Events

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 ...

The relationship between Russia and the West is once again deep in crisis. A major reason is that Western leaders have too often believed or hoped that Russia sees the world as they do – but things look very different ...

Cyber-concerns have made a fulminant career in politics. Few issues have evolved so quickly from a specialist, sectoral concern, into an almost mainstream political and security preoccupation. The rise of cyber concerns has been accelerated by wide-spread suspicions of systematic ...

Over the last decade, Chinese foreign investment has greatly increased. At the same time, the Chinese government and Communist Party maintain significant influence over Chinese business, which has raised concerns that foreign investment by both private and state-owned Chinese companies has ...

On February 13th, the Stockholm Free World Forum in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung hosted the mini conference Information Warfare and the Weaponization of Democracy. The conference aimed to discuss how information warfare does play out in 2018, and how well prepared the key actors and stakeholders are ...