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International Conference on:
“ANTICIPATING THE NEW STRATEGIC CONCEPT”

Wednesday, January 27, 2010
INCIPE Conference Room Arapiles, 14 Madrid


PROGRAM pdf


9:30 - 10:00 Conference Inauguration and key remarks:
Why a New Strategic Concept?
- José Lladó, Ambassador of Spain. President of INCIPE
- Representative of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (t.b.c.)

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 First Panel: “Article Number 5”
How to combine today self-defence (Art. 5) and security (expeditionary forces)? Under which category stands Afghanistan? Can Art. 5 apply as much outside NATO territory as inside? How to tackle cyber-attacks and energy cut-offs?
Chairman: Vicente Garrido, Director of INCIPE
- Vice-Admiral Enrique Pérez Ramírez, Deputy General Director for Planning and International Relations, Spanish MoD
- Karl-Heinz Kamp, Director of the NATO Defence College Research Division, Rome
- Félix Arteaga, Senior Analyst, Security and Defence Area, Elcano Royal Institute, Madrid
- Julian Lindley-French, “Eisenhower” Professor of Defence Strategy, Netherlands Defence Academy. Senior Associate Fellow, U. K. Defence Academy

12:00 - 13:00 Debate


13:00 - 14:30 Working Lunch Buffet
Keynote Address on “Climate Change and the New Strategic Concept” by Prof. Dr. Messner Dirk, Director of the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn. Vice Chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change to the German Federal Government (WBGU)

14:30 - 16:00 Second Panel: “NATO’s role in projecting stability”
Would enlargement contribute to it? Is there the so-called Partnership Industry? How to better cooperate with the Mediterranean? Is it possible to go beyond ups and downs with Russia?
Chairman: José María López-Navarro, Information Officer, Spain and Portugal, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO HQ, Brussels
- Pere Vilanova, Director of Strategic and Security Affair's Division, Spanish MoD
- Alain Délétroz, Vice-President for Europe, International Crisis Group, Brussels Office
- Ambassador Senén Florensa, General Director, European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed), Barcelona
- Russian speaker (t..b.c.)


16:00 - 17:00 Debate


17:00 - 17:30 Closing remarks


Working languages: Spanish and English with simultaneous translation