Beyond surreal! I have just been sent this invitation! I guess these folks dont watch CrossTalk! LMAO! * Dear Lavelle, Exclusive invitation to NATO after the Wales Summit conference - 2nd September 2014, Central Cardiff I have great pleasure in inviting you to the NATO after the Wales Summit conference organised by Cardiff University. Taking place on the eve of the NATO Summit itself, when the eyes of the world will be focussed on Wales, the invite-only NATO after the Wales Summit conference on 2nd September 2014 will see leading thinkers and decision makers in the international security and defence community converge on the Welsh capital for an international debate to seek answers to a testing geopolitical landscape. The opening keynote will be given by Professor Stephen Krasner, International Relations Professor at Stanford University and former Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State. I am also pleased to say that Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, Deputy Secretary General of NATO will give the closing keynote. They will be joined by experts in defence, security, and international relations from across Europe. Why this conference? With the rise of new global players the worlds security landscape is changing rapidly, not only presenting the transatlantic community with pressing challenges, but also igniting considerable debate over the role and influence of NATO. A retreat from Afghanistan, compounded with the prospect of an irredentist post-Soviet Russia and the rise of transnational terrorism, see NATO confronted with an increasingly uncertain world. The conference will consider what these future challenges will be, what new means and mechanisms of cooperation these challenges will require and how NATO should prepare for future emerging challenges. This one-day event offers an opportunity for re-thinking the objectives and functions of the alliance just days before the worlds Heads of State gather to tackle these very issues. Critical themes on the conference agenda will be: Preparing for threats in emergent spaces, including cyber space and maritime security Smart Defence and planning for the future in times of austerity Cooperation in the transatlantic community in a post-Afghanistan age NATOs role as a global security actor The conference will provide a reflexive space to bring together core global leaders from academia, governments and the international security and defence community to rethink how to prepare NATO for an unpredictable future world. I hope you are able to join us and other international security and defence experts at this important event. Visit cardiff.ac.uk/wales-summit to secure your place or email [email protected]. Yours sincerely, Professor Colin Riordan President and Vice-Chancellor
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:00:54 +0000
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