NATO and Russia: Geopolitical Competition or Pragmatic Partnership?
AMO - Association for International Affairs under the auspices of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Jan Kohout and with kind support of the NATO Public Diplomacy Division takes a great pleasure in inviting you to the international conference dedicated to the current state of play of NATO-Russia relations.
The conference brings together experts, policy makers and academia to discuss possible ways of utilizing existing structures to pool both parties’ capabilities in solving common concerns which primarily include the 'shared neighbourhood' between Russia and European NATO members but also the region of Middle East & North Africa.
Selection of confirmed speakers:
- Konstantin von Eggert, Editor-in-Chief, Kommersant FM radio in Moscow
- Daniel Kostoval, First Deputy Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic
- John Lough, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Statecraft, Oxford; Former Permanent NATO Representative in Russia
- Petr Lunak, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO
- Marcel Pesko, Director of the Office of the Secretary General, OSCE
- Frank Umbach, Associate Director of the European Centre for Energy and Resource Security, King‘s College, London; Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Term: Tuesday, 17 December 2013 from 08:30 to 15:30 (CET)
Venue: MFA, Loretánské náměstí 5, Mirror Hall, 118 00 Prague