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As the world welcomes 2023, ISDP invites its readers to a review of the year 2022 with 22 publications (in chronological order). 2022 was an eventful year in ISDP’s focus areas with heightened tensions and increased instability. The war in Ukraine changed the face of Eurasia and created global insecurity. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un […]

December 14, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in Bruegel‘s podcast ZhōngHuá Mundus. India has recently surpassed the United Kingdom to become the fifth largest economy in the world, standing directly behind the US, China, Japan and Germany. As its GDP growth is estimated to be […]

December 13, 2022: Gareth Jenkins, a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow with the Joint Center’s Silk Road Studies Program and Turkey Center at ISDP, was quoted in UrduPoint on how the U.S. is likely to ignore Turkey’s ground operation in northern Syria. “Turkey wants the U.S. completely out of Syria and has already seen how Washington prefers to appease Erdogan rather […]

December 9, 2022: The recording of the webinar “Post-Election Analysis of Taiwan’s 9-in-1 Local Elections 2022” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. On November 30, the Taiwan Studies Series Project at ISDP hosted an expert panel under its Taiwan Lecture Series to discuss various aspects of Taiwan’s local elections. The panelists analyzed the outcome […]

December 9, 2022: This episode of Japanpodden focuses on football and science in today’s Japan. Japanpodden is a Swedish-language podcast about everything related to Japan. The editors are Göran Edman, Hans Rhodiner, Lars Vargö, the Head of the ISDP Stockholm Japan Center, and Jon Thunqvist. Listen in here. Language: Swedish

December 7, 2022: The full recording of the webinar “Chinese Philosophers and Philosophy: Personal Reflections” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. Nicholas Bunnin critically explored his four decades of engagement with outstanding Chinese philosophers and philosophy students, focusing on the Philosophy Summer School in China, which he co-founded with Professor Qiu Renzong. Their joint […]

December 7, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, spoke at the International Symposium on Security Affairs organized by NIDS (International Institute for Defense Studies) in Tokyo on December 7, 2022. NIDS holds an open symposium annually, inviting Japanese and overseas experts on international security. This symposium aimed […]

December 7, 2022: The full recording of the webinar “Indonesian Presidency in G20” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. Indonesia as the host of the G20 Presidency in 2022 carried the spirit of recover together as the world is currently under pressure of multidimensional crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, there is a […]

December 7, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in the “RCAST Security Workshop on the Regional Security in the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific” organized by the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology Open Laboratory for Emergence Strategies (ROLES) of the University of Tokyo on […]

December 5, 2022: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Svenska Dagbladet on the surveillance in China. Surveillance cameras, apps, credit card control and internet censorship. China, under authoritarian leader Xi Jinping, keeps a tight rein on its people, summarizes Svenska Dagbladet. “Then they track credit cards, where the government can see what you […]