At the Sweden Security & Competitiveness Summit 2026, hosted by the Center for Security and Resilience at SSE together with McKinsey, leaders from business, government, and the military gathered to discuss how innovation, education, and industrial capacity are becoming central to Sweden's deterrence strategy in a changing geopolitical landscape.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is already affecting Sweden. Around 2,000 ships are currently waiting in the Persian Gulf, delaying deliveries of oil, fertilizer, medicines, and industrial components. For Swedish households and companies, the effects are visible in rising energy costs, supply uncertainty, and higher prices.

In the post below, you’ll hear from Konstantin Yakunenko (Senior Lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) reflecting on his visit to SSE through the CIVICA Ukrainian Scholar Short Visits program.

On April 17, the Center for Security and Resilience (CfSR) at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) hosted a seminar on civil society resilience during war. We welcomed Noomi Weinryb and Zhanna Kravchenko from Södertörn University, who presented insights from their newly published book on the topic.

Two of the Nordic region's leading business schools, the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), have joined forces to launch a pioneering collaboration on security and resilience.

Would Swedish leadership teams be able to handle a crisis where decisions literally involve life and death? A new study of leadership teams in war-affected Ukraine and Israel suggests that the decisive factor is not the severity of the crisis, but how well organizations have prepared for it.

On Wednesday, March 26, the Center for Security and Resilience (CfSR) hosted another Preparedness Dialogue (Beredskapssamtal) at the Stockholm School of Economics. The discussion focused on home preparedness, shifting the perspective from “What should households do?” to “How do we build systems that make the right behavior easy?”

Disinformation and malign information influence operations can threaten Sweden’s financial stability – from individual savers to the entire economic system. A new research report from the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) shows how these threats operate on several levels and why individuals, companies, and public officials must strengthen their vigilance.

How can organizations collaborate to prepare for crises - and act decisively when one occurs? This question was at the center of the Academic Insights Breakfast Seminar hosted by the Center for Security and Resilience (CfSR) at the Stockholm School of Economics on March 4.

Sweden has pledged SEK 114 billion in support to Ukraine – its largest commitment to another country in modern times. At a seminar hosted by the European Parliament in Stockholm, Torbjörn Becker, Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), warned that Russia’s war economy is under mounting pressure and argued that sustained Western support can ultimately determine the outcome.