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September 23, 2022: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, will participate in the Nordic Ukraine Forum panel discussion on “Taiwan in the light of the Russian-Ukrainian war” today (17:00 – 18:30). About the event: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine with officially declared intention to conduct genocide of Ukrainians and eliminate by force its sovereignty and independence […]

September 23, 2022: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was quoted in The New York Times on the rise of the far-right Sweden Democrats. “In a way, their success is not so surprising, given that no government dealt really with the migration issue, which has been there for years, affecting society more and more, […]

September 23, 2022: Yesterday, Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in a roundtable discussion on the geopolitical fallouts of the recent Taiwan crisis organized by the Usanas Foundation. You can find more information about the event here.

September 19, 2022: Mats Engman, Distinguished Military Fellow, and Larissa Stünkel, Research Fellow, participated in the European Security Seminar – North (ESS-N) organized by the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. The seminar took place on September 12-16 at the Marshall Center campus in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Mats Engman delivered a presentation on China’s role […]

Last week, September 5-8, 2022, the ISDP Stockholm Korea Center welcomed the six Nordic journalists back to Stockholm for the third in-depth session on South Korea as part of the ISDP-KF Nordic Journalist Fellowship Program. The Fellows participated in several lectures during the week to expand on their first-hand experiences of various aspects of contemporary […]

September 12, 2022:  This episode of Japanpodden focuses on the current updates on the murder of Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe, issues such as the polarizing state funeral, as well as the influence of religions organization’s involved in Japanese politics such as the Unification Church. This week’s episode also include a special segment on […]

September 12, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in a panel discussion on ‘India’s Geo-Economic Policy in the Indo-Pacific’ organized by 9DashLine in conjunction with The Indo-Pacific Circle and The Council for Strategic Defense Research (New Delhi) on September 8, 2022. Here you can see the […]

September 5, 2022:  This episode of Japanpodden focuses on the assassination of Shinzo Abe and welcomes Jakob Edberg, GR Japan, for an interview. 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 […]

September 5, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in the 26th annual Forum 2000 Conference and discussed topics on the Russia-Ukraine War. The 26th annual Forum 2000 Conference, titled “Democracy’s Clear and Present Danger: How Do We Respond?”, was held in Prague from August 31 to […]

September 1, 2022: Larissa Stünkel, a Research Fellow at ISDP, was quoted in The Straits Times on Taiwan’s plan for a record-high defense budget. “The Tsai administration had to show resolve in the face of China continuously conducting drills and provocations in the Taiwan Strait,” explained Larissa Stünkel.  “Nancy Pelosi’s visit has arguably exacerbated tensionsand […]