GLOBSEC 2009

2.4.2009 13:19

The Youth Forum on the Future of NATO Will Be Broadcasted Live

More than 350 young leaders from 57 countries is taking part in a discussion on the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation today which is a side-event of the approaching NATO summit in Strasbourg and Kehl. Slovakia – that has recently commemorated 5 years of its membership in the Alliance – is also represented at the meeting.

3.3.2009 18:38

GLOBSEC 2009: Security and the Visegrad Countries – Proposals for Effective Cooperation

SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS Arising from the fact that the Visegrad countries share common values and interests and believing there exists a large space for them to adopt and defend common positions towards key issues in the sphere of security and defence policy, the Slovak Atlantic Commission – thanks to a generous support of the International Visegrad Fund – hosted an international expert seminar entitled GLOBSEC 2009: Security and the Visegrad Countries – Proposals for Effective Cooperation that was held on January 30, 2009 in Bratislava.

25.2.2009 14:39

GLOBSEC 2009 Summary of Proceedings

On January 29, 2009, the Slovak Atlantic Commission organized the fourth annual international security conference GLOBSEC 2009 in Bratislava. GLOBSEC conference is the Leading Foreign and Security Policy Conference in Central Europe, which aims to contribute to shaping of the Euro-Atlantic Security Agenda and is searching for answers to the most pressing issues of international affairs and security.

24.2.2009 02:43

GLOBSEC 2009 Official Opening and Keynote Speeches

24.2.2009 02:40

GLOBSEC 2009 1st Panel Speeches: NATO at 60: Towards a New Strategy?

24.2.2009 02:33

GLOBSEC 2009 2nd Panel Speeches: Transatlantic relations after changing political elites

24.2.2009 02:21

GLOBSEC 2009 3rd Panel Speeches: Europe Divided? Dealing with a Resurgent Russia

30.1.2009 20:53

Draft remarks by State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic Diana Štrofová at the GLOBSEC international conference

Ladies and Gentlemen, Excellencies. Advance planning for the agenda of foreign and security policy events, including Globsec, has proven to be an ambitious forecasting and futurist exercise. It would have been rather difficult to predict only a few months ago how deeply would the international security community get immersed in dealing with such issues as energy security of Slovakia and other countries of the European Union, or the escalation of the Middle East conflict, not to speak of the worrying context of global financial crisis, creeping economic recession, or accumulation of major global threats looming over these and other foreign policy and security issues of our times.

28.1.2009 21:39

Obama, disarmament and Iran

by Tomas Valasek Barack Obama has pledged to take steps to rid the world of nuclear weapons. “I will not authorise the development of new nuclear weapons. And I will make the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons worldwide a central element of US nuclear policy”, he wrote in December 2008.

28.1.2009 21:29

The Euro-American link: still the least-bad alliance

by Tomas Valasek On October 8, 1997, the then-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stood before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and declared: “The United States is a European power.” Her argument (made to convince the sceptical Senate to support the enlargement of NATO) sounds almost quaint today. Eleven years on, the strategic interests of the United States have moved eastward.

27.1.2009 21:36

Bratislava will host an important security conference

BRATISLAVA. Only a few days after the inauguration of the new U.S. president, our capital will be a seat of an important security conference. The 4th year of the conference will be dedicated to discussion on changes that Obama’s administration will bring, about annual NATO summit in April, relations with Russia and, to date, most significant European gas crisis. Bratislava will welcome two former ministers of foreign affairs from Poland and Ukraine, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General, as well as qualified security experts from USA and Europe.

27.1.2009 11:59

NATO Secretary General outlines 2009 highlights

At the annual press reception on the occasion of the New Year, held at NATO Headquarters, NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, outlined the priorities of the Alliance for 2009.

25.1.2009 20:08

TOMAS VALASEK: Why Ukraine matters to Europe

The conflict in Georgia in August 2008 is making the EU rethink its approach to the eastern neighbourhood.If the Union is to have a safe and stable eastern border – which it had taken for granted until the Georgia war – it needs to offer its neighbours a credible membership perspective, and it should also help them to resolve ‘frozen conflicts’ on their territories.