On March 12th and 13th, leading policy makers from Poland, the United States, and greater Europe will convene in Warsaw for the launch of the Warsaw Transtalantic Forum. This major initiative will recognize 10 years of NATO membership for Poland as well as 20 years of democratic progress since the fall of the Iron Curtain. With headline speakers including Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, and Afghan Parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi, the conference will focus on a new Transatlantic Agenda and the emerging challenges that the Atlantic Community will face in the 21st Century.

As world leaders met this April for the largest NATO summit in Alliance history, future leaders from across the Euro-Atlantic region and Afghanistan convened in Bucharest to grapple with the major security issues facing the Atlantic Community today and to launch an innovative on-line community – the Young Atlanticist Network.  The Young Atlanticist Summit, held in conjunction with the official NATO Summit, brought together over 120 students and young professionals representing NATO and Partnership for Peace countries, as well as top students from the University of Kabul.  They had an extraordinary opportunity to meet directly with national and Alliance decision-makers and to build consensus on critical issues in the Alliance. Delegates at the Young Atlanticist Summit issued statements addressing the Alliance role in energy security , the controversy over the Macedonian name , and mechanisms for building closer relations between Alliance and Afghan publics.