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September 3, 2024: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, spoke at GLOBSEC 2024 in Prague about the lack of an EU defense strategy. She spoke on a distinguished panel discussing “Tomorrow’s Threats, Today’s Priorities: Setting the EU’s Defense Strategy”. One of her main points was that presently, the EU is lacking a defense strategy. […]

September 3, 2024: ISDP is pleased to announce the appointment of Tove Jalmerud as a Project Coordinator at the Stockholm Korea Center. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with double majors in Political Science and Chinese from Uppsala University, and is currently enrolled in its Political Science Master’s program, focusing on international politics. Ms. Jalmerud’s […]

August 30, 2024: ISDP is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the European Union Center in Taiwan on June 10, 2024, to promote future cooperation between the two institutes. Cooperation will be in the form of exchanging visiting fellows, conducting collaborative research, and holding research activities.

August 30, 2024: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was interviewed on PM Modi’s visit to Ukraine and Poland in LIGA.NET. You can find the whole article here (in Ukrainian).

August 20, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed about the sister who rules behind Kim Jong-Un in Aftonbladet’s podcast. Niklas Swanström talks about Kim Yo-Jong and whether she is as unpredictable as her brother. And could she be the one to take over power, should something happen to him? Listen to the podcast […]

August 20, 2024: The Astana Times about Svante Cornell’s (ISDP’s Director) recent feature article “Kazakhstan and Middle Powers in Greater Central Asia”. Middle power refers to a country that is not a superpower but still has significant influence and importance on the global stage. While the exact definition is still debated, middle powers can have […]

August 19, 2024: The third and fourth webinar recordings in the “China’s Himalayan Hustle” series are now available. Recording: China’s Himalayan Hustle – Part III: How China Is Upending the Himalayan Status Quo (August 15, 2024) Find out more about the webinar here. Recording: China’s Himalayan Hustle – Part IV: EU, India, and US – […]

August 15, 2024: Jagannath Panda, Head of ISDP’s Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was interviewed by Mirror Now, an Indian television channel, about Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stepping down. “There are a lot of implications for Japan post Kishida, the most important is alliance politics. Japan will be under pressure how […]

August 12, 2024: The webinar “China’s Himalayan Hustle – Part I: Can China Achieve Infrastructural Hegemony?”, organized by ISDP’s Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs on June 13, 2024, was covered by Asian News International (ANI). Read the summary in ANI here. Here, you can find the recording as well as the report […]

August 1, 2024: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in a panel on India at the 7th Global International Studies Conference of the World International Studies Committee (WISC) in Warsaw from 24-26 July 2024. The conference theme was International Relations in a World of Flux: Understanding […]