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Lecture on ‘Is Norden a region (in the security sense?)’ as the invited speaker at the Annual
Meeting of Dept VI (Security Policy) of the Swedish Royal Academy of War Sciences,
Stockholm.
Opening statement on European Security and risk assessment in a panel at the ‘Europa Forum
Luzern’ (annual major Swiss/German conference on Future Security Policy in Europe and
the Role of Switzerland), Lucerne, Switzerland.
Women In International Security (WIIS) major conference at Berlin on European Strategies
and the German EU-Presidency:(i) 26 April Lunch speech on “The Way Ahead for
Transatlantic Cooperation? Addressing Global challenges under the Germany EU
Presidency”.
Women In International Security (WIIS) major conference at Berlin on European Strategies
and the German EU-Presidency: (ii) 26 April opening speaker of the panel on ‘The
Perspectives-Challenges, Strategies & Approaches’.
Lecture on ‘Terrorism and Private Business’ at the annual alumni meeting of the Danish Chief
of Defence’s top-level Security Policy Course, Danish Defence College, outside
Copenhagen, Denmark.
Speech on ‘The European Union and Security Sector Reform’ at an international conference
on SSR organized by the Swedish National Defence College with the Geneva Center for
Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Stockholm.
Presentation on ‘The Challenges for the Nordic/Baltic region’ for members of the Swedish
Defence College’s annual Senior Course on Security Policy in a New Europe (SPNE 07),
Stockholm.
Speech on ‘Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-proliferation: Lessons of the Last Forty
Years’ at a public seminar organized by the Chinese Institute for International Studies and
China Arms Control and Disarmament Association, to mark the publication of the SIPRI
yearbook 2006 in Chinese, CIIS seminar hall Beijing.
Talk on ‘The EU as Empire—‘Good’ or ‘Evil’?’at the University of Helsinki’s conference on
‘Inside Globalization: Interpreting the New Order’, Network for European Studies,
Helsinki.
Talk on ‘The Shanghai Cooperation Organization as a regional security institution’ at an
international forum on ‘Regional Ballast or Global Balancer: the Future of The Shanghai
Cooperation Organization, organized by the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies,
Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Panel contribution on ’Folkrätten I konfliklösning och konflikthantering: framtida
utmaningar’ (in English) at the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s International Law
(Folkrättsdag) seminar on International Law, Conflict Resolution and Conflict
Management – in the presence of Minister Carl Bildt.
Guest Lecture on ‘Travel, Diplomacy and Globalization: A Diplomat’s Story’ as part of a
University of Stockholm MA course on ‘Travel and Responsibility’, Stockholm.
Talk on ‘The Finnish Foreign Policy, an outsider’s perspective’ to the Foreign Affairs
Committee of the Finnish Parliament (Eduskunta), on a fact-finding visit to Sweden,
Finnish Embassy Stockholm.