News & Media

May 7, 2018: Niklas Swanström and Sangsoo Lee gave presentations at a joint roundtable between ISDP and the Ilmin International Relations Institute, ROK, in Seoul. The topic of the roundtable was the role of UN agencies for Korean unification.

On April 23, 2018, ISDP hosted a forum at the Jernkontoret conference center in Stockholm, on combatting violent extremism. The event was held in coordination with the Moroccan Embassy in Stockholm, and featured a number of experts on counter-terrorism and Islamic extremism. The forum was moderated by Dr Niklas Swanström, Executive Director of ISDP. Introductory […]

April 26, 2018: Mats Engman was interviewed by Radio Sweden’s P1 Morgon about Kim Jong-un’s upcoming meeting with Moon Jae-in in Panmunjom. “Det förefaller som att man har en ambition att komma bort från vapenskramlet som har karaktäriserat den senaste tiden, och att man är beslutsamma att hitta en väg som leder mot avspänning.”

April 26, 2018: Niklas Swanström was interviewed by Radio Sweden about the summit between Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un. “Det är klart att den frågan kommer att hamna på bordet, ganska tidigt. Sen är det ett problem här. Hur ska man göra det här, i vilket steg ska en sådan här normalisering av relationerna komma […]

April 19, 2018: Svante Cornell, S. Frederick Starr and Julian Tucker’s new Silk Road Paper on secularism in Kazakhstan was cited in the Astana Times. “As the survey shows, religion has a prominent place in present-day Kazakh society, but believers stand in opposition to political religious expression. Only 10 percent of the nation’s Muslims support Sharia […]

April 18, 2018: Niklas Swanström was interviewed by Radio Sweden about the role China can play on the Korean Peninsula. “Man har det ekonomiska inflytandet, men det politiska inflytandet är rätt begränsat. Vi har nu en kinesisk toppdiplomat som åker fem dagar till Sydkorea för att prata om Koreahalvön, och han är nu vägrad inträde […]

For those who have applied for our internships for the fall semester of this year: please bear with us as we are currently going through applications and shortlisting. Will take a little bit more time!

April 13-14: Together with the European Japan Experts Association (EJEA), ISDP was proud to organize the conference “Integration and Disintegration in the Japanese Vision for Society 5.0: A Model for an Open Society in Europe?”. The conference focused on digitalization and ISDP’s Stockholm Japan Center participated with speeches and and a workshop contribution. For the […]

April 9, 2018: Niklas Swanström participated in a panel discussion on North Korea at Söderberg och Partners.

April 9, 2018: Gareth Jenkins was interviewed by the Seattle Times about Syrian refugees in Turkey. “There are younger generations who are starting their lives here, some who were born as refugees […] You would need a lot of things [to happen] in Syria before people can go back […] The younger generations may stay, […]