Working paper: This paper looks at economic growth and its fundamental determinants in Russia over the last decades. It starts by showing that, contrary to the views of some political commentators,...

Today, Dagens Industri published a debate article highlighting the crucial role of Sweden’s municipalities in building a modern civil defence. Co-authored by representatives from MSB, leading...

Historian and bestselling author Johan Norberg joined CSSC to discuss lessons from history’s greatest civilizations and their relevance today.

Throughout 2022, the reduction in Russian gas imports to the EU and the resilience of European energy markets have been subject of significant public discourse and policy-making. Of particular concern...

Policy brief: As time passes and archives open, ever more topics in Russian military-economic history can be studied with primary sources. One such theme is the colossal evacuation of industrial...

In this brief, we report on the FREE network webinar on the state of vaccinations and the challenges ahead for opening up economies while containing the pandemic, held on June 22, 2021.

On 11 May, 2023, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Forum for Research on Eastern Europe: Climate and Environment (FREECE) invited four experts to the 2023 annual Energy...

Welcome to a seminar on Thursday, 5 March 2026, with Dr. Jonathan Foster, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of English, Stockholm University.

A newly published government review led by former Prime Minister Carl Bildt proposes sweeping changes to Sweden’s intelligence services in response to a shifting and increasingly complex global...

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