On 1 September 2026 Bishkek hosted seventeen heads of state and government at the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the twenty-sixth in its history, convened on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the organisation's founding. The host, Kyrgyzstan, which had just ended its year-long chairmanship, had a few weeks earlier been elected a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2027 and 2028, while in the same election Germany lost the seat reserved for the Western group.
Autor: Maciej Dachowski, Ewa Polak
Opublikowano: 04/09/2026
A few days before the first summit of the Carpathian Integration Initiative, scheduled for September 2026 in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, Warsaw still does not know whom it will send. Volodymyr Zelensky has invited representatives of seven states of the region to the summit, Poland among them, he is steering the project personally, some leaders have already confirmed their attendance and more than five hundred business representatives are expected on site, and yet Poland's decision on the level of its representation still has not been taken.
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 01/09/2026
Iran emerges from the war with Israel and the US strengthened, regardless of the costs it has incurred. Unless a permanent collapse in negotiations occurs, it can recover its losses very quickly, and given its potential, it has a chance of becoming one of the world's largest economies within a few years. Crucial in this context is not the nuclear issue, but the high-stakes game over the Strait of Hormuz.
Autor: Witold Repetowicz
Opublikowano: 26/08/2026
The Union Civil Protection Mechanism was created as a tool for fast, targeted assistance between neighbours in response to events that exceed a single state's capacity to respond – from fires, floods and earthquakes to industrial accidents, chemical contamination or man-made disasters. The last two decades, and especially the events of recent years – the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine – have tested it in ways its architects never anticipated: not as a single, closed-ended event, but as a prolonged, multidimensional crisis with no clear end point.
Autor: Ewa Polak
Opublikowano: 24/08/2026
In late March 2026, a month after the outbreak of the war with Iran, Volodymyr Zelensky toured Jeddah, Abu Dhabi, Doha and Amman in three days. With Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Jordan he signed defence cooperation agreements providing for joint investment, joint production and the sharing of experience and solutions in defence against missiles and unmanned aircraft.
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 20/08/2026
In recent months we have been witnessing a very significant shift in international relations. What is changing is the way states build their position in the international system. A growing number of middle powers no longer organise their entire strategy around a single centre, nor do they treat relations with competing great powers as mutually exclusive.
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 17/08/2026
The summit in Ankara will deliver contracts, memoranda, and letters of intent, yet it will not clarify what Europe lacks most acutely — its own answer to the question of the long-term direction of the transformation being undertaken. At the root of the contemporary identity crisis lies not a deficit of financial resources but the absence of a shared European strategic culture, which Ankara may throw into particularly sharp relief, proving that material rearmament is outpacing the ability to define directions for joint action.
Autor: Patryk Litwiński
Opublikowano: 06/07/2026
On June 25-26, the next edition of the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC 2026) will take place in Gdańsk. It is the world’s largest event dedicated to the reconstruction of Ukraine, bringing together politicians, business representatives, and financial institutions from dozens of countries. It will focus on five main areas: business, human resources/demographics, local governments and the European Union, as well as security and defense. The recovery of Ukraine does not merely mean the physical rebuilding of war damage. It can be divided into two dimensions: soft and hard reconstruction.
Autor: Michał Kujawski
Opublikowano: 17/06/2026
This is not the first time Western countries have turned their attention to Central Asia – the region was already the focus of external attention in the 19th century as the theatre of the Great Game, then following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and a further wave of interest arose after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Autor: Ewa Polak
Opublikowano: 04/05/2026
Poland faces a decision that shapes its long-term security architecture: whether the younger generation will become an active strategic asset for the state, or remain a group that is merely a target of public policies without having any real influence over their design.
Autor: Patryk Litwiński, Maciej Dachowski, Hanna Miśniakiewicz, Julia Oleszyńska
Opublikowano: 21/04/2026
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 17/04/2026
Autor: Maciej Dachowski, Ewelina Załuska
Opublikowano: 15/04/2026
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 06/03/2026
Despite continuing to frame itself in great-power terms, Russia is gradually losing the capacity to perform the systemic functions that for decades made it an indispensable actor in the international order.
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 12/02/2026
For Taiwan the last days of 2025 were characterised by yet another Chinese military drills around the island located 180-kilometers off the coast of mainland China. The drills have been conducted days after the announcement of $11bn U.S. weapons sale to Taiwan, one of the biggest weapon sales in Taiwan’s history.
Autor: Michał Malak
Opublikowano: 04/02/2026
The establishment of the so-called Board of Peace, proposed by the President of the United States Donald Trump, should be understood not as an episode linked solely to Gaza, but as a symptom of a deeper transformation of the international order [1]. For the first time since 1945, a key system-shaping actor is not attempting to reform existing security institutions, but is instead deliberately initiating a mechanism that competes with them.
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 20/01/2026
Negotiating the Same War. Russia’s Continuum, America’s Cycles, and Why Momentum Still Isn’t Change?
At the close of 2025, as the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year in full scale form, international attention once again turned to Florida. On 28 December 2025, President Volodymyr Zelensky met with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago.
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 15/01/2026
On 8 January 2026, the administration of Donald Trump announced the initiation of procedures to withdraw the United States from a range of international organisations, conventions, and treaties deemed contrary to U.S. national interests. While formally framed as an administrative and legal review of existing commitments, the decision carries significance far beyond its procedural form.
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 08/01/2026
As public debate in Poland increasingly focuses on the fact that Warsaw has been invited to participate in the G20 summit in 2026, an essential part of the context risks being overlooked.
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 08/01/2026
The Venezuelan moment: intervention without arbitration
Autor: Maciej Dachowski
Opublikowano: 05/01/2026
It is our pleasure to inform you that the Warsaw Security Forum (WSF) participated in the 2025 edition of the Doha Forum, one of the world’s leading platforms for global dialogue on security, diplomacy, and international cooperation.
Opublikowano: 16/12/2025
Autor: Karolina Pawlik & Agnieszka Grzegorzewska
Opublikowano: 25/09/2025
Paris, June 2025 – A high-level cross-party Polish parliamentary delegation visited Paris on June 17–18 to underscore Poland’s strategic commitment to strengthening bilateral ties with France and to seize the opportunity offered by France’s status as Partner Country of the 2025 Warsaw Security Forum.
Opublikowano: 23/06/2025
On May 7th, on the sidelines of the Warsaw Security Forum Public Dialogue, the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and the Casimir Pulaski Foundation—both marking their 20th anniversaries—co-hosted a high-level dinner focused on the future of Europe–U.S. relations and the transatlantic alliance.
Opublikowano: 08/05/2025
Yesterday (7 May 2025), the second edition of the Warsaw Security Forum’s Public Dialogue took place in Warsaw. Leading diplomats, public officials, representatives of major media outlets, and other notable personalities gathered under the auspices of Poland’s EU Council Presidency and the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland to reflect on where Europe is heading and what can be done to ensure it keeps moving in the right direction.
Opublikowano: 08/05/2025
