The Nordic states have for long made distinct choices regarding foreign and security policy principles. However, since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we are witnessing a convergence of the Nordic countries’ foreign and security policies. We argue that the challenging international context has led to heightened threat perceptions, triggering a reformulation of the foreign policy roles, held by the Nordic countries. Based on this assumption the article aims to analyse the convergence of the Nordic countries’ foreign and security policies by tracing changes in their foreign policy roles following Russia’s increasing aggressiveness. We trace the changes in the Nordic countries’ foreign policy roles through three dimensions: the consequences of a new security situation, threat perceptions, and perceptions of reduced manoeuvrability in international affairs. Our empirical analysis shed light on how all Nordic countries perceive an increasing threat to the multilateral rule-based order which have consequences for the roles of these states, how the threat perceptions of the Nordic states have been on high alert since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and finally how this have significantly impacted the Nordic foreign policy elites’ perception of their countries’ ability to manoeuvre and conduct autonomous foreign policy, motivating radical changes in the roles.