: ISDP is pleased to announce the appointment of Josephine Ørgaard Rasmussen as a Project Coordinator at the Stockholm Korea Center. Ms. Ørgaard Rasmussen graduated with a master’s degree from the University of Southern Denmark in International Security and Law. Through her master’s degree, she concentrated on the security situation surrounding the Korean […]

October 22, 2024: Mats Engman, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center and Distinguished Military Fellow, spoke to SVT Aktuellt about South Korea calling for North Korean soldiers to go home. North Korea has decided to assist Russia with 12,000 troops in the war against Ukraine. This is according to both South Korea and Ukraine, which […]

October 22, 2024: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, spoke to TVP World about how the BRICS Summit underscores the global divide. China and Russia aim to promote the BRICS as a credible (political) multipolar organization. Expanding BRICS serves the global agendas of China and Russia, and it […]

October 22, 2024: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was quoted about the BRICS summit in Kazan in abp. The article focuses on Pakistan and BRICS: “However, one of the key takeaways of the summit is likely to be India’s green signal to Pakistan’s long-pending bid for membership […]