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Moscow Winter Academy
examines NATO’s transformation
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On 9 February, students from Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia
and the United States gathered in Moscow for the beginning of a major
conference on security issues and to interact with leading diplomats,
NATO officials and academics.
The fifth annual Winter Academy, organised by the Institute of Scientific
Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
with the participation of the NATO Information Office in Moscow,
focused on the theme of “NATO Transformation: 1990-2004”.
NATO officials and diplomats faced many challenging questions from
attendees on a wide range of issues such as NATO’s actions
in Kosovo and the operation in Afghanistan. In addition, participants
asked several speakers to explain how NATO planned on transforming
in order to address new threats such as terrorism. Even the possibility
of Russian membership in NATO was explored, with the historic precedents
of the membership of certain states in only the political arm of
NATO studied as a potential model.
Leading Russian academics at the conference also added their insights
into NATO’s transformation and its current role.
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