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NATO in 2020: What lies Ahead? Print E-mail
Written by Young Atlanticist   
Monday, 23 March 2009

This April, young leaders from accross Europe gathered on the margins of the 60th anniversary NATO Summit in Strasbourg/Kehl to debate the future of the Alliance. The event brought together over 300 young leaders and students from the Youth Atlantic Treaty Association, the Office Franco-Allemand pour la Jeunesse, and l'Ecole National d'Administration for series discussions on what the future of NATO will hold. Participants heard President Barack Obama give one of his first public addresses as President in Europe and heard from a number of high level leaders and experts including NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer , Director of NATO Policy and Planning Dr. Jamie Shea , French columnist Bernard-Henri Lévy , Senior Director of Amnesty International Claudio Cordone , Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman , Central and Eastern Europe Correspondent for the Economist Edward Lucas and leading Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid . The NATO in 2020 event continues the Atlantic Council’s tradition of bringing the future generation of leaders together on the margins of the official NATO Summit and expands its ongoing Young Atlanticist Network.

 
Warsaw Transatlantic Forum Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009

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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.

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TheYoung Atlanticist Summit Print E-mail
Written by Alex Dobrota   
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
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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.

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SIn December of last year, a series of articles gave rise to public discussion as to who will be replacing Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as NATO’s Secretary General. The name of the incumbent will be revealed at the soon upcoming anniversary summit in Strasbourg-Kehl, but speculations have already had time to ripen and subsequently be dispelled. The Economist pushed forward an argument explaining why the top NATO job ought to go to an Eastern European, while the New York Times generally discussed the view that NATO is in need of a strong personality, if not a ‘noisier character’ altogether. All in all, it is quite evident that one of the challenges before the next Secretary General will be to continue breathing life into an entity whose very relevance continues to be undermined and overseen.

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