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April 4, 2023: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) on spy emails from North Korea. ISDP has received emails asking about North Korea’s missile launches. A recent warning was issued that emailers may be acting on behalf of the country’s intelligence services. Read the interview here (in Swedish).

April 4, 2023: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, talks in TVP World on China-India relations in the face of war in Ukraine. The relationship between New Delhi and Beijing is not among the easiest. Following the 1962 Sino-Indian war, a “Line of Actual Control” was drawn to […]

April 3, 2023: Bo-jiun Jing, Research Fellow, Asia Program and Stockholm China Center, was  quoted in Newsweek on what two Taiwan trips mean for the fate of the U.S.-China issue. “Tsai’s transit stops in New York and Los Angeles aim to demonstrate that her administration is capable of strengthening ties with like-minded democracies in the […]

March 28, 2023: Bo-jiun Jing, Research Fellow, Asia Program and Stockholm China Center, was quoted in the Guardian in an article titled “Taiwan caught between superpowers as rival leaders visit China and US”. Bo-jiun Jing said Ma saw closer ties with China as “a key precondition for Taiwan’s international space”. “Ma’s trip aims to demonstrate […]

March 28, 2023: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in a workshop titled ‘Regional Risks in East Asia in the Context of Sino-US Competition’ in Taipei co-organized by the National Chengchi University (Taipei), Ritsumeikan University (Japan), and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea) on March 24. […]

March 28, 2023: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in a panel on ‘Russia-India-China Trilateral in Eurasia’ organized by The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington DC on March 21. Experts from the USIP and other think tanks and Government agencies in the USA participated […]

March 27, 2023: This episode of Japanpodden focuses on Japan and disasters: Japanpodden has identified a number of threats to Japan. Natural disasters of course, but also the security situation, the rapidly aging population and not least the economy. Japanpodden is a Swedish-language podcast about everything related to Japan. The editors are Göran Edman, Hans […]

March 23, 2023: The recording of the third day of the 2023 Taiwan-Nordic Forum is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. As part of ISDP’s Taiwan Studies Project, the Institute hosted the Taiwan-Nordic Forum 2023. The forum brings together Nordic and Taiwanese scholars and experts who are distinguished figures in their respective fields, in an […]

March 22, 2023: The recording of the ISDP-Stockholm University Lecture “US-China Strategic Competition and South Korea’s Choice” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. What are the implications of the political, military, and technological developments deriving from the US-China strategic competition for the Yoon administration’s chances of establishing itself in the global order? What effect […]

March 21, 2023: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Svenska Dagbladet on South Korea’s growing arms exports against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. “Putin has directly warned South Korea: if they send weapons to Ukraine, Russia will increase military cooperation with North Korea. This is Russia’s way of influencing and trying […]