About Mildly Alarmed
...a weekly podcast about European security.
The brains behind Mildly Alarmed are Ukrainian journalist Anastasiia Lapatina and European security analysts Karen-Anna Eggen, Fabian Hoffman, and Minna Ålander.
Anastasiia is Ukraine Fellow at Lawfare. She writes a weekly newsletter about Ukraine called Yours Ukrainian. She is based in Kyiv.
Karen-Anna is a Senior Researcher and the Head of the Programme for Ukraine and Full-Spectrum Threats at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. She is based in Oslo.
Fabian is a Senior Research Fellow at the Programme for Ukraine and Full-Spectrum Threats at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. He is the author of the Missile Matters newsletter about defence, missile technology, and nuclear strategy. He is based in Oslo.
Minna is an analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. She’s also an Associate Fellow at Chatham House and a Non-Resident Fellow at CEPA. Minna also writes a newsletter about European security called Northern Flank Notes. She is based in Stockholm.
Every week, we analyze alarming–and occasionally hopeful–trends in European and global security.
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