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July 8, 2022: Lars Vargö, Head of the Stockholm Japan Center, was interviewed by the Swedish Sveriges Radio P1 on the Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe being shot during a speech. You can listen to the interview here (in Swedish).

July 8, 2022: In connection with President Xi Jinping’s visit to Hong Kong on July 1 this year, Professor Joseph Yu-shek Cheng, who is now based in New Zealand and a non-resident Senior Research Fellow at ISDP, was interviewed by Radio France Internationale (RFI). Here you can find a transcript of the interview, which was […]

July 7, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA), discusses NATO’s shift on the China challenge, Beijing’s fears of the Quad and India’s strategic autonomy in StratNew’s program ‘The Gist‘. Listen in here.

July 7, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA), participated in the Global Strategic Lab workshop at the Yonsei University (South Korea) (June 29) on China-India Relations and the Ukraine-Russia War discussing the implications for Indo-Pacific. You can find more information about the workshop here.

July 6, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA), spoke on “Seoul in India’s new middle order construct” at the Korean Association for International Studies (KAIS) conference on “Rethinking the State in the Era of Global Crisis and Transformation” (June 28-30, 2022).

July 6, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA), participated in the event “The Indo-Pacific as a Strategic Region for the EU and Member States”, organized by the Department of North American Studies at Charles University and the Embassy of the Korean Republic in Prague on June […]

July 5, 2022: The full recording of the webinar “Renewable Energy and Climate Action: The Future of Japan and Sweden Cooperation” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. Climate Change is one of the most pressing challenges in the world today, affecting every aspect of our planet. The effects are exceedingly visible across the globe – […]

July 5, 2022: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed by the Swedish Sveriges Radio P1 on NATO and the summit in Madrid. How was the mood and how is Sweden’s application progressing? You can listen to the interview here (in Swedish).

July 1, 2022: One of Japan’s most important writers, Yu Miri, author of the bestseller “Tokyo Ueno Station”, visited ISDP on June 23 for a seminar on the contemporary Japanese literature scene. The ISDP Japan Center arranged a week-long program, which also included an evening salon with the readers of the literary magazine Karavan and […]

July 1, 2022: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was quoted in The New York Times on the uneven support for Ukraine. “There it’s more a hard sell, with inflation, high energy prices and war fatigue, and will they really buy this geopolitical argument that we have to do this now or things will […]