Dr Mike Winnerstig is the head of the security policy department at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) in Stockholm. He is also a non-resident fellow of the ICDS in Tallinn, Estonia. A former researcher at the University of Stockholm and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, he taught international relations theory and European security at the Estonian School of Diplomacy in Tallinn for several years.
When the Swedish government under Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson submitted the Swedish application for NATO membership to NATO HQ in…
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The Swedish general election of 9 September 2018 generated very unclear results, at least by that country’s standards.
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In some ways, the 2018 Swedish general parliamentary elections defied expectations. Despite intensive polling, few pollsters made even roughly correct…
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A subdued but still dramatic sign of the fundamentally changed security situation in the Baltic Sea region is about to…
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For many years, the Swedish Navy and the Swedish Air Force have been conducting exercises together with its Estonian, Latvian…
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Aurora 17, by far the biggest military exercise in Sweden since the early 1990s, has recently ended.
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At a visit of the Swedish defence minister, Peter Hultqvist, in the Pentagon in mid-May 2017, the U.S. secretary of…
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During the last few years, there has been a noticeable surge in bilateral and multilateral defence cooperation ventures among the…
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