Allied Solidarity - Addressing security challenges in Central and Eastern Europe after the Warsaw Summit

Partner: Center for EU Enlargement Studies
Event date: Sep 26, 2016
Deadline for registering: Sep 23, 2016
Venue: Central European University, Budapest Nádor utca 9, Monument Building, Popper Room, 4.00 pm, Hungary
Category: Roundtable

Recent years have fundamentally reshaped the security environment on the European continent. With Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the era when the use of physical power was unthinkable in Europe is over, and with the instability in the Middle East and the emergence of the Islamic State, security threats and risks originating from the South have heightened and are directly felt across Europe. Although to different degrees, threats coming both from the East and the South pose a challenge to the countries of Central Europe, and a strong joint response cannot come soon enough. The NATO Summit that took place in Warsaw in July 2016 sought to address these threats and set out to strengthen the Alliance’s eastern flank in order to provide reassurance for the eastern NATO members. Physical presence, however, responds only to part of the problem. Answers are needed to address a vast array of issues, among them the rising challenge of ‘information warfare’. In the meantime, new ideas are emerging also in the European Union about the potential reform of its security and defense policy.

Chair: Péter Balázs, Director, CEU Center for European Neighborhood Studies 

Speakers:

Dániel Bartha, Executive Director, Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy

Jaroslav Nad, Director for Security and Defense, Slovak Security Policy Institute

Wojciech Przybylski, Editor-in-chief, Visegrad Insight and Eurozine

Zsuzsanna Végh, Research Fellow, CEU Center for European Neighborhood Studies

Register here or at veghzs@ceu.edu

by September 23

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