"Regime changes are rarely simple and, even when military defeat is decisive, are not automatically followed by peace and stability" writes Bates Gill, director of Swedish think-tank SIPRI.

"North Korea should divert its military spending into manufacturing goods and raising agricultural productivity for the benefits of its own people and find a way to export its way out of abject poverty" writes Jin Hong, South Korean Cultural attaché in Stockholm.

• Sweden the world's 10th largest arms exporter
• Korea's President: 'Thank you, people of Sweden

"A Swedish Wal-Mart and Nintendo should not be impossible", writes associate professor Nils Karlson, CEO of the Ratio Institute.

• Environmental disasters affect companies, too
• 'Difficult for small firms to attract new capital'

"Having to take more responsibility for damage to nature and the environment is unfamiliar to many businesses", writes Morten Thorsrud, head of Industrial Insurance at If.

• British town to heat pool with crematorium
• Swedish waste firm makes comeback – in China 

"Julian Assange’s supporters don’t know who to fear most: the Great Satan that is America or ‘feminazi’ Sweden", Nathalie Rothschild writes as the WikiLeaks boss is fighting extradition to Sweden.

• Assange case sparks rape 'grey zones' debate
• Swedish PM slams Julian Assange's claims 

"The Republic of Korea today, however, represents a country far different from what most Swedes might know or imagine", cultural attaché Jin Hong RIM writes ahead of a unique art show.

• ‘I hope Sweden will support Korea's endeavors'   • 'Thank you, people of Sweden'

Karl Rove’s help for Sweden as it and the Obama administration investigate Julian Assange could be the latest example of the adage, “Politics makes strange bedfellows”, Andrew Kreig writes.

• Partner at Swedish law firm counseling WikiLeaks boss'
accusers helped in CIA torture rendition
• 'Sweden aims to extradite Assange to US'

• Sweden climbs in 'doing business' ranking
• 'Swedish model' outranks 'American dream' 
• Sweden the most competitive EU nation  • 'Crisis? What Crisis,' Swedes say

• Karl Rove behind Sweden’s hunt for Assange?
• 'Julian Assange kicks kittens!'   • 'Sweden aims to extradite Assange to US'

"History has no other example to show of an empire falling to pieces with so little bloodshed and so few open conflicts as was the case when the Soviet Union split up and dissolved" Carl Bildt writes in an op-ed that this year marks 20 years since Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were able to regain their independence.

• How the Baltics Defied Predictions: Video
• Crisis over in the Baltics and Eastern Europe

"Swedish society itself is pursuing what was surely one of the aims of the failed Islamist militants: to instil a sense of insecurity and paranoia across society", Nathalie Rothschild writes.

• A nihilistic attack on the modern world
• Sweden shocked by terrorist bombing: BBC

COMMENT – "The idea that Sweden’s first suicide bombing was a logical consequence of Muslim oppression is mad", Nathalie Rothschild writes.

• US embassy in Stockholm boosts security
• Swedish tolerance threatened by terror attack
• Sweden shocked by terrorist bombing: BBC

"It is apparent that when Internet freedom conflicts with self-declared US national interests ... it immediately becomes a crime.", China Daily writes in an op-ed.

• Julian Assange granted bail in London
• British lawyers appealed Assange bail - not Swedish
• Time ignores voters push for Julian Assange
• Most Americans critical of WikiLeaks
• Michael Moore offers to bail out Julian Assange
• Assange blasts Visa, MasterCard and PayPal  • Assange to stay in jail

"I hope that Sweden and its people will support the Korean government’s efforts to make significant progress in the global premier forum", Korea's Ambassador in Stockholm writes ahead of the upcoming G-20 Summit in Seoul.

• Korea's President: 'Thank you, people of Sweden'

Comment: Swedes are enormously innovative – but the innovations will not have any value if the rest of the world won’t find them.

• China a beacon for foreign clean tech firms
• 'Climate bad boy' urges billions on clean tech
• Swedish green-tech firm cleans up water quality

Comment:  Sweden’s cultural elite is scaremongering about the far-right to avoid facing up to the collapse of social democracy.

"It is unacceptable that the Swedish citizen’s pension money goes to investments that lead to environmental degradation and human rights abuses", write leaders of NGOs Solidarity Sweden-Latin America and the Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation. 



OPINION "Every day we endure far too many unnecessary meetings that are poorly prepared and badly organised", writes Johan Fägerblad, managing director of Svenska Möten.

"Chimpanzees can teach human leaders to be more humane. And that lesson will contribute to increased productivity and profitability", write authors Tommy Lundberg and Ola Berggren.