News & Media

March 3, 2025: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed in the SVT program Agenda about the new security landscape. President Trump moves closer to Russia and turns his back on Ukraine. What does the new security situation mean for Sweden and Europe? Watch the program here (in Swedish).

March 3, 2025: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed by Sveriges Radio on President Zelensky and President Trumps meeting and Russian reactions. The meeting between President Trump and President Zelensky of Ukraine at the White House turned into dramatic scenes and was canceled. The mineral agreement to be signed between the two […]

February 28, 2025: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Sveriges Radio on the topic of North Korea having stolen billions in cryptocurrency. Niklas Swanström says it’s a deliberate tactic the country has been doing for over 20 years. Listen to the interview here (in Swedish).

February 27, 2025: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, attended the NATO-IP4 Strategic Dialogue in Seoul co-organized by the Yonsei University and Adapt Institute in Slovakia with the support of NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division. Experts and scholars from South Korea, Japan, India, Europe, the USA, Australia, New […]

February 26, 2025: On February 19th, ISDP’s Korea Center co-hosted a workshop on work-life balance in the Nordics and South Korea through a gender lens with the Korea Women’s Development Institute (KWDI). The recordings of this event are now available for the public on ISDP’s YouTube channel. More information about the workshop is available here. […]

February 25, 2025: On February 19th, ISDP’s Korea Center co-hosted a workshop on work-life balance in the Nordics and South Korea through a gender lens with the Korea Women’s Development Institute (KWDI). The one-day event comprised three panels exploring the evolution of work-life balance in the Nordics and South Korea, as well as the impact […]

February 18, 2025: The recording of the virtual roundtable on Yizhou, Liuqiu and Taiwan in History – as part of the Taiwan Lecture Series – is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. Yizhou and Liuqiu were ancient islands east of China’s modern Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. They may be names unfamiliar to a broader audience. However, they are central to […]

February 17, 2025: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed on Sveriges Radio about the Munich Security Conference 2025 and Trump and Putin agreeing to start peace talks on Ukraine, without involving Europe in the negotiations. The interviews (in Swedish): One interview in Godmorgon Världen and one interview in Studio Ett (starting 59 […]

February 17, 2025: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed by SvD on the Munich Security Conference 2025. “The good news is that Europeans are now really being forced to make changes. These are difficult issues, but there is talk of our own army, and even nuclear weapons. It’s becoming more concrete,” says […]

February 17, 2025: In-bum Chun, a Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, speaks on Radio Free Asia about how North Korea’s increasingly accurate missiles are a cause for concern. In-bum Chun said that in his opinion, the improvements of the North Korean missiles “unfortunately signal a deeper involvement” by Pyongyang in the Ukrainian war. “That likely […]