NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Chair: Bruno Racine

Kick-off remarks:

•   The new security environment: NATO’s strategic interests, what priorities and what vulnerabilities? - Speaker: Karl Kaiser

•   NATO’s contribution to global security. - Speaker: Rupert Smith

Aim: to get a common understanding of major changes in the security environment and the implications of these changes for NATO’s essential purpose and contribution to the freedom and security of its members.

Chair: Adam Rotfeld

Kick-off remarks:

•   Collective defence in today’s security environment. Article V. credibility and changing requirements. - Speaker: Espen Barth Eide

•   Adapting deterrence to the 21st century. - Speakers: Stefan Fule and Rob de Wijk

Aim: to review the fundamental security missions of the Alliance and assess what remains unchanged and what needs to be adapted. To identify what new tasks does the Alliance still need to address.

Chair: Geoff Hoon

Kick-off remarks:

•    Is NATO still the focal point for Transatlantic political consultation and policy formulation and coordination? - Speaker: Pauline Neville-Jones

•   Anticipation and prevention: how to promote knowledge-based security within NATO? - Speaker: Camille Grand

Aim: to explore the scope and efficiency of political consultation in NATO.

Three round tables (1 hour + 3x10’ debrief) chaired by Experts supported by rapporteurs.

•   Round table one: Level of ambition in a constrained environment - Chair: Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz

•   Round table two: Hard and soft security – soft and smart power - Chair: Giancarlo Aragona

•   Round table three: Prioritization of missions – prevent, deter, protect, fight. - Chair: Ümit Pamir

Aim: to confront ideas with realities. To assess tensions among nations about the move from defence to security (functional enlargement - how far?) and about ambition and resource constraints.

Conclusions from the seminar rapporteur: Karl-Heinz Kamp