Defence Policy and the Armed Forces in Times of Pandemic - Foundation Office Baltic States
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Defence Policy and the Armed Forces During the Pandemic downloadDuring the pandemic, the three primary aims of NATO and its member states were to retain readiness and credible deterrence, to limit the spread of the infection within the military, and to assist the civilian sector. Defence forces have largely succeeded in accomplishing these aims, albeit with a few exceptions. However, the way ahead for the countries included in this edited volume is less clear and is likely to be affected by a number of factors, such as the transformation of the defence sector prior to the pandemic, the assessment of the international security environment, and the economic consequences of the pandemic.
The study includes a separate chapter on the role of NATO during the pandemic, with subsequent individual chapters discussing developments in defence in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, and Norway.
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Program
Opening
Elisabeth Bauer
Director of the Baltic office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Jānis Bērziņš
Director at the Center for Security and Strategic Research, National Defence Academy of Latvia
Keynote speaker
Dr. Artis Pabriks
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence of the Republic of Latvia
Panel 1:
Thierry Tardy (PhD)
Director, Research Division NATO Defense College, Italy
Piotr Szymański
Research Fellow, Regional Security Programme, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), Poland
Henri Vanhanen
Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland
Moderator
Dr.sc.pol. Toms Rostoks
Senior Researcher, National Defence Academy of Latvia
Panel 2:
Robin Allers
Associate Professor, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) / Norwegian Defence University College (FHS), Norway
Michael Jonsson
Deputy Research Director, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden
Kalev Stoicesku
Research Fellow, International Centre for Defence and Security, Estonia
Jeppe Plenge Trautner
External Lecturer at the University of Aalborg, Denmark
Guna Gavrilko
PhD student at the University of Latvia
Moderator
Pauls Raudseps
Deputy editor-in-chief, magazine “Ir”, Latvia
