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November 12, 2024: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was quoted by Al Jazeera on the impact of Donald Trump’s upcoming presidency on European defense spending. “Trump has been very clear that Europeans need to ramp up their defence spending even further. He wants a three percent of GDP pledge and we can expect […]

November 12, 2024: Can Trump rebuild friendship with Kim Jong-Un? Mats Engman, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center and Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, was interviewed by Dagens Nyheter on this topic. Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump have had a good relationship in the past. Soon, Donald Trump will return to the White House as […]

November 11, 2024: Mats Engman, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center and Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, was interviewed by the Danish newspaper Politiken on Europe’s reaction on North Korea participating in Russia’s war. “From the start of the war, Russia said it would cross a red line if NATO forces directly supported Ukraine. But […]

November 8, 2024: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was interviewed by both Sveriges Radio and Dagens Nyheter about how a quick peace in Ukraine could have disastrous consequences. Donald Trump has said he will resolve the Ukraine war in 24 hours if he is elected president. But now more than 100 security experts, […]

November 5, 2024: Brian Iselin, Senior Research Fellow and Senior Development and Partnership Liaison, was interviewed by Radio Taiwan International on Taiwan’s absence from Interpol as being a problem for everyone. He discusses the pressing issue of Taiwan’s exclusion from Interpol. As transnational crime networks become more sophisticated, the inability to share intelligence with Taiwan […]

November 5, 2024: Per Eklund, Senior Research Fellow at the Silk Road Studies Program, was interviewed by Göteborgs-Posten about the election in Georgia. A parliamentary election characterized by fear and not living up to democratic rules. This is according to Per Eklund, who led a delegation of election observers in Georgia. “Some fraud certainly took […]

November 5, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was quoted in several Swedish media on the latest developments regarding North Korean soldiers participating in the war in Russia. North Korean soldiers “cannon fodder for a week”, Hufvudstadsbladet via TT “Would not be surprised if she meets Putin”, about Choe Son-Hui in Russia, Svenska Dagbladet What […]

October 28, 2024: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was interviewed by Business Insider on the backdrop of China’s Xi Jinping negotiating a truce with India’s leader, Narendra Modi. “So definitely, this is a setback for the United States of America’s Indo-Pacific outlook, given the kind of rapprochement […]

October 28, 2024: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was quoted in Business Insider on the topic of North Korea solidifying ties with Russia, a change from its usual focus on China. “Officially, they might not really welcome it, they might see it as an alarming situation,” said […]

October 25, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, quoted in several Swedish media on the latest developments regarding North Korean soldiers participating in the war in Russia. “Now we are talking about a completely different escalation”, in “Now North Korea is practising live’ – why 12,000 troops could escalate the war in Ukraine”, Omni “‘Axis […]