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January 15, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Yle about the Taiwanese election and China. “It is an extremely tight race, and there could definitely be a change of power.” Listen to the interview here (in Swedish).

January 11, 2024: The recording of the ISDP Taiwan Lecture Series: Analyzing Taiwan’s Three-way Presidential Election in 2024 is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. On January 13, 2024, Taiwanese voters will cast their ballots to elect the president, vice president, and legislators on the island. This election marks the first of over 40 national elections […]

January 9, 2024: ISDP is delighted to welcome Jeonghyeon Kim as a Visiting Fellow! Jeonghyeon Kim is a public official at the Social Education Cooperation Division of the National Institute for Unification Education, Ministry of Unification, in South Korea. During her visiting fellowship to ISDP, Ms. Kim is conducting research on unification policy to strengthen […]

January 8, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by P1 Sveriges Radio on the U.S. saying that Russia is using North Korean ballistic missiles in the war against Ukraine. The relationship between Russia and North Korea has strengthened, says Niklas Swanström in the interview. Listen to it here (in Swedish).

January 2, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was quoted in Swedish media on the return of North Korea’s football star. After years in the international football spotlight, North Korean player Han Kwan-Song disappeared seemingly without trace in Rome 2021. Now he is back in the North Korean national team – but his disappearance remains […]

January 2, 2024: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, is one of the signatories of an open letter from a range of prominent members of the Alphen Group to the U.S. Congress urging for more support to Ukraine. Key messages: The United States needs to accelerate the delivery of fighter aircraft and long-range artillery […]

December 2023: This episode of Japanpodden focuses on Japanese Whiskey and Christmas. Japanpodden is a Swedish-language podcast about everything related to Japan. The editors are Göran Edman, Hans Rhodiner, Lars Vargö, and Jon Thunqvist. Listen in here. Language: Swedish

December 18, 2023: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Expressen on Kim Jong-Un’s daughter Kim Ju-Ae. Recently, the daughter has been in the public eye a lot. “She has become the whole of North Korea’s daughter,” says Niklas Swanström. You can listen to the interview (in Swedish) here.

December 15, 2023: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in the SIPRI workshop titled “Geopolitics meets the local: A global to local stocktaking”. Experts from the USA, China, and different countries in Europe and Asia participated in the workshop. More details can be found here.

December 14, 2023: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in an online roundtable Conversation on “Charting the Security Landscape in the Indo-Pacific” organized by the Center for Security and Defense Research, New Delhi. You can find out more about the event here.