Lecture on Transatlantic Alliance: "NATO: the protector of our populations"

19 Jun 2008 13:00
19 Jun 2008 14:00
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?

This lecture has taken place at the IES Conference room, Pleinlaan 5, 3rd floor.
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Thursday 10 April 2008 - "Twenty Years On"

Two decades have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. How has NATO changed over those years and has the transformation process been deep enough to adapt the Alliance to today’s very different world? What has NATO contributed to international security during this period? Where has it succeeded; where has it been less successful?


Thursday 8 May 2008 - “NATO as a Peacekeeper and Peace Enforcer”

The public today knows NATO best from its missions in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. Are peacekeeping and peace enforcing the future of the Alliance?  What is NATO’s record in stabilizing the Balkans and Afghanistan and which lessons have the Allies had to learn along the way?