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Last week, the Stockholm School of Economics welcomed Singapore's President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and the Swedish Royal Family during the state visit to Sweden. The visit featured a lecture on the changing global order and the signing of a new agreement between SSE and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. 

More than $1 trillion in private capital has left Russia since Putin became president the first time and a growing share is becoming harder to trace. A new policy brief by Torbjörn Becker shows how sanctions, frozen assets and weaker financial transparency are reshaping Russian money flows.

On November 10, the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics and the Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication at the Stockholm School of Economics will bring together journalists, researchers and financial experts to examine how cryptocurrency is used in illicit finance and how institutions can respond.

Can the Middle Corridor offer Europe a reliable alternative trade route to China? Freight volumes are rising, but major constraints remain. In a new FREE Network policy brief, SITE researcher Jesper Roine examines the corridor's potential, limitations, and implications for European trade policy.

War destroys infrastructure and human capital, but its economic consequences go much further. At a lecture hosted by the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) at the Stockholm School of Economics on September 24, economist Yuriy Gorodnichenko explored how conflict disrupts the allocation of resources, affecting productivity and long-term economic performance.

What went wrong with liberalism, and can the political center find its way forward? On September 28, historian and columnist Adrian Wooldridge joined the Stockholm School of Economics for a book talk exploring the history of liberalism, the rise of populism, and the challenges facing liberal democracy today.