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Stockholm Free World Forum at Almedalen 2015

June 22, 2015
This year the Stockholm Free World Forum (SFWF) will be represented at Almedalen through participation in a number of seminars and panel debates on foreign and security policy. On July 2 SFWF will hold the seminar “Towards a multipolar world? TTIP and ...

Emelie Roos becomes Stockholm Free World Forum’s newest fellow

June 17, 2015
Starting June 17, Emelie Roos, Fulbright scholar from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C., will be the newest fellow linked to the Stockholm Free World Forum’s (SFWF) fellowship program. Emelie has previously worked as a foreign policy ...

New book: The Sea of Peace? Increased Tensions Around the Baltic Sea

June 10, 2015
For more than two decades the Baltic Sea region has been considered a model of statesmanship. Well-functioning economies, an climate rich in innovation, and above all peace and stability have been the area’s defining characteristics. Then came the spring of 2014. ...

Stockholm Free World Forum personnel participate in transatlantic security conference

June 3, 2015
On June 2 the Stockholm Free World Forum’s (SFWF) chairman Mats Johansson, director Katarina Tracz and program director for business and trade Erik Brattberg took part in the conference “The Need for a Comprehensive Transatlantic Security Strategy”, organized by the ...

Foreign Policy Academy visits NATO Headquarters in Brussels

April 30, 2015
On April 29 students from the Stockholm Free World Forum’s (SFWF) Foreign Policy Academy took part in a day-long study visit at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels. The day’s program consisted of briefings given by NATO experts on foreign and defense ...

Stockholm Free World Forum announces new fellows Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein and Sara Norrevik

April 27, 2015
Beginning May 1 Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein, master student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., and Sara Norrevik, Ph.D. student in security policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, will be the first ...

Katarina Tracz to speak at seminar on Nordic-Baltic security in Washington, D.C.

April 9, 2015
On April 17, Katarina Tracz, director of the Stockholm Free World Forum, will participate in a panel discussion at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, in Washington, D.C. The theme of the event is Nordic- ...

Erik Brattberg joins the Stockholm Free World Forum

March 11, 2015
Starting 11 March 2015, Erik Brattberg will serve as Global Business and Trade Program Director at the Stockholm Free World Forum. Erik possesses broad experience in foreign policy analysis with a special focus on trade and strategic issues. At the ...

Edward Lucas on the murder of Boris Nemtsov

February 28, 2015
On February 28 Edward Lucas, Senior Vice President of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Senior Editor for the Economist and contributor to the Stockholm Free World Forum’s publications “Defend the Baltic Sea” and “Ukraine Evokes Opinions“, wrote about ...

In Memory of Boris Nemtsov: Stockholm Free World Forum re-releases “Ten Years With Putin”

February 28, 2015
On February 27, 2015, the Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was murdered in the streets of Moscow. He was a founder of the Russian opposition party Solidarity and one of the most visible and active critics of the Russian regime. Nemtsov ...