Events

Breakfast seminar on Nordic-Baltic security cooperation

January 31, 2024
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 ...

Seminar: TEMPERATURE GAUGE: THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY – NEITHER ROSES OR COLLAPSE

October 16, 2023
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 ...

Seminar: SITUATION TAIWAN – CHINESE ESCALATION, RISKS AND DETERRENCE

October 5, 2023
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 ...

LUNCH SEMINAR: TOTAL DEFENSE FOR NATO – SWEDEN’S STRATEGIC CHALLENGE AT SEA

August 25, 2023
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 ...

Pre-launch: Stronger Together – Sweden and Finland on the Road Toward NATO

September 28, 2022
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 ...

Webinar: Lessons for Belarus from Estonia

January 20, 2022
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 ...

Webinar: A Democratic Belarus’s Relations with the EU

January 14, 2022
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 ...

Webinar: A law for all seasons or for tomorrow’s digital markets?

December 7, 2021
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 ...

Bound Together – Book Launch and Seminar

October 5, 2021
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 ...

Propaganda toward Sweden: Analysing the tactics and narratives

December 3, 2019
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 ...