Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld) invites you to an exclusive book talk and after-work reception with Elisabeth Braw, international security policy expert and author, on her new book Undersea War: The Battle to Control the Cables and Pipelines That Connect Our World (John Murray Press, 2026).
Elisabeth Braw is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Her work focuses particularly on hybrid threats, maritime security, and the changing security landscape – and how this affects European and transatlantic security.
The evening offers an opportunity to deepen your understanding of the ongoing and steadily escalating hybrid war – as well as a chance to network.
The conversation will be moderated by Gunnar Hökmark, Chair of Stockholm Free World Forum.
Date: Friday, 27 November
Time: 16:00–18:00. Doors open and mingling from 16:00. The conversation starts at approx. 16:30.
Location: Kungsgatan 60, Stockholm
RSVP: By 20 November
Places are limited, please await confirmation.
Secure your place: Cost: 300 SEK (includes book, sparkling wine, and light bites)
Fill out the form here. After the RSVP deadline, we will contact those offered a place with payment details.
About the book:
A hidden network sustains our world, but it’s no longer safe. Every button, house, nation and financial market depends on a massive, unseen web of cables across the ocean floor. Power cables and pipelines on the seafloor provide the world with energy. This is the newest battlefield where countries must protect their interests – and the functioning of daily life – while rivals test their limits. From the Baltic to the Pacific, sinister ruptures, mysterious vessels and submarine incursions mark a conflict already under way. With gripping accounts of maritime patrols and access to naval officers, undersea engineers and cable operators, Elisabeth Braw captures the fragility of an infrastructure that underpins everything from mortgages to cancer research and the global financial system to simple emails. The stakes are immense. Virtually all global internet traffic runs through these arteries, and energy runs in cables and pipelines alongside them – yet the more essential this network becomes, the more exposed it is.