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January 31, 2023: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was quoted in the Financial Times on the current situation regarding NATO, Sweden, and Turkey. “The focus now is to calm down the situation. Swedish policymakers are still quite confident that Turkey will ratify . . . in the end, but they also realise that the road will continue […]

January 31, 2023: This episode of Japanpodden focuses on the population decline in Japan and and Japanese martial arts in Sweden. Japanpodden has met a Swedish champion, Mats Wahlqvist, who, after decades of training, has risen in the ranking system all the way to seventh place, which is very unusual outside Japan’s borders. Plus, increasingly […]

January 30, 2023: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, participates in Aftonbladet’s podcast Daily and talks about the latest developments in North Korea. In 2022, North Korea conducted a record number of missile tests. Its leader, Kim Jong-un, has announced major defense spending for the future. As a result, South Korea has responded by sharply increasing […]

January 26, 2023: This episode of Japanpodden focuses on why Tokyo wants people to move to the countryside. A new Japanese film hits cinemas. Master director Hirokazu Koreeda, who last made the award-winning Shoplifters, is hailed for ‘The Good Stars’. Also, the podcast focuses on the new relocation grant that Tokyo’s rulers are planning for […]

January 24, 2023: The recording of the webinar “Moscow and China-India Relations: Understanding the Complexities beyond Eurasia” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. The trilateral grouping of Russia, India and China (RIC) has for long been one of the most significant frameworks bringing together three of Eurasia’s biggest economies. Owing to its traditional partnership […]

January 16, 2023: 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 […]

January 5, 2023: Lars Vargö, Head of the Stockholm Japan Center, participates in a documentary aired on Sveriges Radio P3 about the death of Shinzo Abe and links to the Moon movement. On 8 July 2022, Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead in the middle of a campaign speech. An investigation reveals […]

January 3, 2023: Mats Engman, a Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, was interviewed by the Swedish Sveriges Radio on President Yoon’s proposal for more nuclear-related exercises with the U.S. Tensions on the Korean peninsula are likely to rise after South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol said the country is discussing increased cooperation regarding U.S. nuclear weapons. […]

December 29, 2022: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Dagens Nyheter about South Korea investing millions in defense: “South Korea needs to improve its capacity to act in order not to find itself in a vulnerable position. You can’t say ‘if South Korea hadn’t done this, it would have been fine’, but it’s […]

December 23, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated as a speaker in an online discussion on “How to manage China’s rise”, organized by the Centre for Asian Affairs at the University of Lodz. The discussion centered on the current context of the rising China with particular […]