Stockholm University is a public research university in Stockholm,Sweden,founded as a college in 1878,with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties:law,humanities,social sciences,and natural sciences,it is one of the largest universities in Scandinavia.
Nils Daniel Carl Bildt is a Swedish politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He led the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999,appearing at its lead candidate in four general elections,before his appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt from 2006 to 2014. Bildt first entered the Riksdag in 1979,holding a seat until 2001. A member of the Bildt family,he is a great-great grandson of Baron Gillis Bildt,who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 1888 to 1889.
Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974,he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic,social and institutional phenomena." When his wife,Alva Myrdal,received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982,they became the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes,and the first and only to win independent of each other.
Walter Schwimmer is a former politician and diplomat from Austria. Was Secretary General of the Council of Europe from September 1,1999,to August 31,2004.
Richard Edgar Pipes was an American historian who specialized in Russian and Soviet history. Pipes was a frequent interviewee in the press on the matters of Soviet history and foreign affairs. His writings also appear in Commentary,The New York Times,and The Times Literary Supplement.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an international institute based in Stockholm. It was founded in 1966 and provides data,analysis and recommendations for armed conflict,military expenditure and arms trade as well as disarmament and arms control. The research is based on open sources and is directed to decision-makers,researchers,media and the interested public.
Adam Daniel Rotfeld is a Polish researcher,diplomat,and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 5 January 2005 until 31 October 2005 when a change of government took place. He served earlier as the deputy foreign minister. While in that position,Rotfeld established the Warsaw Reflection Group on the UN Reform and the Transformation of the Euro-Atlantic Security Institutions,with participation from leading US and European experts and politicians.
Klas Eklund is a Swedish economist and author.
Per Axel Ahlmark was a Swedish politician and writer. He was the leader of the Liberal People's Party from 1975 to 1978,and Minister for Employment and Deputy Prime Minister in the Swedish government from 1976 to 1978. He also served as a member of the Swedish parliament from 1967 to 1978.
Gunnar Edvard Heckscher was a prominent Swedish political scientist,academic,and conservative politician. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 1934 and soon became a docent in political science at Uppsala University. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s,he lectured in political science at both Uppsala University and Stockholm University College. He later held significant roles at the Stockholm School of Social Work,where he became rector in 1945 and professor of political science by 1948. In 1961,Heckscher became chairman of the National Organization of the Swedish Conservative Party,serving until 1965,and was a member of Sweden's Lower House of the Riksdag,representing the Right Party,where he advocated for Sweden's membership in the European Community.
Ash Amin,is a British academic known for his writing on urban and regional development,contemporary cultural change,progressive politics,and the collaborative economy. He holds the 1931 chair at the Department of Geography,University of Cambridge. Since September 2015 he has held the post of foreign secretary of the British Academy.
Per Anders Åslund is a Swedish economist and former Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is also a chairman of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE).
NATO is a military alliance of thirty-two European and North American countries that constitutes a system of collective defense. The process of joining the alliance is governed by Article 10 of the North Atlantic Treaty,which allows for the invitation of "other European States" only and by subsequent agreements. Countries wishing to join must meet certain requirements and complete a multi-step process involving political dialogue and military integration. The accession process is overseen by the North Atlantic Council,NATO's governing body. NATO was formed in 1949 with twelve founding members and has added new members ten times. The first additions were Greece and Turkey in 1952. In May 1955,West Germany joined NATO,which was one of the conditions agreed to as part of the end of the country's occupation by France,the United Kingdom,and the United States,prompting the Soviet Union to form its own collective security alliance later that month. Following the end of the Franco regime,newly democratic Spain chose to join NATO in 1982.
Oleg Ivanovich Mamayev was a Soviet oceanographer,professor,and head of the Oceanology Department at the Moscow State University.
William Elliott Butler is a jurist and educator,who holds or has held positions including the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law,Dickinson School of Law,Pennsylvania State University (2005-) and Professorial Research Associate,School of Oriental and African Studies,the University of London (2006-),and Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law in the University of London (2005-). He is an authority on the legal systems of Russia,other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS),and Mongolia. He was also involved in the fields of public and private international law. He is currently 83 years old and has written 4 books about the Russian Law.
Göran Ola Tunander is a research professor emeritus at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. He worked as a researcher at PRIO in the period 1987-2016. He is the son of Museum Director Ingemar Tunander and his first wife Gunvor. Tunander is married to the Chinese scholar Yao Xiaoling. He has written and edited 12 books and a number of articles on security politics,naval strategy,submarine operations,geopolitics,dual state,psychological operations (PSYOP) and Cold War history.
Markus Wiechel is a Swedish politician of the Sweden Democrats. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) of Sweden following the resignation of Lars Isovaara on 29 November 2012. He's currently serving as member for the Committee on Foreign Affairs as well as Deputy for the Committee on European Union Affairs. Wiechel is currently part of three international parliamentary delegations:NATO-PA as a deputy member,the OSCE-PA and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Wiechel is the chairman of the Swedish PACE-delegation and holds the seat as vice president of the Assembly.
Arkady Ivanovich Melua is the general director and editor-in-chief of the scientific publishing house,Humanistica.
Andreas Umland is a German political scientist studying contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history as well as regime transitions. He has published on the post-Soviet extreme right,municipal decentralization,European fascism,post-communist higher education,East European geopolitics,Ukrainian and Russian nationalism,the Donbas and Crimea conflicts,as well as the neighborhood and enlargement policies of the European Union. He is a Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv as well as a research fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm. He lives in Kyiv,and teaches as an Associate Professor of Politics at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 2005–2014,he was involved in the creation of a Master's program in German and European Studies administered jointly by the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Jena University.
Sverker Sörlin is a Swedish historian of ideas,professor of environmental history,and writer.
