News & Media

June 28, 2018: Elliot Brennan was interviewed by La Croix about rohingya refugees. “Terrorist organizations around the word have been reaching out to aggrieved and often already alienated Rohingya for decades.”

June 25, 2018: ISDP organized a roundtable with a delegation of researchers from the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the China Tibetology Research Center. The discussion centered around the development of Tibet, the potential for constructive resolutions to Tibet-related contested political issues as well as the security implications […]

June 25, 2018: Gareth Jenkins was interviewed by the AFP about the Turkish election. “Ultimately Erdogan is going to have to choose between the US and Russia – and he will pay a price whichever he chooses.”

June 25, 2018: Suat Kınıklıoğlu was interviewed by Ahval News about the Turkish election. “İnce ran a superb campaign, though his communication strategy for election night was awful. It could have gone into a second round.”

June 23, 2018: Suat Kınıklıoğlu was interviewed by Ahval News about the elections results in Turkey. “Anadolu Agency is so biased that I do not trust it, to be honest with you. I do not trust the results that come from it. They are manipulative. At an early hour they put up a high result (for […]

June 22, 2018: S. Frederick Starr and Svante Cornell participated in the Central Asia-Mongolia-Caucasus-Afghanistan Regional Forum 2018 in Baku. Read more here.

June 21, 2018: ISDP said good bye to two Visiting Fellows from the Academy for Military Sciences, Sen. Col. Guo Qiucheng and Lt. Col. Fu Zhengnan who spent two and half months at our offices in Stockholm. The Institute also sent off and thanked Stephen Crowther, Intern at our Stockholm China Center between January-June 2018. […]

June 20, 2018: ISDP’s editor Oskar Gustafson organized a speaker training session within the ISDP Internship Program, to train ISDP’s interns in public speaking. This time around the audience got to listen to interesting presentations by Stephen Crowther and Alice Privey, interns at the ISDP Stockholm China Center and Stockholm Korea Center, respectively. The next […]

June 18, 2018: ISDP organized a roundtable on the outcome of the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, exchanging in-house perspectives with those of the Academy for Military Sciences, China, and the Swedish Parliament.

June 14, 2018: Mats Engman was interviewed on Radio Sweden’s Studio Ett (03:10) about the US-ROK military exercises being suspended. “Nordkorea ser det här [övningarna] som en förberedelse för att anfalla in i Nordkorea. Man vill få bort dem, och i potten ligger att amerikanerna skulle lämna helt. Det här är ett sätt [för Nordkorea] […]