News & Media

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, […]

March 2, 2018: Mats Engman was interviewed by Voice of America (Korean) about the role of the NNSC in US-ROK Joint Military Exercises. “The role of the NNSC in monitoring the joint military exercise is to observe, not to supervise.”

April 8, 2018: Elliot Brennan was interviewed by the Week in Asia about the new president of Myanmar and recent developments in the country. “A stronger, smarter, and healthier Myanmar would be good for all and would create room for a more nuanced debate on some of the thornier issues plaguing the country.”

April 2, 2018: Svante Cornell was interviewed by Civil.ge about US-Georgia cooperation. “One good news is that U.S.-Georgia security cooperation has been marked by the recent defense sales, namely Javelins, to Georgia. At the same time, it should be noted that if the bilateral cooperation is happening in the absence of either American or broader […]

March 17, 2018: Niklas Swanström was quoted in the New York Times about the DPRK foreign minsiter visiting Sweden. “[Sweden has] had some access and influence in North Korea […] comparative to other Western states, we have had a unique relationship with the North Korean government, due to our neutrality, due to our supervisory role […]

March 28, 2018: Park Hyeong Jung, Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul and Visiting Fellow at ISDP, talked to Outreach Coordinator Erik Isaksson about recent developments on the Korean Peninsula. Watch the video here, or below.

April 3, 2018: Sangsoo Lee was interviewed by Sisapress (Korean) about developments on the Korean Peninsula. “I am optimistic about the future inter-Korean relations, but more pessimistic about the upcoming nuclear deal between the US and DPRK.”