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Helsinki Security Forum 2025 Report

The international order continues to face rapid and disruptive change. Strategic competition is intensifying, emerging technologies are redrawing the boundaries of power, and traditional assumptions about security no longer hold. In this reality, Europe must act decisively on several fronts to shape and defend a European security order that reflects its own interests and values.

Against this backdrop, the Helsinki Security Forum (HSF) convenes to discuss how Europe – together with its allies – can assume a greater role in its own defence and security. Themes of the conference span a wide range of issues, from the security implications of artificial intelligence to the geopolitical role of China, and from nuclear deterrence to alternative futures for Europe.

In this HSF 2025 report, researchers from the Finnish Institute of International Affairs share their expert perspectives of the themes of Helsinki Security Forum 2025.

Read the HSF 2025 report here.

10.09.2025

Miten Suomi turvataan? Helsinki Security Forum -konferenssi käynnistyy avoimella keskustelutilaisuudella

Suomen turvallisuusympäristö monimutkaistuu. Venäjän strateginen voimapolitiikka, kansainvälisten riippuvuuksien hyödyntäminen valtapolitiikan välineinä sekä suurvaltojen kasvavat etupiirivaateet horjuttavat sääntöpohjaista järjestelmää. Samalla Yhdysvaltain…

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12.08.2025

Call for Applications: Youth Delegates for Helsinki Security Forum 2025

Are you a young professional interested in foreign and security policy? Would you be interested in taking part in Helsinki…

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04.06.2025

HSF 2025 asks ‘The Hour of Europe’: Can the old continent chart a new course for its future?

Helsinki Security Forum 2025 brings experts and decision-makers together to ponder the hard questions and explore Europe’s path forward.

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