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Will Sweden's Elections Lead to NATO Membership?

September 6, 2018

The Swedish elections on September 9 could set the country on a path to joining NATO as a full member. Opinion polls do not show a clear winner in the elections. Neither the center-left Red-Green coalition government, that has run the country for the past four years, nor the main opposition center-right bloc has a commanding lead. However, if the four-party opposition bloc—consisting of the Conservatives, the Liberals, the Center Party, and the Christian Democrats—wins it will likely steer Sweden toward NATO membership.

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Russia's Defense Minister Threatens Response To Sweden and Finland Increasing Cooperation with NATO

July 27, 2018

Russia’s defense minister has said NATO’s increasing ties with Sweden and Finland are “worrying” and such actions force his nation to “take response measures.”
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Braw in Defense One: Let’s Talk about Food — and What Happens In a Crisis

May 24, 2018

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Nordenman Quoted in Business Insider on Sweden's Preparation for a Response to Conflict

May 24, 2018

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Braw in Defense One: How to Deal With Russian Information Warfare? Ask Sweden’s Subhunters

April 3, 2018

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Nordenman Quoted in DefenseNews on Sweden's Defense Policy

March 14, 2018

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On Security, the Nordics Should Cooperate, not Compete

March 5, 2018

When Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven meets US president Donald J. Trump for the first time on March 6, security and defense collaboration will likely be at the top of the agenda. A number of Nordic leaders have already met with Trump, and in their first meeting, he and Löfven have an opportunity to ensure that cooperation, not competition, sets the tone for future transatlantic security efforts between the United States and Nordic nations.

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Wieslander in ELN: Sweden and the CSDP: Keen on Security and Reluctant on Defence

January 26, 2018

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Securing Northern Europe – Bridging the Baltic Sea, North Atlantic and the Arctic

December 12, 2017

On December 12, 2017 the Atlantic Council’s Northern Europe Office and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung hosted a public conference in Stockholm to discuss the need to bridge perspectives and start forming a merged agenda to successfully face the security challenges in Northern Europe following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and aggression in Eastern Ukraine in 2014.

Keynote addresses were made by H.E. Peter Hultqvist, Defense Minister of Sweden; Minister Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden; and Ms. Tone Skogen, State Secretary, Ministry of Defense, Norway.

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NATO Chief says Allies Concerned about Russian Phone Jamming

October 30, 2017

NATO allies have raised concerns about what they call Russia's use of a kind of electronic warfare during military exercises last month that jammed some phone networks, alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday.
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