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The Russian invasion is not over, but there is reason to look ahead to the reconstruction of Ukraine. In a new book published by the Stockholm Free World Forum, two of the world’s leading experts on Eastern Europe, Anders Åslund ...

Gunnar Hökmark: Who came up with the idea that the European Union should celebrate 30 successful years of the internal market with decisive efforts to dismantle it? The future geopolitical strength of Europe relies on our competitiveness and ability to ...

In the new SFWF-brief “Turkish Quagmire: Why Turkey Blocks Sweden’s Nato Accession”, Halil Karaveli examines the Turkish reluctance to ratify the Swedish NATO application. He argues that the relevance of the upcoming election in Türkiye and Ankara’s wish to buy F16 ...

On Monday 5/12 Stockholm Free World Forum organized a meeting and discussion with the Belarusian human rights activist and opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. The meeting was held by Gunnar Hökmark, president of Stockholm Free World Forum. During the meeting, an ...

On December 1-2th, Stockholm Free World Forum in cooperation with the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm arranged the Future of the Free World Summit, which took place at Skåvsjöholm. The conference revolved around the question how the worlds liberal democracies are ...

In the forthcoming anthology “Stronger Together – Sweden and Finland on the Road Toward NATO”, launched in cooperation between Stockholm Free World Forum and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, writers from Sweden, Finland, and beyond explore how Sweden and Finland will adapt ...

Stronger together: In this episode the Security Council is gathered to discuss Sweden and Finland’s fast track to NATO membership. How did this seemingly over-night change in opinion over NATO come about? How will Sweden and Finland adopt to the ...

On February 24, 2022, the European security order was ruptured. Vladimir Putin’s decision to order a full-scale invasion of Ukraine has made the dividing line between autocracies and democracies even clearer, but it has also increased the need to analyze ...

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 ...

A Marshall Plan for Belarus ...