Events

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 ...

The Arctic region has long been considered a place of low tension, partially isolated from great power struggle. However, with the melting of the ice caps, and the rise in geopolitical tensions, the Arctic region has become an increasingly politicised ...

Latvian PM Dr. Krišjānis Kariņš spoke at the Stockholm Free World Forum on June 27. Sweden and Latvia share a common history, interrupted, in Kariņš words, by a “50 year break” of Soviet occupation. Kariņš spoke about the Russian threat ...

In 1979, China and the US, established diplomatic relations and the following decades China began to open up their economy. For a long period of time, the China – US relations prospered. Increased ties and gained market access appeared to ...

Cyber capabilities have been a crucial part of China’s rise in international politics, where cyber espionage have received the most attention so far. These hacks have aided Chinese industry as well as technological development in key areas of military and ...

With increased economic strength, China is taking on a more visible role in global affairs. China’s infrastructure ambitions are manifested globally in its Belt and Road Initiative and in Europe through bilateral deals as well as the 16+1 cooperation format ...

Western states have been notoriously bad and unwilling in countering Russian strategy after its reassertion in the 2000s. Today, the US has acknowledged in their military doctrine that long-term strategic competition against Russia and China is their key priority. Likewise, ...

In 2009, Sergei Magnitsky was murdered in a Russian prison after exposing one of the largest fraud’s in the country’s history. The fraud concerned the takeover of Bill Browder’s investment fund Hermitage, which Magnitsky was the lawyer of. During the ...

While the transatlantic partnership has been a cornerstone for European security for decades, relying on the United States and NATO as the institutionalization of that partnership, President Trump’s criticism of NATO and its European allies has posed questions of where ...