Lecture by Jon Birger Skjæreseth and Jørgen Wettestad, Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI), Lysaker, Norway and Yvon Slingenberg, European Commission, DG Environment
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Lecture by Sebastian Oberthür, Academic Director, Institute for European Studies (IES); Marc Pallemaerts, Senior Fellow, Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP); 3rd speaker to be announced
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Final lecture by Dr Jamie Shea, Director, Policy Planning, Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO
2009 will witness the Alliance’s 60th anniversary, two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall. NATO has a past, but does it have a future? What can we expect from NATO’s 60th anniversary summit in 2009? With a new Administration in the US, a new EU Treaty of Lisbon, and new leaderships in France and other European countries, what are the possibilities and options for how NATO can evolve over the next 60 years?
A series of six lecture by Dr Jamie Shea, Director, Policy Planning, Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO
The two decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall have seen the rise of a number of new security challenges: international terrorism, proliferation threats, cyber attacks and fears regarding energy security. These new challenges have replaced the threat of territorial aggression in the preoccupations of our citizens when they think about their security. Are they also issues for NATO and do they have implications for the way in which the Alliance thinks about its Article 5 collective defence obligation? What can NATO do to face up to these new 21st century security challenges?
Fourth lecture in a series of six by Dr Jamie Shea, Director, Policy Planning,
Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO
Another novel aspect of NATO’s evolution over the last 20 years has been the rapid development of partnerships with non-member states – first in Central and Eastern Europe, then in the Caucasus and Central Asia, followed by the Mediterranean and Middle East and, more recently, countries in the Asia-Pacific region. What does this increasingly global network of security relationships mean for NATO’s future roles and missions? Do they invariable imply a “global NATO” or the blurring of the distinction between Allies and Partners?
Third lecture in a series of six by Dr Jamie Shea, Director, Policy Planning, Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO
NATO has already welcomed ten new members since the end of the Cold War. The Bucharest Summit has continued the enlargement process. What has been the impact of such a major addition of new members on the Alliance? What have the new members contributed and have they changed NATO’s focus? How is the enlargement process likely to proceed in the future?
IES is a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Email: ies@vub.ac.be