Details

At the conference the following topics will be discussed:

- NATO politics for the summit in 2014

- Challenges for the armament's industry

- How to achieve the goals of the Common Security and Defence Policy after the summit in December 2013

The conference is organized by the Institute of Strategic Studies in Kraków in cooperation with:

NATO Headquarters,the Polish Institute of International Relations and the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation.

The participation is free of charge, please register at the Institute of Strategic Studies.

Telephone: (012) 421 62 50

E-mail: biuro@iss.krakow.pl

Defence Matters - new challenges of the NATO & EU security policy

XXI international conference on Euroatlantic Security

4th April 2014 Krakow, Poland

International Cultural Centre, Rynek Główny 25

The conference is organized in cooperation with:

NATO Headquarters,

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

and

Polish Institute of International Affairs

PROGRAMME

10.00 – 10.15 - Welcoming Remarks:

Anna Szymańska-Klich, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation Institute for Strategic Studies

10.15 – 11.00 - Opening Session:

Tomasz Siemoniak, Minister of National Defence

of the Republic of Poland

11.00 – 11.30 - Keynote: Alexander Vershbow, Deputy Secretary-General of the NATO

11.30 – 12.30 - Panel I: NATO’s challenges after 2014 summit

Bogdan Klich, Senator of the Republic of Poland, former Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Poland

Prof. Robert Kupiecki, Under-Secretary of State Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Poland

Etienne de Durand, Senior research fellow and Director of Security Studies Centre French Institute of International Relations

Ph.D. Patrick Keller, Coordinator Foreign and Security Policy, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin

Chairman: Ph.D. Marcin Zaborowski, Director Polish Institute of International Relations

12.30 – 12.45 - Coffee break

12.45 – 13.15 - Keynote: Claude–France Arnould, Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency

13.15 – 14.15 - Panel II: New challenges for defense industry between consolidation and competition

Diego Ruiz-Palmer, Special Advisor to the NATO Secretary General for Economics and Security, Emerging Security Challenges Division (tbc)

Douglas Stevenson, Director, Poland IAMD Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems

Krzysztof Trofiniak, Chairman of the Board, General Director

Huta Stalowa Wola S.A.

Olgierd Dziekoński, Secretary of State, Office of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland

Ph.D. Andrzej Karkoszka, Director Business Development PZL-Świdnik S.A. AgustaWestland in Poland

Chairman: Gen Mieczysław Bieniek, former Deputy Supreme NATO Allied Commander Transformation

14.15 – 14.45 - Coffee break

14.45 – 16.00 - Panel III European Security and Defence Policy after Summit in December 2013

Ph.D. Zbigniew Włosowicz, Deputy Head of National Security Bureau Republic of Poland

Prof. Andrew A. Michta, Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and M. W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College

Prof. Peter Viggo Jakobsen, Institute for Strategy Royal Danish Defense College

Prof. Artur Gruszczak, Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University

Marcin Terlikowski, Polish Institute of International Relations

Chairman: Prof. Roman Kuźniar, Institute of International Relations University of Warsaw

16.00 - Closing Remarks:

Bogdan Klich, Senator of the Republic of Poland, former Minister of National Defense RP