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PROGRAM

9:00 h Opening Keynote: Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Secretary General of NATO

09:30 - 11:00 h SESSION 1: WHERE DOES EUROPE’S SECURITY BEGIN AND END?

NATO’s post-cold war expansion to embrace 10 new members, mostly former Warsaw Pact countries, drew a line under the alliance’s original mission. What and where are the present threats to western society, and how do NATO planners believe Europe and its North American allies should respond to them? Aside from the ‘arc of instability’ along Europe’s eastern and southern flank, how far afield do European political leaders believe they should be prepared to go to underpin stability and enhance global security?

Moderator: Jamie Shea,Director of Policy Planning, Private Office, NATO

Søren Gade, Minister of Defence, Denmark

Ulrich Schlie, Director, Policy Planning and Advisory Staff, German Ministry of Defence

Julianne Smith, Deputy Director, Internationale Security Program, CSIS

Tomás Valásek, Acting Director General of the Defence Policy, International Relations and Legislation Department, Ministry of Defence, Slovakia

11:00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 SESSION 2: IS THE “GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS” INITIATIVE AN ADD-ON TO NATO’S “PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE”?

With 20 countries working increasingly closely with NATO in its “Partnership for Peace” program and on Mediterranean and Gulf cooperation, how would the Asian and Australasian countries, mentioned as possible members of a NATO “Global Partnership”, fit in with these existing relationships? What is likely to be the outcome of the Riga Summit and could global partnerships help NATO better address global challenges like energy infrastructure protection and maritime security? How could NATO further develop its relations with the UN and African Union to give its partnerships and operational engagements greater institutional support worldwide?

Keynote Address: Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Romania

Moderator: Nicole Gnesotto, Director, EU ISS

Karl Viktor Erjavec, Minister of Defence, Slovenia

Karl-Heinz Kamp, Security Policy Coordinator of KAS

Julian Lindley-French, Senior Scholar, Centre for Applied Policy, University of Munich

13:00 - 14:30 h Lunch

14:30 - 16:00 h SESSION 3: DO EUROPE AND THE US SEE EYE-TO-EYE ON NATO’S FUTURE?

NATO has acquired “boots on the ground” experience in Afghanistan, but what are the lessons still to be learned about combining military and non-military capabilities in NATO expeditionary operations, ranging from nation-building support to combating problems like drug trafficking? Some of NATO’s European allies are reticent about the idea of global partnerships extending to East Asia and the Pacific, reportedly on the grounds that these might dilute the transatlantic relationship and devalue Europe's role in the Alliance. But might not a more global role for NATO be to the advantage of the EU’s own defence and security initiatives? How far has transatlantic cooperation developed on operational matters and armaments requirements and how strong is the argument that a more global NATO would complement the European defence identity rather than overlap or compete with it?

Keynote Address: General James L.Jones, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO (t.b.c)

Moderator: Ronald Asmus, Director of the Transatlantic Centre, German Marshall Fund of the US

Larry Harrell, CEO of AGS Industries

Eckardt von Klaeden, Speaker for Foreign Policy of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group

Edgars Rinkevics, State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Latvia

Scott Harris, President Europe, Lockheed Martin

General Klaus Naumann, Former Chairman, NATO Military Committee & Former Chief of Defence, Germany

Stuart Seldowitz, Political Advisor, US Mission to NATO