Frida Stranne is an Associate Professor of Peace and Development Studies, writer, and public speaker focused on U.S. foreign policy and global power dynamics. Her work is driven by a long-standing interest in how political narratives, institutions, and strategic interests shape the world we live in, and how they influence our understanding of war, peace, and international order.

Over the past 25 years, she has spent extensive time in Washington, D.C., building a broad network within policy, research, and security circles. This long-term engagement has given her an insider’s perspective on how American foreign policy is formed in practice—through institutions, alliances, and informal power structures as much as through official doctrine. She has been a visiting scholar at American University in Washington, D.C., and is an affiliated researcher at the John Morton Center for North American Studies.

She is the author and co-author of several books on U.S. politics, including The Illusion of the American Peace, written with Trita Parsi, an internationally recognized foreign policy expert and Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute in Washington, D.C. 

Beyond academia, Stranne is an active and independent voice in public debate. She writes and comments regularly on international politics, with a particular focus on the United States, transatlantic relations, and the structural shifts toward a more multipolar world.

She is also the co-host of the podcast USA & Co, where she explores American politics and its global implications through in-depth conversations that move beyond the logic of daily headlines.

She recently launched a Substack, developing longer-form analyses of global power, political narratives, and the deeper structures shaping world politics.

Frida Stranne is a frequent lecturer and speaker, known for combining analytical depth with clarity. Her work is grounded in a simple but demanding premise: that understanding global politics requires not only knowledge, but the ability to critically examine the frameworks through which that knowledge is produced.

 A defining feature of her work is the effort to make complex geopolitical developments intelligible without reducing their complexity.