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Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy

Global Euro-Atlantic Dialogue
In 2006-2007, the Brzezinski Chair directed A Global Euro-Atlantic Dialogue About the U.S., the EU, and NATO in the 21st Century.

As the first stage of this two-year project, made possible by funding from the European Commission, a working group of leading experts on the European Union and transatlantic relations met for a pair of two-day seminars at CSIS on February 27-28 and May 15-16, 2006. Based on the discussions of this working group, Simon Serfaty authored Moment of Reflection, Commitment to Action, a series of key recommendations for the European Union and the U.S.-EU partnership.

A parallel working group composed of leading experts on NATO and its relations with the European Union met in Riga, Latvia on September 15-17, 2006. Following this seminar, organized in cooperation with Latvia's Strategic Analysis Commission, Simon Serfaty prepared The NATO Riga Summit: A Renewed Commitment to Transformation, putting forward ten recommendations for the NATO Summit which took place in November 2006. A second meeting, assessing the results of the Summit and advancing ideas for a NATO and EU-NATO agenda for 2007-2009, was held in Berlin, Germany on December 9-10.

The concluding meeting of the project, Terms of Engagement: The Euro-Atlantic Partnership at Sixty, took place June 10-12 in Brussels, Belgium. This two-day seminar, co-sponsored by the Transatlantic Policy Network, involved senior think tank representatives from over two dozen institutions, as well as officials from the European Union and NATO, for a series of discussions on topics central to the EU-U.S.-NATO relationship.

Additional project reports are Recasting the Euro-Atlantic Partnership, co-authored by Franklin Kramer and Simon Serfaty, and Terms of Engagement: The Euro-Atlantic Partnership at Sixty. 

 

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