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On Saturday, 6 December, the final session of this year’s Stockholm Free World Forum’s (Frivärld) Foreign Policy Academy was held f0r 2025. The session focused on “The Defence of Sweden & Europe’s Future” and took place in Stockholm. The day ...

European security challenges are rapidly evolving, from rising geopolitical tensions to hybrid threats and energy dependencies, and the Nordic countries play a central role in securing Europe’s northern borders and strengthening NATO’s deterrence in the region. The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s ...

Hybrid war is also war. It blends political, economic, informational, and cyber tools, tests the resilience of democratic societies, eroding public trust, exploiting vulnerabilities, and probing the very foundations of European security. At a recent side event at the 2025 ...

On October 3, Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld) celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Foreign Policy Academy, one of Sweden’s leading programs for the next generation of foreign and security policy experts and decision-makers. The Foreign Policy Academy is a ...

On September 15, Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld), in cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, published Russia’s Hybrid War:The Northern Front. Bringing together leading experts from the Nordics, the Baltics, Germany, and Poland, this new book shows how countries on the northern ...

The abduction and forcible deportation of Ukrainian children is a central element of Russia’s war of aggression. Far from isolated abuses, these actions are part of a systematic, state-sponsored campaign aimed at erasing Ukraine’s national identity and European future. The ...

On April 22, Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld) and the Institute for International Security and Development Policy (ISDP) organized a roundtable discussion on “The New Axis of Disinformation.” Over the past decade, Western societies have been subject to an increasing ...

On 10-11 April, Stockholm Free World Forum’s Foreign Policy Academy travelled to Brussels for two intensive days of visits to a number of institutions in Brussels. During the trip, participants visited Sweden’s Permanent Representation to the European Union,  MEP Jörgen ...

  On March 31, the Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld) hosted a roundtable discussion on Nordic leadership and greater Nordic-Baltic-Polish cooperation. Discussion focused on how to further integrate the Nordic-Baltic region across sectors, and Poland’s emerging role as a regional ...

On March 18, Stockholm Free World Forum and the Norden Association held the seminar “The Nordics in NATO: Where are we headed?”. Over 70 participants attended the seminar. Oscar Jonsson, war studies and Russia researcher at the Swedish Defence University, ...