NATO Lecture with Jamie Shea: Cyber Attacks

Cyber attacks: hype or an increasing headache for open societies?

Strengthening the European Information Society: Consumers in Media Policy
The Institute for European Studies (IES) is proud to welcome Jamie Shea who will give a series of six lectures, each dealing with a specific challenge and what NATO and the international community need to do to meet that challenge successfully.

Programme

• Thursday 29 October
  Proliferation of WMD's: is the nuclear genie now definitely out of the bottle?
  
  
• Thursday 26 November:
  Climate change as a security challenge in the 21st century: where and how bad is the impact likely to be?
  

• Thursday 10 December:
  International terrorism: is it still a strategic threat?
  
  
• Monday 14 December:
  Energy security: is this a challenge for the markets or for the strategic community as well?
  

• Thursday 21 January:
  Failed and failing states: will they keep us busy in the next 20 years as they did during the last 20 years?
  

• Thursday 28 January:
  Cyber attacks: hype or an increasing headache for open societies?
  
  

Location and Registrations

All the lectures will be held at the IES, pleinlaan 15 - 5th floor, 1050 Brussels between 13:00 - 14:00

Registrations is free of charge.  To register, please send an email to mark.de.clerck@vub.ac.be, indicating which lecture you would like to attend.

Jamie Shea

Dr. Jamie Shea received worldwide attention during the 1999 Kosovo war when he served as the spokesperson for Nato.
He is now the Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary General at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.