Dear Visitors,

Please join us on 15 February from noon to 12:40 pm for a special fifth live video session with parliamentarians from the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. The discussion will be wide-ranging, and we encourage you to submit questions on any topic related to NATO’s new Strategic Concept.

Our guests will be:

The Honourable Jane Cordy, Vice-President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and Senator representing the province of Nova Scotia (Canada);

Mr Assen Agov, Vice-President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and member of Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria; and

Mr Hendrik Jan ORMEL, Vice-President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and  member of Christian Democratic Appeal (Netherlands).

The moderator will be Dr Jamie Shea, Head of Policy Planning at NATO Headquarters.

Please post your questions in the Discussion Forum.

We look forward to an interesting discussion!

Best regards

The Moderating Team

Dear Visitors,

You are kindly invited to join our fourth live video session on 3 February, 16.00 pm (CET) to discuss changes needed for NATO’s structure, forces and capabilities. 

Three experts will share their views and respond to your queries: Mr Robert Bell, former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment and Chairman of NATO’s Industrial Advisory Group; Rear Admiral Jorgen Berggrav, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation’s Representative in Europe, and Mr Luwdig Decamps, Head of Armaments Programme Support Section, Defence Investment Division, NATO.

The session will be moderated by Dr Gerlinde Niehus, Head of NATO’s Corporate Communications Section.

Please post your questions and ideas in the Discussion Forum and we will make sure they all reach our panelists.

 We are excited to hear your ideas and look forward to a thought-provoking discussion on the 3 February!

 The Moderating Team

Interview with Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola Chairman of the NATO Military Committee – Watch the video.

Dear visitors,

Thank you for all your comments and reactions since we launched this website on the New Strategic Concept last Monday, 3 August 2009. We are very pleased to see your interesting, constructive and thought-provoking contributions – and yes, we have read them all!

Here is a bit more information about how we envisage this forum to run and how we can cooperate.

The Roadmap for the New Strategic Concept (available on the Strategic Concept home page here), we state that the process leading to the adoption of the new Concept consists of three phases.

The first of these, which we are in now, is the “reflection phase”. Four expert seminars are planned to take place in the coming months, hosted by various NATO nations. As soon as the details are available, we will announce the dates and locations of these events.

In the meantime, here are the four themes that will be discussed at the seminars:

• NATO’s core tasks and functions;
• NATO as a part of a network of security actors;
• NATO and the Euro-Atlantic security environment; and
• NATO’s transformation process and capabilities.

Our first thematic discussion will start soon. Stay tuned to find out more about it in the coming days!

Welcome

Welcome to the Discussion Forum on NATO’s new Strategic Concept.

Please take this opportunity to voice your thoughts, concerns, recommendations and criticisms – on NATO, on what it should do and not do, and on where it should go and not go.

NATO will update this forum regularly with your contributions and, where appropriate, with our feedback.

Your ideas matter. Join us in the discussion.