News & Media

January 7, 2025: How serious are the implications of South Korea’s political crisis? In-bum Chun, a Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, was interviewed by Al Jazeera. Watch the interview here.  

January 7, 2025: In-bum Chun, a Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, was interviewed in NZZ about the political situation in South Korea. What impact will this crisis have on the military and the morale of the soldiers? “The soldiers who were sent predominantly came from our special forces. These men are professionals, not conscripts. The […]

December 19, 2024: Elite troops or amateurs: Mats Engman, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center and Distinguished Military Fellow, discusses the North Korean soldiers in Russia in an interview with Omni. Read the interview here (in Swedish).

December 19, 2024: The recording of the webinar “Climate Crisis in Tibet – Part I: CCP’s Tibet Takeover: Wither Global Climate Action?” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. The Tibetan Plateau (also called the Roof of the World and the Third Pole) spans around 2.5 million square kilometers and is rich in biodiversity and […]

In 2024, the various programs and centers of the ISDP, as well as guest authors, published a considerable number of publications. Now at the end of the year, we would like to share a selected list of 24 publications by ISDP colleagues to look back on the eventful year. January: Asia Paper: Sino-Russian Relations, From […]

December 16, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Aftonbladet about the current situation in South Korea, focusing on the impeachment proceedings and the demonstrations in the country. “300 members of parliament have decided this. And then Yoon will be automatically removed from the presidency while the constitutional court decides. Then Prime Minister […]

December 13, 2024: Svante Cornell, ISDP’s Director, was interviewed on the John Batchelor Show. He spoke about “Central Asia: Where the uranium ore is found”. Listen to the interview here.

December 13, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed about China and supply chains on the Great Power Podcast. In this episode of GREAT POWER PODCAST, host Michael Sobolik speaks with Niklas Swanström about America’s supply chain dependencies on Beijing, related threats to national security, and what it would take to build out alternative […]

December 11, 2024: In-bum Chun, a Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, talked about the South Korea martial law fallout in the New York Post. “I think (military commanders) are very disappointed, some of them are feeling that they have been betrayed. It will take a lot of work to regain the trust of the military,” […]

December 11, 2024: Last week, on December 4, 2024, ISDP had the honor of hosting a conference in Stockholm in collaboration with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on the impact of Sino-Russian cooperation amidst the ongoing war in Ukraine. Since the war in Ukraine in February 2022 Russia has continued the war, despite […]