News & Media

September 19, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed in SVT about North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visiting a uranium facility. New propaganda photos show North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un touring a uranium facility. “It shows how far North Korea has come in its nuclear weapons program,” says Niklas Swanström. “They want to send […]

September 9, 2024: The Astana Times published an article about The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI) webinar on August 29, focusing on the rise of middle powers in Central Asia. “In spite of the acceleration of great power competition, the Central Asian states and the greater Central Asian states, including the Caucasus and Mongolia, have doubled […]

September 9, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, participated in the Global Dialogue Forum conference on “Strengthening the Afro Asian Dialogue on Climate Crisis: Reaching out to the North”. This conference took place on September 7, 2024, at The United Service Institution of India, New Delhi.

September 4, 2024: Why didn’t Mongolia arrest Vladimir Putin? Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, explains in Yle. “If Mongolia were to arrest Putin, the economic, political, and even military consequences would be disastrous. Russia has shown that it is willing to act militarily and that it is willing to do whatever it takes to maintain […]

September 3, 2024: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, spoke at GLOBSEC 2024 in Prague about the lack of an EU defense strategy. She spoke on a distinguished panel discussing “Tomorrow’s Threats, Today’s Priorities: Setting the EU’s Defense Strategy”. One of her main points was that presently, the EU is lacking a defense strategy. […]

September 3, 2024: ISDP is pleased to announce the appointment of Tove Jalmerud as a Project Coordinator at the Stockholm Korea Center. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with double majors in Political Science and Chinese from Uppsala University, and is currently enrolled in its Political Science Master’s program, focusing on international politics. Ms. Jalmerud’s […]

August 30, 2024: ISDP is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the European Union Center in Taiwan on June 10, 2024, to promote future cooperation between the two institutes. Cooperation will be in the form of exchanging visiting fellows, conducting collaborative research, and holding research activities.

August 30, 2024: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was interviewed on PM Modi’s visit to Ukraine and Poland in LIGA.NET. You can find the whole article here (in Ukrainian).

August 20, 2024: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed about the sister who rules behind Kim Jong-Un in Aftonbladet’s podcast. Niklas Swanström talks about Kim Yo-Jong and whether she is as unpredictable as her brother. And could she be the one to take over power, should something happen to him? Listen to the podcast […]

August 20, 2024: The Astana Times about Svante Cornell’s (ISDP’s Director) recent feature article “Kazakhstan and Middle Powers in Greater Central Asia”. Middle power refers to a country that is not a superpower but still has significant influence and importance on the global stage. While the exact definition is still debated, middle powers can have […]