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Disinformation campaigns 2.0
Propaganda and lying are as old as humanity itself and the post-print social media age has created a hyperactive environment of sharing information including lies. Disinformation and misinformation po
Disinformation Campaigns - Challenging Our Democracy
Online Interactive SessionJoin this seminar hosted by the University of Ottawa with experts who will provide insights into what the Next Generation of Disinformation Campaigns and actors will be. Disinf General John Allen, President, The Brookings InstitutionMr. Mikael Tofvesson, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB)Dr. Joel Finkelstein, NCRI, Princeton UniversityMr. Phil Gurski, uOttawa SET Program Director, President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting Ltd. Paul Goldenberg, Senior Fellow, Rutgers University Miller Center; Cardinal Point Strategies
War Policies and Migration Aspirations in Russia
Delmi Report 2024:11 Summary This report investigates how migration aspirations within the Russian population have evolved following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. It primarily fo
Interview with Erik Olin Wright
Earlier this spring, Erik Olin Wright came to Stockholm to talk at our research seminar. He spoke about pathways to a cooperative market economy. The day before, sociologist Stefan Svallfors took the
A monster in the making. On the euro crisis and democracy
What started off as a political project aimed at strengthening democracies has become an economic project in crisis that undermines democracy. That is how economist Matthias Matthijs describes the Eur
Lobbying for profits
If a social scientific observer of the mid-1980s had been presented with a line-up of rich Western countries – say Germany, Sweden, the UK, France, the US – and asked to guess which of these countrie
New initiative: Anxieties of Democracy
New year and new exciting projects! One of them is named Anxieties of Democracy, which will investigate in what ways representative democracy may be said to be in crisis, to explain why this is so, and
New perspectives on the privatization of Swedish welfare
If a social scientific observer of the mid-1980s had been presented with a line-up of rich Western countries – say Germany, Sweden, the UK, France, the US – and asked to guess which of these countriesextent come from for-profit providers.
Completed: Anxieties of democracy
Is representative democracy in crisis? If so, in what ways and how is it possible to strengthen it?
Symposium on basic income
The basic income proposal has received increasing attention in the past few years. Several ambitious basic income experiments are currently being planned in different parts of the world and the very f