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November 18, 2022: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed in Studio Ett, Sveriges Radio, on the missile strike in Poland and the consequences for NATO and Ukraine. She talks about the topic with Andreas Hörnedal from FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency. You can listen to the interview here (in Swedish).

November 17, 2022: Halil Karaveli was quoted in several Swedish media outlets on how the terrorist attack in Turkey may affect NATO negotiations. “On the other hand, I think it may be easier for the Swedish government to justify to Swedish public opinion why it is showing solidarity with Turkey. They are doing the right […]

November 16, 2022: The latest issue from the “India-Sweden Strategic Compass” is now available. The Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs publishes a bi-monthly newsletter, the ‘India-Sweden Strategic Compass’. The newsletter focuses on current affairs, highlighting Sweden and India relations, India-Nordic relations, EU-India relations, domestic developments in India, and relevant international updates. The latest […]

November 16, 2022: The full recording of the webinar “Hong Kong: a City of no Opposition” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. In the summer of 2020, nearly a year after a controversial extradition bill sparked the largest protest movement seen in the history of Hong Kong, China clamped down with the sudden introduction […]

November 15, 2022: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by the Swedish Expressen on the reports that China is preparing for war against Taiwan. “The military threat from China is much more real today than it has been in the past. That way, absolutely we have to take this more seriously,” explains Niklas Swanström. […]

November 11, 2022: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed in several Swedish media outlets about North Korea’s recent missile tests. North Korea intensifies its provocative weapons tests off the coast of South Korea and Japan. Last week,one of the missiles reportedly struck near South Korean waters. It is a provocation described as unusually large. […]

November 11, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated as a speaker at the session “Asia reacts to the war in Ukraine: Geopolitical implications for the region” at SIPRI’s 2022 Stockholm Security Conference. More information about the conference is available here.

November 7, 2022: Maj Gen (ret) Mats Engman, Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, participated in the 2022 Taipei Security Dialogue, hosted by the Institute for National Defence and Security Research-INDSR last week. This year’s theme of the dialogue was “China and the world in crisis” and Maj Gen(ret) Mats Engman gave a presentation on “European […]

November 4, 2022: The full recording of the webinar “The Mood in Taiwan under Pressure from China” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. The pressure from mainland China on Taiwan has reached dangerous levels in the recent months, especially since Senator Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, visited Taiwan. In a digital […]

November 2, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, delivered a lecture at the Department of Political Science, University of Belgrade, on “Minilateralism in Indian Foreign Policy: From BRICS to QUAD”. You can find an event report here.