News & Media

March 10, 2025: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed by Dagens Nyheter about Sweden’s first year in NATO. Question marks are growing every day around developments. What can Europe do on its own, for itself and Ukraine, including nuclear deterrence? Will the US withdraw from NATO? Read the interview here (in Swedish).

March 6, 2025: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, spoke on the SVT program “Utrikesbyrån” about relations between the USA and Europe and an emerging world order. In this program, she speaks with Carl Bildt,Former Prime Minister of Sweden, and Sara Stenholm, USA-podden, Sveriges Radio. Rebecca Randhawa moderated the discussion.  You can watch the […]

March 5, 2025: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by AFP News on China’s defense spending rising by 7.2 percent in 2025. “As the geopolitical tension between China and the US increases, China cannot slow down its military expenditures,” said Niklas Swanström. You can find the interview here, for example.

March 3, 2025: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed in the SVT program Agenda about the new security landscape. President Trump moves closer to Russia and turns his back on Ukraine. What does the new security situation mean for Sweden and Europe? Watch the program here (in Swedish).

March 3, 2025: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed by Sveriges Radio on President Zelensky and President Trumps meeting and Russian reactions. The meeting between President Trump and President Zelensky of Ukraine at the White House turned into dramatic scenes and was canceled. The mineral agreement to be signed between the two […]

February 28, 2025: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Sveriges Radio on the topic of North Korea having stolen billions in cryptocurrency. Niklas Swanström says it’s a deliberate tactic the country has been doing for over 20 years. Listen to the interview here (in Swedish).

February 27, 2025: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, attended the NATO-IP4 Strategic Dialogue in Seoul co-organized by the Yonsei University and Adapt Institute in Slovakia with the support of NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division. Experts and scholars from South Korea, Japan, India, Europe, the USA, Australia, New […]

February 26, 2025: On February 19th, ISDP’s Korea Center co-hosted a workshop on work-life balance in the Nordics and South Korea through a gender lens with the Korea Women’s Development Institute (KWDI). The recordings of this event are now available for the public on ISDP’s YouTube channel. More information about the workshop is available here. […]

February 25, 2025: On February 19th, ISDP’s Korea Center co-hosted a workshop on work-life balance in the Nordics and South Korea through a gender lens with the Korea Women’s Development Institute (KWDI). The one-day event comprised three panels exploring the evolution of work-life balance in the Nordics and South Korea, as well as the impact […]

February 18, 2025: The recording of the virtual roundtable on Yizhou, Liuqiu and Taiwan in History – as part of the Taiwan Lecture Series – is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. Yizhou and Liuqiu were ancient islands east of China’s modern Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. They may be names unfamiliar to a broader audience. However, they are central to […]