Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On May 5, 2026, we welcome Nina Khairova to discuss how misinformation escalates into coordinated propaganda campaigns in digital environments, and what this implies for detecting manipulative information in the context of hybrid warfare. The seminar introduces a framework for AI-based misinformation detection and uses the Russian–Ukrainian war as a case study to illustrate why context-aware approaches are essential.

Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On May 12, 2026, we welcome Jan Christoph Steckel to discuss how household electricity price shocks shape democratic attitudes and party support in Germany during the 2022–2023 energy crisis, drawing on evidence from a four-wave panel survey and billing-system–driven variation.

Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On May 19, 2026, we welcome Inna Melnykovska to examine how geopolitical coercion reshapes corporate interest formation and business–state relations. Drawing on evidence from Ukrainian firms during Russia’s full-scale invasion, the talk shows how some businesses shift from rent-seeking and narrow commercial logics toward civic and security commitments - revealing when firms become strategic partners of the state rather than compliance targets.

The Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication (CSSC) and the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) invite you to an open lecture on cybersecurity on May 25 at the Stockholm School of Economics.

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The 8th edition of the NAERE workshop will be held in Stockholm on June 11-12, 2026. The workshop will be organized by the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and hosted at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE).

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