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The South Asia Center receives guidance and support from many experts throughout the world. Our senior fellows, guest-speakers, Center patrons, and visitors contribute heavily to the Center’s mission to “wage peace,” and engage the international community in the region. The Center asked our contributors the simple, but key question, “What you do expect in 2012?”
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Wilton Park Conference on the Transatlantic Strategic Partnership
March 05, 2010
From March 5-7, the Atlantic Council, in partnership with Wilton Park, the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique and the Royal United Service Institute, held a conference on "The Transatlantic Strategic Partnership in a Globalised World" in the United Kingdom. The conference was co-sponsored by NATO and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and was chaired by Strategic Advisors Group (SAG) member Robert Hunter.
The central objective of this conference was to make a key contribution to the elaboration of the new Strategic Concept of the Alliance by providing a high-level stock-taking exercise. The conference involved approximately fifty policymakers and military officials, parliamentarians, and leading security experts from both sides of the Atlantic. Three sessions allowed the group to assess the analytic framework for the new Strategic Concept, the purposes it should serve, and its content.
With 20 members of the Atlantic Council's SAG in attendance, the conference also served to benefit the SAG’s ‘STRATCON 2010’ project, which seeks to shape the debate concerning NATO’s development of a new Strategic Concept. Led by SAG members Yves Boyer, Julian Lindley-French, Robert Hunter, and Kurt Volker, the project influences the Strategic Concept development process from both inside and outside the formal process. SAG members were in attendance at NATO’s five official reflection conferences on the future of the Strategic Concept, and the Atlantic Council served as a partner in hosting the fourth official NATO seminar on the topic of NATO capabilities in February 2010. The SAG will also provide members of NATO’s Group of Experts with issue briefs on issues most critical to the success of the Strategic Concept. In 2010, the SAG will produce an important ‘STRATCON 2010 Report’ that will provide an outline for what the official NATO Strategic Concept should address when it is unveiled at the Lisbon Summit in the fall of 2010.
Wilton Park Conference Report
Wilton Park Conference Agenda
NATO Issue Briefs:
- NATO Reform and Decision-Making
- Article 5 and Strategic Reassurance
- The U.S., NATO and the EU: Partnership in the Balance
- The Challenge: NATO Amidst Geopolitical Realities
- A New Transatlantic Compact for NATO
The SAG and its activities are generously sponsored by the Scowcroft Group, EADS North America, and Airbus.
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