Carolina Vendil Pallin

Deputy Research Director of the Swedish Defence Research Agency

Dr Carolina Vendil Pallin works in the Russia Programme and heads a research project on “Strategies in the Cyber Domain” at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Dr Vendil Pallin is currently focusing on Russian security policy, cyber affairs, and domestic politics. Prior to this, Dr Vendil Pallin was a Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute for International Affairs (SIIA), where she headed the Research Programme “Russia and Its Neighbours” (2006–09) and served as an Expert Advisor to 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 SIIA.

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Updated: April 9, 2026

Agenda

How to Make the NB8 the New Powerhouse of Europe?

LMC 2025

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

LMC 2024

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