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On December 13, 2018, ISDP held a forum on Japan’s expanding role in international affairs. The Institute was pleased to welcome Major General (ret.) Mats Engman, Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP and former Head of the Swedish Delegation to the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC) in the DMZ; Professor Emeritus Kazuhiko Kawasaki at Tokai University, […]

December 27, 2018: Athur Ding was interviewed by the South China Morning Post about recent developments in cross-strait relations. “Beijing is very unhappy to see the US is continuing arms sales to Taipei, as well as promoting more US-Taiwan official and military exchanges.”

December 21, 2018: Lars Vargö was interviewed by Sveriges Radio P4 Kalmar about a Sweden-based North Korean family being expelled to South Korea. “Sydkorea är ett modernt land och en modern demokrati och har varit så de senaste 20 åren, så det är inte ett mardrömsland man åker till utan ett öppet och fungerande land.”

December 17, 2018: ISDP is glad to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Institute of World Economics and Politics under the Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (IWEP). Through the Memorandum, the two organizations aim toward, among other activites, mutual exchange of academic information; conducting joint research […]

December 6, 2018: ISDP would like to extend its deepest thanks to Dr Jian Zhang, University of New South Wales Canberra for his time as a guest researcher with us in the fall of 2018. In addition to participating in ISDP’s public seminar series, Dr Zhang made valuable writing contributions to the Institute and has […]

On November 30, 2018, ISDP welcomed Professor Jae-Seung Lee, Jean Monnet Chair in the Division of International Studies and Director of Nordic-Benelux Center at Korea University, for a forum discussion titled “Peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula and the Role of the EU”. Professor Lee discussed about the contrasting views of the ongoing developments and the […]

On November 27, 2018, ISDP and the Israel Public Diplomacy Forum (IPD Forum) hosted a joint forum on the crisis in Syria and the ambitions there of Iran and Turkey. The forum featured Prof Eytan Gilboa of Bar-Ilan University, and Mr Halil Karaveli, Senior Research Fellow at ISDP. Roger Svensson, Senior Fellow at ISDP, moderated […]

December 3, 2018: Svante Cornell was interviewed by the Astana Times about Central Asian self-governance on the heels of the conference Astana – a Centre of Global Integration, Security and Peace. “Now, we are seeing closer informal coordination in important areas […] These include how to jointly approach the policies of great powers, how to […]

December 1, 2018: ISDP is pleased to welcome Dr Yang Kunfei, Associate Professor at the Center for West China Frontier Studies at Sichuan University, China, as a Visting Fellow at ISDP from December 2018-December 2019.

December 1, 2018: ISDP is pleased to welcome Shi Lan, Professor at the Central Asia Studies Institute, Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences as a Visting Fellow until December 2019. Prof Shi’s research focuses mainly on the study of Central Asia, and she has published numerous articles on related topics including Fergana in Central Asia: Islam […]