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GLOBSEC 2010

DATE: SEPTEMBER 13 – 14, 2010

1ST DAY – MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

VENUE: HISTORICAL BUILDING OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC, ŽUPNÉ NÁMESTIE 12, BRATISLAVA

12:45 – 13:00 OFFICIAL OPENING

AMB. (RET.) RASTISLAV KÁČER, President of the Slovak Atlantic Commission

13:00 – 14:30 PANEL 1: GLOBAL AMBITIONS OF POST-LISBON EUROPE: DREAMS OR REALITY?

CHAIRMAN: PAVOL DEMEŠ, Director of Bratislava Office, German Marshall Fund

of the United States, Bratislava

MILAN JEŽOVICA, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic

STEVEN EVERTS, Cabinet of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign

Affairs and Security Policy, Brussels

DOMINIQUE DAVID, Executive Vice-President, Institut française des

relations internationals, Paris

MARCUS EDERER, Head, Policy Planning, Federal Foreign Office of Germany, Berlin

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:30 PANEL 2: WORLD AFTER THE CRISIS: CONSEQUENCES FOR GLOBAL

SECURITY AND POWER BALANCE

CHAIRMAN: PHILIP STEPHENS, Associate Editor, Financial Times, London

CAMILLE GRAND, Director, Foundation pour la recherche stratégique, Paris

BRIGITA SCHMÖGNEROVÁ, Vice President, Environment, Procurement and

Administration, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London

AMB. (RET.) JOHN C. KORNBLUM, Senior Counsellor, Noerr LLP, Berlin

MIRIAM L. CAMPANELLA, Associate Professor, IPE University of Turin, Former Advisor

to the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance, Turin

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:30 PANEL 3: AFGHANISTAN AT CROSSROADS: SUCCESS OR VICTORY?

CHAIRMAN: STEPHEN FLANAGAN, Senior Vice President and Henry A. Kissinger Chair,

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.

AMB. FRANCESC VENDRELL, Former Special Representative of the EU for Afghanistan,

Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University

JENNES DE MOL, Director of the Provincial Reconstruction Team, Civilian

Commander of Task Force Uruzgan

ABDUL JALIL GHAFOORY, Media and Public Relations Officer, Embassy of

Afghanistan in the USA, Washington, D.C.

SIR SHERARD LOUIS COWPER-COLES KCMG LVO, Former Special Representative of the UK Foreign Secretary to Afghanistan and Pakistan, London

19:00 EVENING RECEPTION

21:00 NIGHT OWL SESSION 1: HOW WILL EU MANAGE POST-DAYTON BOSNIA?

CHAIRMAN: MILAN NIČ, Deputy Director, Office of the State Secretary, Ministry

of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic

AMB. ŠTEFAN FÜLE, Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy,

European Commission, Brussels

MIROSLAV LAJČÁK, Former High Representative and EU Special Representative

in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Former Slovak Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bratislava

IVAN VEJVODA, Executive Director, Balkan Trust for Democracy, The German

Marshall Fund of the United States, Belgrade

21:00 NIGHT OWL SESSION 2: REGIONAL SECURITY INTEGRATION: NORDIC AND VISEGRAD EXPERIENCE

CO-ORGANIZED BY THE INSTITUTE OF EUROPEAN STUDIES AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, COMENIUS UNIVERSITY

CHAIRMAN: JOZEF BÁTORA, Associate Professor, Institute of European Studies

and International Relations, Comenius University, Bratislava

RÓBERT ONDREJCSÁK, State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of the

Slovak Republic

ESPEN BARTH EIDE, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway

AMB. ISTVÁN GYARMATI, President and CEO, International Centre for Democratic

Transition, Budapest

BJÖRN LYRVALL, Director-General for Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

of the Kingdom of Sweden, Stockholm

2ND DAY – TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

VENUE: HISTORICAL BUILDING OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC, ŽUPNÉ NÁMESTIE 12, BRATISLAVA

09:30 – 11:00 PANEL 4: EASTERN EUROPE AND EASTERN PARTNERSHIP: MUTUAL EXPECTATIONS

CHAIRMAN: BALÁZS JARÁBIK, Country Representative for Belarus and Ukraine, PACT;

Associate Fellow, FRIDE, Kyiv

H.E. MR. IURIE LEANCA, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and

European Integration of the Republic of Moldova

H.E. MR. KONSTYANTYN GRYSHCHENKO, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

AMB. ŠTEFAN FÜLE, Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy,

European Commission, Brussels

s Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International

Economics, Washington, D.C.

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 13:00 PANEL 5: THE “VISEGRAD FOUR”: ENERGIZED

CO-ORGANIZED BY THE JAGELLO 2000 ASSOCIATION, HUNGARIAN ATLANTIC COUNCIL AND THE POLISH EURO-ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION

CHAIRMAN: AMB. (RET.) RASTISLAV KÁČER, President of the Slovak Atlantic Commission

H.E. MR. MIKULÁŠ DZURINDA, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic

H.E. MR. JÁNOS MARTONYI, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary

H.E. MR. KAREL SCHWARZENBERG, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic

MIKOŁAJ DOWGIELEWICZ, State Secretary for European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign

Affairs of the Republic of Poland

13:00 – 14:30 LUNCHEON HOSTED BY THE REPRESENTATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

14:30 – 16:00 PANEL 6: NEW EURO-ATLANTIC SECURITY ARCHITECTURE: VALUES AND INTERESTS

CO-ORGANIZED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: AMB. MARC PERRIN DE BRICHAMBAUT, Secretary General of the OSCE

CHAIRMAN: AMB. IVAN KORČOK, Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic

to the European Union, Brussels

H.E. MR. NICKOLAY MLADENOV, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria

AMB. VICTORIA NULAND, Special Envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe,

U. S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.

TIMOFEI BORDACHEV, Director, Center for Comprehensive European and

International Studies, Moscow

ANDREW WILSON, Senior Policy Fellow, The European Council on Foreign

Relations, London

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 PANEL 7: THE NEW STRATEGIC CONCEPT OF NATO

CHAIRMAN: TOMÁŠ VALÁŠEK, Slovak Atlantic Commission; Director of Foreign

Policy and Defence, Centre for European Reform, London

JAMIE SHEA, Director of the Policy Planning in the Private Office of the NATO

Secretary General, NATO HQ, Brussels

AMB. (RET.) JERZY M. NOWAK, President, Polish Euro-Atlantic Association, Warsaw

DAMON WILSON, Vice President and Director International Security Program, Atlantic Council of the USA, Washington, D.C.

JULIAN LINDLEY-FRENCH, Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy, Netherlands

Defence Academy, Alphen

18:00 CLOSING REMARKS AND SUMMARY

18:15 EVENING RECEPTION HOSTED BY THE MINISTER OF DEFENCE OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC