The three-day GLOBSEC 2011 Bratislava Global Security Forum Agenda will consist of five night owl sessions and seven interactive panels that will encompass the most pressing issues that dominate current international relations.
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1ST DAY – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011 |
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| 18:00 |
WELCOMING RECEPTION AND CULTURAL PROGRAM (UPON INVITATION) | |||
| VENUE: HISTORICAL BUILDING OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF SLOVAK REPUBLIC, ŽUPNÉ NÁMESTIE 12, BRATISLAVA |
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| Hosted by PAVOL FREŠO - Chairman, Bratislava Self-Governing Region |
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| 21:00 |
NIGHT OWL SESSION 1: EURO: SHIFTING FROM SURVIVAL TO REVIVAL? (OFF THE RECORD) | |||
| VENUE: KEMPINSKI HOTEL RIVER PARK BRATISLAVA, DVOŘÁKOVO NÁBREŽIE 6, BRATISLAVA | ||||
| Chairperson: (to be determined) |
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| H. E. IVAN MIKLOŠ - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic (confirmed) |
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| AMB. IVAN KORČOK - Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the European Union, Brussels (confirmed) | ||||
| SIMON TILFORD - Chief Economist, Centre for European Reform, London (confirmed) |
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| 21:00 |
NIGHT OWL SESSION 2: STRATEGIC DEFENCE REVIEWS: CAN WE DO MORE WITH LESS? (OFF THE RECORD) | |||
| VENUE: KEMPINSKI HOTEL RIVER PARK BRATISLAVA, DVOŘÁKOVO NÁBREŽIE 6, BRATISLAVA |
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| Chairman: ROBIN SHEPHERD, Director of International Affairs, Henry Jackson Society, Bratislava (confirmed) |
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| GERALD HOWARTH - Minister for International Security Strategy, Ministry of Defence of the United ingdom, London (confirmed) |
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| CHRISTAN SCHMIDT, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Defence of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin (preliminary confirmed) |
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| RÓBERT ONDREJCSÁK - State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic (confirmed) |
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| JIŘÍ ŠEDIVÝ - State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic (confirmed) |
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| SPEAKER (to be determined) | ||||
| 21:00 | NIGHT OWL SESSION 3: ARE WE SECURE IN CYBER SPACE? (OFF THE RECORD) | |||
| VENUE: KEMPINSKI HOTEL RIVER PARK BRATISLAVA, DVOŘÁKOVO NÁBREŽIE 6, BRATISLAVA | ||||
| Chairperson: (to be determined) |
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| SULEYMAN ANIL - Head, Cyber Defence Section, Emerging Security Challenges Division, NATO, Brussels (confirmed) |
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| AMB. JÜRI LUIK - Permanent Representative of the Republic of Estonia to NATO, Brussels (confirmed) |
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| REX HUGHES - Visiting Fellow for Cyber Security, Wolfson College, Cambridge University, Cambridge (preliminary confirmed) | ||||
| RASTISLAV MACHEL - National Liaison Officer for Slovakia, European Network and Information Security Agency, Heraklion (confirmed) |
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| SPEAKER (to be determined) | ||||
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2ND DAY – THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2011 |
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| 08:30 - 08:40 | OFFICIAL OPENING |
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| VENUE: KEMPINSKI HOTEL RIVER PARK BRATISLAVA, DVOŘÁKOVO NÁBREŽIE 6, BRATISLAVA | ||||
| AMB. (RET.) RASTISLAV KÁČER - President and Chairman of the Board, Slovak Atlantic Commission | ||||
| MILAN JEŽOVICA - State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic |
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| 08:40 - 09:10 | SPECIAL REMARKS: Defence Capabilities vs. Defence Cuts: Where to Find the Balance? |
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| H. E. ĽUBOMÍR GALKO - Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic (confirmed) | ||||
| H. E. DAVOR BOŽINOVIĆ - Minister of Defence of the Republic of Croatia (confirmed) |
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| DR. KARL A. LAMERS - President, NATO Permanent Assembly, Berlin; Deputy Chairman (CDU), Defence Committee, Bundestag (confirmed) |
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| 09:10 - 10:40 | PANEL 1: DEMOCRACY PROMOTION AFTER THE PRESIDENTAL ELECTION IN BELARUS | |||
| CO-ORGANIZED BY THE CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES, PACT INC. AND THE INSTITUTE FOR MODERN SLOVAKIA | ||||
| Chairman: ROLAND FREUDENSTEIN - Deputy Director and Head of Research, Centre for European Studies, Brussels (confirmed) |
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| ALAKSANDR MILINKEVICH - Opposition Leader, Minsk (confirmed) | ||||
| BALÁZS JARÁBIK - Country Representative for Belarus and Ukraine, PACT; Associate Fellow, FRIDE, Kyiv (confirmed) |
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| ALEXEI PIKULIK - Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, Vilnius (confirmed) | ||||
| EUGENIUSZ SMOLAR - Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for European Studies, Brussels; Senior Fellow, Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw (confirmed) | ||||
| PAVOL DEMEŠ - Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the U. S.; Minister for International Affairs of the Slovak Republic (1991 – 1992) (confirmed) | ||||
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Networking Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00 - 12:30 | PANEL 2: EUROPEAN ORDER: ARE WE HEADING TOWARDS A MULTIPOLAR EUROPE? | |||
| Chairman: EDWARD LUCAS - International Editor, The Economist, London (confirmed) |
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| BOGDAN LUCIAN AURESCU - State Secretary for Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, Bucharest (invited) |
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| JAAP DE ZWAAN - Director, Netherlands Institute of International Relations, The Hague (confirmed) | ||||
| OKSANA ANTONENKO - Senior Fellow and Programme Director for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London (confirmed) |
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| SERHAT GÜVENÇ - Professor of International Relations, Khadir Has University, Istanbul (confirmed) |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | NETWORKING LUNCH |
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| 14:00 - 15:30 |
PANEL 3: TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE ROLE OF CENTRAL EUROPE |
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| Chairperson: CONSTANZE STELZENMÜLLER - Senior Transatlantic Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the U. S., Berlin (confirmed) |
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| A. WESS MITCHELL - President and Co-Founder, Center for European Policy Analysis, Washington, D.C. (confirmed) | ||||
| JEREMY SHAPIRO - Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, US Department of State, Washington, D. C. (confirmed) |
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| MARCIN ZABOROWSKI - Director, Polish Institute for International Affairs, Warsaw (confirmed) | ||||
| TOMÁŠ VALÁŠEK - Member of the Board, Slovak Atlantic Commission; Director of Foreign Policy and Defence, Centre for European Reform, London (confirmed) |
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| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Networking Coffee Break | |||
| 15:45 - 17:00 | PANEL 4: EU TODAY AND TOMORROW | |||
| Chairman: AMB. (RET.) RASTISLAV KÁČER - President and Chairman of the Board, Slovak Atlantic Commission (confirmed) |
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| H.E. JÁNOS MARTONYI: HUNGARIAN PRESIDENCY OF THE EU |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary (preliminary confirmed) | ||||
| H.E. RADEK SIKORSKI: CSDP AS A PRIORITY OF THE POLISH EU PRESIDENCY |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (invited) | ||||
| H. E. KAREL SCHWARZENBERG: V4 AS AN ESSENTIAL BUILDING BLOCK OF THE EU |
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| Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic (preliminary confirmed) | ||||
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
KEYNOTE SPEECH: EASTERN PARTNERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN UNION | |||
| ŠTEFAN FÜLE - Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, European Commission (confirmed) | ||||
| Introduced by: ANDREA ELSCHEKOVÁ-MATISOVÁ - Head, Representation of the European Commission in Slovakia, Bratislava |
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| 21:00 | NIGHT OWL SESSION 4: SORTING OUT THE NATO-EU COOPERATION (OFF THE RECORD) | |||
| Chairperson: (to be determined) |
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| STEFANIE BABST - NATO Acting Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO Headquarters, Brussels (confirmed) |
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| AMB. TACAN ILDEM - Director General for International Security Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, Ankara (confirmed) |
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| AMB. ZOLTÁN MARTINUSZ - Principal Adviser on External Affairs, Cabinet of the President of the European Council H.E. Herman Van Rompuy, European Council, Brussles (confirmed) | ||||
| AMB. (RET.) KAREL KOVANDA - Foremer Deputy Director General for External Relations, European Commission; Former Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to NATO, Prague (confirmed) | ||||
| 21:00 | NIGHT OWL SESSION 5: ENERGY SECURITY FROM THE VISEGRAD PERSPECTIVE (OFF THE RECORD) | |||
| Chairman: VLADIMIR SOCOR - Senior Fellow, Eurasia Programme, Jamestown Foundation, Berlin (confirmed) |
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| KAREL HIRMAN - Adviser to the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic on Energy Security, Bratislava (confirmed) | ||||
| AMB. ANITA ORBÁN - Ambassador for Energy Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary, Budapest (confirmed) |
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| JOSE HOYOS PEREZ - Directorate B – Security of Supply, Energy Markets & Networks, Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission, Brussels (confirmed) |
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| SPEAKER (to be determined) | ||||
| 21:00 | NIGHT OWL SESSION 6: UKRAINE: HEADING EAST OR WEST? (OFF THE RECORD) | |||
| CO-ORGANIZED BY PACT INC. |
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| Chairman: PAVOL DEMEŠ - Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the U. S.; Minister for International Affairs of the Slovak Republic (1991 – 1992) (confirmed) |
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| AMB. (RET.) ISTVÁN GYARMATI - President and CEO, International Centre for Democratic Transition, Budapest (confirmed) |
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| ALEXANDER GONCHARENKO - President, Center for International Security and Strategic Studies, Kyiv (confirmed) | ||||
| SPEAKER (to be determined) | ||||
| 21:00 - 22:30 |
BREAK-OUT DINNER SESSIONS (OFF THE RECORD) |
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| A/ CLIMATE CHANGE: AN ISSUE OF NATIONAL SECURITY? | ||||
| Chairperson: KATARÍNA KORYTÁROVÁ - Researcher, Center for Climate and Sustainable Energy Policy, Central European University, Budapest (invited) |
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| DUNCAN DEPLEDGE - Research Analyst, Climate Change and Security Programme, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, London (confirmed) |
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| MILAN LAPIN - Head of the Division of Meteorology and Climatology, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava (confirmed) |
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| MILOŠ BALABÁN - Head of the Center of Security Policy, Center for Social and Economic Strategies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague (invited) |
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| B/ NUCLEAR POLICY OF NATO AND THE EURO-ATLANTIC SECURITY |
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| Chairman: IAN ANTHONY - Research Director, Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Programme, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Stockholm (confirmed) |
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| GUY ROBERTS - Deputy Assistant Secretary General for WMD Policy, Director, Nuclear Policy Planning Directorate, NATO Headquarters, Brussels (confirmed) |
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| RALF ROLOFF - Senior German Professor, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (confirmed) |
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| C/ DEFENCE COOPERATION AFTER CRISIS | ||||
| Chairman: IAN BRZEZINSKI - Senior Fellow, International Security Programme, Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C. (confirmed) |
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| MATTHEW RHODES - Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (confirmed) |
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| OLAF OSICA - Deputy Director, Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw (confirmed) | ||||
| SPEAKER (to be determined) | ||||
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3RD DAY – FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011 |
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| 09:00 - 10:30 | PANEL 5: EASTERN PARTNERSHIP 2.0 |
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| CO-ORGANIZED BY THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (ECFR) | ||||
| KEYNOTE REMARKS: H.E. MIKULÁŠ DZURINDA - Minister of Foreign Affaris of the Slovak Republic (confirmed) | ||||
| Introduced by: AMB. (RET.) RASTISLAV KÁČER - President and Chairman of the Board, Slovak Atlantic Commission (confirmed) | ||||
| Chairman: NICU POPESCU - Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations, London (confirmed) | ||||
| H.E. IURIE LEANCĂ - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affaris and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova (confirmed) | ||||
| H.E. GRIGOL VASHADZE - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Georgia (confirmed) | ||||
| H.E. KONSTYANTIN GRYSHCHENKO - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (invited) | ||||
| BRUCE JACKSON - President, Project on Transitional Democracies, Washington, D. C. (confirmed) | ||||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Networking Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
PANEL 6: TWO YEARS AFTER U.S.-RUSSIA RESET: RETHINK OR CONTINUE? | |||
| Chairman: STEPHEN FLANAGAN - Senior Vice-President and Henry A. Kissinger Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D. C. (confirmed) |
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| MICHAEL MCFAUL - Special Assiastant to the President and Senior Director for Russia and Eurasian Affairs; Director for Eastern Europe, U.S. National Security Council, Washington, D.C. (invited) | ||||
| VIKTOR OZEROV - Chairman, Committee on Defence and Security, Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Moscow (invited) |
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| AMB. MIROSLAV LAJČÁK - Managing Director for Russia, Eastern Neighbourhood and the Western Balkans, European External Action Service, Brussels; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic (2009 - 2010) (confirmed) | ||||
| BOBO LO - Analyst and Former Deputy Head at the Australian Embassy in Moscow, London (confirmed) | ||||
| ANDREW MICHTA, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; M.W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies, Rhodes College, Washington, D. C. (confirmed) |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | NETWORKING LUNCH |
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| 14:00 - 15:30 |
PANEL 7: NATO AFTER LISBON: WHAT LIES AHEAD? |
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| KEYNOTE REMARKS: STEFANIE BABST - NATO Acting Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO Headquarters, Brussels (confirmed) | ||||
| Chairman: DAMON WILSON - Executive Vice President, Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C. (confirmed) |
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| AMB. JÜRI LUIK - Permanent Representative of the Republic of Estonia to NATO, Brussels (confirmed) | ||||
| AMB. ADAM KOBIERACKI - Director, Department of Security Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (confirmed) |
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| AMB. TACAN ILDEM - Director General for International Security Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, Ankara (confirmed) | ||||
| AMB. (RET.) KURT VOLKER - Managing Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. (confirmed) |
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| 15:30 |
CLOSING REMARKS AND SUMMARY |
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