Europe faces overlapping crises on its periphery. Up to now both NATO and the EU have favoured an approach which analyses the threats separately
Europe faces overlapping crises on its periphery. Up to now both NATO and the EU have favoured an approach which analyses the threats separately. Those who focus on the Mediterranean know little of Russia while Russia and Eastern European experts know even less of the southern and eastern rim Mediterranean countries. Issues and interests are however increasingly cross-linked if not intertwined and this risks seriously fragmenting NATO’s analysis. Different members of the EU and NATO have different perceptions, interests and therefore agendas which are linked to history and economics, possession or not of effective armies and energy dependence. The Russian factor is an obvious link between both flanks. Russia plays a central role in Eastern Europe and the Baltic area region. Its relevance in the South is increasing rapidly in Syria but it has long standing interests in Algeria. Russia is developing anti-access and area denial (A2/AD) bubbles along the Eastern and Southern flank that entail serious consequences for NATO operational planning. All these issues will be explored during this seminar gathering experts with different areas of expertise and perspectives.
Jordi Bacaria, Director, CIDOB
Christopher Donnelly, Director, The Institute for Statecraft, London
Chair: Carme Colomina, Associate Researcher, CIDOB
Robert Pszczel, Acting Director of NATO Information Office in Moscow, PDD, NATO
Issandr El Amrani, Head of Maghreb Division, International Crisis Group, Rabat
Oleksandr Sushko, Research Director of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv
Chair: Christopher Donnelly, Director, The Institute for Statecraft, London
Alex Kokcharov, Principal Analyst, Country Risk at IHS Markit, London
Akram Kharief, Chief Editor, MENADefense, Algiers
Kadri Liik, Senior Policy Fellow, ECFR, London
Chair: Francis Ghilès, Senior Research Fellow Associate, CIDOB, Barcelona
Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO, Brussels
Ali Hached, former member ofthe Board of Sonatrach, Algiers
Alan Riley, Senior Fellow, The Institute for Statecraft, London
Sohbet Karbuz, Director of Hydrocarbons, Mediterranean Observatory for Energy (OME), Paris
Chair: Stephen Dalziel, Senior Fellow, The Institute for Statecraft, London
Robert Pszczel, Acting Director of NATO Information Office in Moscow, PDD, NATO
Jakub Kalenský, East StratCom Task Force, EEAS, Brussels
Ben Robinson, Photographer and Writer, Oxford
Nicolás de Pedro, Research Fellow, CIDOB, Barcelona
Christopher Donnelly, Director, The Institute for Statecraft, London
Jordi Bacaria, Director, CIDOB
