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September 16th: Niklas Swanström was interviewed by Expressen TV on the underlying reasons on North Korea’s nuclear and missile development. Watch the video here or follow this link.

On September 15, 2017, ISDP welcomed a delegation from Le Shan Normal University (LSNU), China, for a roundtable discussion on regional and international topics, as well as opportunities for future cooperation between LSNU and ISDP. The meeting culminated in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, as well as the conferring of the title of […]

“The Uzbeks have been self-imposed isolationists and now are about opening up to their neighbors,” says Svante Cornell, director of the Silk Road Program at the Central Asia-Caucusus Institute, with offices in both Washington and Sweden. “Karimov was also putting in place a strategy for fuller engagement with the outside world, but he had a lot of PR problems. Not so with Mirziyoyev. At least on the rhetorical level, I’m pleasantly surprised with how he has implemented foreign policy,” Cornell says from a cell phone while driving through Sweden.

September 15, 2017: Niklas Swanström was interviewed in Expressen TV on North Korea’s September 15th missile test.

On September 11, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2375 (2017), which strengthens sanctions on North Korea in response to its nuclear test conducted on September 3. ISDP’s Korea Project answers some key questions on the implications of the latest sanctions.

On September 20th, ISDP’s Senior Fellow Walter Kegö will hold a seminar in Eskilstuna on the environmental effects of drug production. Read more here.

September 11, 2017: Niklas Swanström appeared in TV4 Nyhetsmorgon to discuss the toughened sanctions on North Korea.

September 6, 2017: Watch Niklas Swanström discuss the North Korean crisis in Expressen TV.

”Nordkoreaner tycker att de är under attack från omvärlden”

On August 29 to September 1, 2017, ISDP welcomed a delegation from the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), led by Vice President Fu Menzi. ISDP and CICIR formalized cooperation by signing a MoU in 2011, but had established relations several years earlier. This time, the delegation visited Sweden in order to discuss China-EU relations, the […]