Conference: NATO's Political Transformation and A Strategy of Further Enlargement. Challenges and Perspectives for Ukraine, Kiev, June 12, 2008
Project’s Idea – Centre for European and Transatlantic Studies
Organizers – Centre for European and Transatlantic Studies, Charity Foundation “Mission of Intellectual Initiatives” with support from the International Renaissance Foundation
Partners – Research Centre of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Prague Security Studies Institute
Address:
str. Volodymyrska, 55
(Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences)
Kyiv, Ukraine.
Planned number of participants – 70-80
MAIN THEMES
1st Session: Key Challenges for NATO and A Concept of Political Transformation and Further Enlargement
Moderator: Dr. Ivo Samson, RC SFPA, Slovak Republic
• NATO: Scenarios for future – Dr. Jiri Schneider, Prague Security Studies Institute
• Strategic consensus finding, sharing of risks, global political and operational cohesion – criteria for a new enlargement success – Mr. Oleksiy Kolomiyets, President for CETS
• A New Strategic Concept for A New NATO: Looking Ahead and Thinking About Ukraine – Mr. Vitaliy Martynyuk, International Institute for Humanitarian Technologies
• “NATO and EU: Shaping New Cooperative Ties after the Bucharest Summit”- Professor Adrian Pop, Ph.D., National School of Political Studies and Public Administration Faculty of Political Sciences, Romania
2nd Session: Waves of Enlargement: from Madrid to Washington to Bucharest and Further
Moderator:
• The Bucharest Summit-2008 and its implication on Alliance’s further enlargement?- Dr. Olexander Sushko, CPCFPU
• Will the NATO’s future enlargement become a security-strategic needness and on Alliance’s “absorbing capacity”? - NATO HQ Speaker (tbc.)
• New centre-eastern members as product of the NATO Partnership Concept. A mission completed? What’s next? – Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Ukraine
• Ukraine’s membership and cardinal changes of NATO missions: Is a road to Alliance alone?- Mr. Yuriy Ruban, National Institute for Strategic Studies (tbc.)
• ‘How Turkey perceives the security development in the Black Sea region after the NATO enlargement ?’ – Prof. Huseyin Bagci, METU, Turkey
3rd Session: From Eurocentric Defence Alliance Toward Global institute of Security?
Moderator:
• Towards The Summit-2009: Strategic Lessons for Ukraine- Mr. M. Sungurovskiy, The Razumkov’s Centre
• Future of NATO – Future of a Global Security Risk: Continuity of Enlargement or Global Resignation? - Dr. Ivo Samson, RC SFPA, Slovak Republic
• “Global Partnership” as a first step to the full membership in NATO? – Mr. Sergiy Gerasymchuk, GSSS, Ukraine
• The Mission in Afganistan and ‘two-tired’ Alliance? A Litmus Test for Alliance or Risk for an Overall Failure?- Mr. V. Drobot, NCEAI, Ukraine
• Is a success of NATO “Global Partnership” in interests for Ukraine?- Mr.Sergiy Tereshko, NIISP, Ukraine
Contact:
Oleksiy Kolomiyets
President of the Centre for European and Transatlantic Studies
Email: europekolomiyets@ukr.net
