Main page  On Bildt  New Economy  Foreign &  security policy  Europe  Euro  Balkans  Moderate Party  1994-1999  Government  1991-1994  Bookmarks  Veckobrev Foreign & security policy   Decline of Hard and Soft Powers At the 3rd Global Strategic Review of the International Institute of Strategic Studies I was asked to be the European opening speaker on the question whether we had managed to restora a viable strategic dialogure across the Atlantic. Here are my remarks as prepared for delivery. 17/9/2005 Read further  Minnesord över Bertil Lundin I såväl SvD som DN publicerades de minnesord som Jonas Hafström och jag skrev över Bertil Lundin i samband med hans bortgång. Det var ett försök att skildra icke bara en person utan också det tysta arbete som de som arbetar inom underrättelsetjänsten utför. 2/7/2005 Read further  Peaceful Rise of China? The so called peaceful rise of China is increasingly in focus in the global debate, be that on issues of trade, of tensions in East Asia or of wider security. I was invited to address a major conference in Chongqing in western China, and tried to point at some of the challenges ahead in these respects. 25/4/2005 Read further  Palestine Election Observation Together with former US President Jimmy Carter, I will Co-Chair an independent delegation that will monitor the elections in Palestine January 9. We will be in Palestine from January 5th to 11th with an international group of observers covering the different parts of the West Bank and Gaza. The group is organized by the US National Democratic Institute and the Carter Center. Link to press release in Washington. 1/1/2005 Read further  Four More Years Med 51 % mot 48 % blev det en imponerande seger f�r George Bush och det republikanska partiet i det amerikanska valet. F�r Expressen sammanfattade jag resultatet, bakgrunden och vad som sannolikt ligger framf�r oss. 4/11/2004 Read further  Other articles on Foreign & security policy : The Future of Multilateralism 21/8/2004 Read further  Peace & War in Post-Westphalian World 14/8/2004 Read further  Five Years of ESDP 10/8/2004 Read further  Dangers of Disintegrating Iraq 20/5/2004 Read further  The New Global Challenges 11/3/2004 Read further  Intelligence for a Better World 18/2/2004 Read further  Build States - not Nations 16/1/2004 Read further  To Win the Peace after the War 27/10/2003 Read further  The New Task of State Building 16/10/2003 Read further  Seven Lessons of Nation Building 7/5/2003 Read further  Sverige och Finland i Nya Europa 6/5/2003 Read further  Vad vill Sverige? 25/3/2003 Read further  Den Haltande Moralismens Decennier 23/3/2003 Read further  End the Decades of War in Iraq 28/1/2003 Read further  Pre-Emption and Weapons of Mass Destruction 13/1/2003 Read further  Fight Poverty - Not Patents 7/1/2003 Read further  Sanning f�r sv�r f�r Ekeus. 21/12/2002 Read further  The Post-Prague Agenda for NATO 22/11/2002 Read further  Towards a Clash of Civilizations? 7/11/2002 Read further  Svensk? S�kerhet? 24/10/2002 Read further  The New Security Agenda 16/10/2002 Read further  State Building and International Security 13/9/2002 Read further  N�ra Allians med USA 10/9/2002 Read further  Free Trade for Africa! 18/6/2002 Read further  Security for a New World 11/6/2002 Read further  SACLANT ODU Speech on Webcast 14/5/2002 Read further  Global Coalition Against Global Terrorism 13/5/2002 Read further  Finns en Nordisk Modell? 16/4/2002 Read further  O Du Heliga Enfald! 22/3/2002 Read further  Success during Years of Danger 20/3/2002 Read further  Debatt Ekeus KKrVA 19/3/2002 Read further  Kommentar Rad f�r Rad av Ekeus i Ub�tsfr�gan 18/3/2002 Read further  Create an "Axis of Good" 19/2/2002 Read further  To Win Peace - Not Only War 18/2/2002 Read further  A Dangerous New World 6/2/2002 Read further  Mer Kritik av Ekeus 7/1/2002 Read further  Ekeus El�ndiga Rapport 5/1/2002 Read further  Kofi Annan Nobel Lecture 11/12/2001 Read further  A Belated Defence of the Soviet Union 25/11/2001 Read further  F�rs�k till F�rsenat F�rsvar av Sovjet 24/11/2001 Read further  Oklart F�rs�k till Klarhet 15/11/2001 Read further  Baltic Security and NATO 9/11/2001 Read further  Gr�nsl�st �r B�ttre 6/11/2001 Read further  New Efforts for Peace 25/10/2001 Read further  Skyldigheten att F�rsvara 8/10/2001 Read further  United Nations against Terrorism 18/9/2001 Read further  Strategi mot Terrorismen 15/9/2001 Read further  Det kunde inte varit v�rre... 12/9/2001 Read further  Riyadh Speech on Global Challenges 30/5/2001 Read further  Om Sudan och Oljan och Freden 21/3/2001 Read further  St Andrews Lecture 1/12/2000 Read further  Sanningen om S�kerhetspolitiken 31/3/2000 Read further  �nskerepris Ub�tar 10/3/2000 Read further  Stim av ub�tsrykten 8/3/2000 Read further  Sveriges s�kerhet i det nya Europa 19/1/1998 Read further  Ub�tsdebatt 1995 14/2/1995 Read further  Ub�tsfr�gan - intr�destal i Krigsvetenskapsakademien 4/12/1990 Read further  Sunday  25/12/2005  Bildt Blog Comments In addition to this webpage, and the email letters ongoing since 1994, I have now started a blog as well. You find it at http://bildt.blogspot.com. At www.bildt.net you will continue to find articles, speeches and different documents. At the blog there will be the shorter and perhaps somewhat faster comments. And the e-letter continues to give at the least an attempt at analys. [email protected]