About the Riga Security Forum
Riga Security Forum stands as a first-of-its-kind initiative in the Northern Europe region - challenging conventional formats and elevating strategic debate by forcing competing ideas into direct, structured confrontation.
The Forum will bring together a select group of senior decision-makers, strategists, economists, defence and military-industry leaders, and leading public intellectuals. It is designed not for visibility, but for substance - creating a high-trust environment for candid exchange, strategic reflection, and intellectual confrontation at the highest level. At its core are Oxford-style debates that place competing worldviews in direct opposition. These exchanges confront the defining questions shaping Europe and the transatlantic space - from the future of Europe’s economic and industrial model, to societal resilience, technological disruption, and the evolving nature of power and governance. The Forum will also address Europe’s central strategic dilemmas: its defence posture, the future of the transatlantic relationship, its capacity for geopolitical action, and the viability of a rules-based international order in an era increasingly defined by power politics.
Held in Riga, Latvia, on NATO’s eastern frontier, the Forum takes place in a context where questions of security, sovereignty, and deterrence are immediate and consequential. Here, the future of the West is not an abstraction, but a strategic reality being contested in real time.
