News & Media

January 6, 2022: Niklas Swanström has been quoted in The Defense Post on China’s Xi Jinping orders the creation of elite troops to “win the war”. Read the full article on The Defense Post’s website.

January 7, 2022: Gareth Jenkins has been quoted in UrduPoint on why Turkey’s defense system is unlikely to compete with S-400, Patriot soon. Read the full article on UrdoPoint’s website.

January 6, 2022: Niklas Swanström was interviewed in Svenska Dagbladet on China’s new ambassador to Sweden, Cui Aimin. Here you can read the interview (in Swedish).

January 6, 2022: Julian Tucker wrote a chapter called “A brief history of international influence in Afghanistan” in the journal Orient from the German Orient-Institute. Read the first part of the introduction here and the full article in the issue Orient I 2022 (German Orient-Institute).

January 5, 2022: Sangsoo Lee has been quoted in the Financial Times on the topic how “South Korea forges ahead with end of war declaration despite US reservations”. Read the article here.

January 3, 2022: Fatoumata Diallo discusses the Xiong’an New Area in Hebei province, perhaps the most well-known and biggest smart city project that is currently in development in China, in the China Smart State Podcast by LeidenAsiaCentre. Listen to the episode here.

December 26, 2021: There are signs that an internal opposition is growing within China’s Communist Party, according to Torbjörn Lodén in an interview in Svenska Dagbladet. Here you can read the interview (in Swedish).

December 23, 2021: The full recording of the ISDP-KIIP Virtual Symposium on Climate Change is now available on ISDP’s YouTube Channel. Here you can find the recording for the first day and the second day of the webinar. ISDP and Kajima Institute of International Peace aimed to bring together expertise from both Japan and Sweden […]

December 21, 2021: Following the 2019 Hanoi Summit, Sangsoo Lee and Riccardo Villa discuss three key themes in North Korea’s rhetoric that give insight into how the country sees its relationship with the US and the possibility of resuming nuclear talks. Read the article here.

December 18, 2021: Sangsoo Lee was interviewed in the NK News on the following topic: “10 years of Kim Jong Un: What should Washington do now about North Korea?”. Read the article here.