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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 […]

November 29, 2018: Niklas Swanström spoke on the topic of multilateral cooperation dialogues at the Northeast Asia Peace and Cooperation Forum 2018 in Seoul, hosted by the Sejong Institute and the Jeju Peace Institute and sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the ROK. Find the conference agenda here.

On November 13, 2018, ISDP welcomed Associate Professor Michito Tsuruoka from the Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University and Dr John Hemmings, Director of the Asia Studies Centre at the Henry Jackson Society and an Adjunct Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, for a forum discussion entitled “Meeting Shared Challenges – […]

November 29, 2018: Niklas Swanström gave a lecture on recent developments on the Korean Peninsula at the Uppsala Chapter of the Swedish Association of International Affairs. Find more information here.

November 27, 2018: Niklas Nilsson was interviewed by the Astana Times on Central Asian regional cooperation. “Cooperation needs to be gradual and flexible to involve all Central Asian states. Of course, the largest economies of the region – Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan – are indispensable in regional cooperation but models also need to fit smaller states […]

November 26, 2018: Niklas Nilsson participated in the interparliamentary conference “Astana – A Center of Global Integration, Security and Peace” in Astana, Kazakhstan. Dr. Nilsson presented ISDP’s recent research on regional cooperation in Central Asia, including the publication of the Silk Road Paper “Modernization and Regional Cooperation in Central Asia.”

November 23, 2018: Sangsoo Lee was interviewed by Izvestia (Russian) on dynamics of denuclearization talks. “The main problem in the current process of negotiations between the United States, which demands data on all objects, and the DPRK, which demands mitigation of sanctions, is who will be the first to yield.”