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March 14, 2022: Anna Wieslander, Chairman of the ISDP Board, spoke to the Washington Post about the topic of the NATO nonalignment of Finland and Sweden in the current situation of the war in the Ukraine. “In Sweden, defense was a low priority before the Ukraine war. Now, it’s the number one issue”, said Anna […]

March 7, 2022/ Updated March 9, 2022: China: China maintains a position of neutrality and refuses to condemn the ongoing Russian “special military operation” in Ukraine as an invasion. Citing the eastward expansion of US-led NATO and the West’s failure to take Russian security concerns into account as the root causes of the ongoing invasion […]

March 9, 2022: Sangsoo Lee, Head of ISDP’s Stockholm Korea Center, will participate as a speaker in a webinar on non-traditional security challenges related to North Korea organized by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on Thursday, March 10. The discussion will focus on the impacts of climate change. Here you can find more information […]

March 9, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of ISDP’s Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA), participates as speaker in the conference “A roadmap for Indo-Pacific Regional Cooperation in a Post-COVID-19 World Order” (March 10-11) organized by the Indian School of Business (ISB) and the American Consulate in Hyderabad. Jagannath Panda joins the digital […]

March 8, 2022: The full recording of ISDP’s Taiwan-Nordic Forum 2022 is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. As part of ISDP’s Taiwan Studies Project, the Institute hosted the Taiwan-Nordic Forum 2022. The forum brings together Nordic and Taiwanese scholars and experts who are distinguished figures in their respective fields, in an effort to better […]

March 8, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA) and Editor, participates in the “Asia & Europe Initiative – Setting Sail for the Indo-Pacific: the Search for an EU Pivot to Asia”, organized by the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). He will be a speaker at […]

March 7, 2022: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, will participate in the ECIPE webinar “The Ukrainian War and the Re-making of the Economic and Security Order” (March 09, 2022, 17:00 CET). Russia’s war against Ukraine is changing the fundamental principles of the security order in Europe and beyond. What type of world will emerge from […]

March 5, 2022: Anna Wieslander, Chairman of the ISDP Board, was interviewed by Deutsche Welle on the question of whether the war in Ukraine will lead Sweden and Finland to join NATO. “You have a pretty polarized situation among the parties. You would have the right-wing leaning parties who are pro-NATO, then Red-Green who are […]

March 4, 2022: Is Russia’s strategy going according to plan? Mats Engman, a Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, was interviewed on Sveriges Radio, Studio Ett, on this current topic. Here you can listen to the recording (in Swedish).

March 3, 2022: ISDP is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Jagannath Panda as the Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA), and Editor at the ISDP. He is a former fellow at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, and is the current […]