Carolina Vendil Pallin

Deputy Research Director of the Swedish Defence Research Agency

Dr Carolina Vendil Pallin heads the Russia Programme at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), as well as a research project on “Strategies in the Cyber Domain” at the FOI. Dr Vendil Pallin is currently focusing on Russian security policy, cyber affairs, and domestic politics. She holds a PhD from the LSE. Previous positions include Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs, where she headed the Research Programme “Russia and Its Neighbours,” and Expert Advisor for the Swedish Defence Commission. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences and sits on expert boards for RUCARR at Malmö University and the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs.

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Updated: May 5, 2015

Agenda

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back – Impact of the War in Ukraine on Caucasus

LMC 2024: Let Us Not Despair, But Act

Capabilities, Russia

Is the Russian Military Back in Shape?

LMC 2015

Articles

Moscow and Swedish NATO Accession

Russia’s geopolitical goals, its overall confrontation with the west, and its war against Ukraine will continue to be key to dimensioning Moscow’s military planning. Its rhetoric and threats are, however, what Russia has left in its arsenal to deter Sweden.

Carolina Vendil Pallin

LMC 2024: Let Us Not Despair, But Act