News & Media

February 4, 2022: ISDP is pleased to announce that Lena Sundh has joined the research team as a Distinguished Fellow. Lena Sundh is a retired Swedish diplomat who has also served in the UN. She has i.a  been ambassador to Angola, Special Envoy of Sweden to the Africa Great Lakes region and counsellor for political […]

February 3, 2022: In light of the Winter Olympics starting soon in Beijing, ABF Stockholm is hosting a webinar on “China and human rights – what does the Beijing Winter Olympics entail?” on February 8. Torbjörn Lodén, the Head of ISDP’s China Center, will be joining the discussion. Find more information about the webinar on […]

February 2, 2022: Larissa Stünkel will participate in the virtual roundtable discussion “The Expanded Geopolitics of the Pacific Islands” (Monday, March 28, 2022) at the ISA 2022 Annual Convention in Nashville. Here you can find more information about the convention and its program.

February 1, 2022: Today, Niklas Swanström participates in ISCP Session of the Universal Peace Federation “Enlisting Global Cooperation on the Issue of the Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula” (15:00 – 16:30 CET). The purpose of the session is to begin to lay bare a vision of all the initial steps that will need to […]

January 30, 2022: Niklas Swanström was interviewed in Svenska Dagbladet on the recent developments in North Korea – Pyongyang has never before test-fired so many missiles in a single month. Read the full interview on Svenska Dagbladet’s website (in Swedish).

Every semester ISDP runs an internship program which is open to university students and recent graduates and that offers the interns work experience in an international environment, encourages them to write and publish with staff members, and shoulder progressive responsibilities within the organization.  Peter Adolfsson (ISDP’s Stockholm Japan Center), Elin Bergner (ISDP’s Stockholm Korea Center) […]

January 28, 2022: This episode of Japanpodden focuses on the Japanese yakuza. Listen in here. Language: Swedish

January 27, 2022: The full recording of the webinar “Genres of Translation of Swedish Literature in Taiwan: the Past, the Present and Predictions” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. Here you can find more information about the webinar and the speaker Teng-Chian Kuo.

January 25, 2022: Anna Wieslander, Chairman of the ISDP Board, was interviewed in the Financial Times on how the Ukraine crisis revives the Nato debate in Finland and Sweden. Read the full article on the Financial Time’s website.

January 22, 2022: Gareth Jenkins has been quoted in UrduPoint on why Putin and Zelenskyy are unlikely to hold a bilateral meeting in Turkey: “While I can see why Zelenskyy might be willing to accept Erdogan’s invitation, I don’t think that there is any prospect of Putin doing so. Erdogan’s invitation says more about Erdogan and his limited understanding of the world than […]