Programme
Subject | Speaker | Title | Time |
Introductory remarks | Mats Johansson | Chairman and Founder of the Stockholm Free World Forum | 09.30 |
Security around the Baltic, 2013 | Artis Pabriks | Defence Minister, Latvia | 09.35 |
Pause | 10.30 | ||
The Baltic as a security complex |
Edward Lucas
Mike Winnerstig Anna Jardfelt Moderator: Katarina Tracz |
Editor of the International section, The Economist, London
Fellow at The Royal Swedish Academy of the War Sciences, Stockholm Director of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm Deputy Director of the Stockholm Free World Forum |
11.00 |
Lunch | 12.15 | ||
Regional security in the North |
Karlis Neretnieks
Charly Salonius- Pasternak Ståle Ulriksen Moderator: Svante Cornell |
Fellow at The Royal Swedish Academy of the War Sciences, Stockholm
Security policy analyst, FIIA, Helsinki Security policy analyst, NUPI, Oslo Director of the Institute for Security and Development Studies, Stockholm |
13.30 |
Pause | 14.30 | ||
The Importance of Gazprom for the Baltic Region |
Anders Åslund
Thomas Malmlöf Rolandas Krisciunas Moderator: Maria Eriksson |
Senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, Washington DC
Security policy analyst, FOI, Stockholm Vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania Editor-in-chief of Svensk Tidskrift and author of “Dubbelspelet”, a book on energy prices and politics in Sweden |
14.45 |
Pause | 15.45 | ||
Russia in the Baltic |
Jānis Kažociņš
Boris Nemtsov Moderator: Stig Fredrikson |
Former (2013) director of the Latvian Constitution Protection Bureau (SAB),Riga
Russian opposition leader, Moscow Journalist, foreign correspondent and author of the book Oligarken mot presidenten: tvekampen mellan Chodorkovskij och Putin |
16.00 |
Security cooperation around the Baltic |
Kurt Volker
Matthew Bryza Bruce Acker Moderator: Stefan Olsson |
Executive Director of the McCain Institute
for International Leadership, Washington DC
Head of the International Centre for Defence Studies, Tallinn Former US Defense Attaché to Sweden, Stockholm Director of the Stockholm Free World Forum |
16.45 |
Dinner | Scandic Hotel Hasselbacken | Invited guests only |
19.00 |