The FRIDE (Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior, Spanish for "Foundation for International Relations and Foreign Dialogue") was an independent European think tank headquartered in Madrid and Brussels.
[3] The stated objective of the FRIDE was to expand the ideas on Europe's role in the international arena with special reference to multilateralism, democratic values, security and sustainable development.
[2] Its major study fields includes democracy, emerging powers, development cooperation, global governance, fragile states and energy security.
[8] The specialization of FRIDE was on crisis and EU foreign policy, Europe and the reshaped global order, changing approaches to security and the new Middle East.
[1] The FRIDE publications were policy briefs, opinion articles in the newspapers and working papers developed by its research team[12] and also, publishes books.