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The report “The Russian Information War in Lithuania” summarizes developments in Lithuania while illustrating how Russia is using soft power to pursue its interests. In the current situation, important points of attack are focused around the discrediting of Lithuania’s international ...

Mats Johansson, chairman of the Stockholm Free World Forum, and Ambassador Pauli Järvenpää of the ICDS in Tallinn have made a common effort to launch a new initiative; a joint Swedish-Finnish commission preparing for NATO membership. On June 4th, their article ...

On April 28th, The Stockholm fre World Forum (Frivärld) hosted the conference ”Security in Northern and Eastern Europe 2014″ in Stockholm. The aim of the conference was to discuss the security situation in Northern and Eastern Europe. The sessions focused ...

Stockholm Free World Forum in cooperation with the McCain Institute in Washington DC offers an outstanding volunteer opportunity for college students, graduate students, and graduates focusing on international relations who are pursuing a career in foreign policy or a related ...

In January 2014, ahead of the Olympic winter games in Sotchi, The Stockholm Free World Forum carried out an information campaign directed to athletes and journalists competing in and reporting from Sotchi. The aim of the campaign was to spread ...

Sweden and the Baltic countries are situated in the same geographical area in the north of Europe. However, the political perspectives on defence related issues differ between the countries. In November 2013, The Stockholm Free World Forum invited a group ...

In the summer of 1993, Foreign Affairs published  “Clash of Civilizations?” by Samuel P. Huntington. Few thinkers have provoked such criticism as Huntington did twenty years ago. Nevertheless, the critics did not succeed in dismissing his article as irrelevant. In ...

In Lahore, Pakistan, half of the families living in extreme poverty buy schooling from private actors even though they have access to free, public schools. In India, the picture looks the same. and in large parts of Africa, the private ...

The American foreign policy think tank Stratfor publishes an article from The Free World Forum, written by Major General Karlis Nerenieks. The Major General discuss how access to Swedish territory is essential for any NATO operation in the Baltic Sea ...

Media freedom in Europe is deteriorating. In eg. Russia, violence against journalists is flourishing and in the past three years, seven russian journalists have been murdered. But the situation is not only critical in eastern countries like Russia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine ...