Events

Stockholm Free World Forum is organizing a breakfast seminar on Nordic-Baltic security cooperation. The Nordic-Baltic relationship is of great importance today, especially considering Sweden’s expected NATO membership. It is crucial for Sweden to increase its focus on strengthening defense and ...

Russia after the sanctions – what does the future look like? What significance have the international sanctions had on Russia and what does the economic situation look like going forward? Stockholm Free World Forum presents a new brief by Anders ...

Stockholm Free World Forum held a seminar to launch the report Taiwan Situation – Chinese Escalation, Risks and Deterrence. The report provides an overview of Taiwan’s situation as well as what Sweden and like-minded states can do so that China ...

Welcome to a seminar where senior fellow Patrik Oksanen presents Stockhom Free World Forum’s strategic analysis that is behind the recommendations made in the report This is how total defense should be strengthened before NATO membership and focuses on the ...

On May 18th, 2022, the Swedish and Finnish NATO ambassadors formally submitted their membership applications to the alliance. In doing so, they ended decades – in Sweden’s case, centuries – of military nonalignment and overlapping but varied security arrangements in ...

Paraphrasing the first line of Anna Karenina, former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves argues that while all successful countries have reformed alike, each unsuccessful country finds its own excuses. In a new report for Stockholm Free World Forum, Ilves offers ...

Across eastern Europe, citizens are demanding democracy. Frightened by this change in people’s moods, autocrats like Alexander Lukashenko are taking increasingly violent measures to suppress protests and to threaten the EU. Now, plans have to be made for the future ...

In December 2020, the European Commission first presented the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which deals with platform companies, competition and the rules that govern digital markets. There seems to be a consensus that reforms are needed, but not so much ...

The Baltic Sea region is one of the world’s most integrated and interconnected. It is defined both by shared history and common challenges that will shape its future. From cyber security risks and information threats, the Baltic Sea region encapsulates ...

In the recent years, the threat from propaganda and disinformation to open societies have received increasing attention. Several actors are purposefully trying to distort the open debate in Western democracies, and it seems to have an effect. What are the key ...