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We are pleased to invite you to the conference “Europe at War: Northern Europe’s Role in Transatlantic Security,” hosted by the Atlantic Council and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Stockholm. As Sweden and Finland join NATO, and as Ukraine’s counter offensive gains momentum, there is not only an opportunity but urgency that Germany engages in the Nordic-Baltic Sea region to ensure the region’s peace, security, and prosperity.

The half-day conference will feature two panels. The first panel, “A United Front”, will address the current state of Western support to Ukraine and longer-term strategies to ensure peace and security in Europe as well as achieve an acceptable peace in Ukraine. Germany’s response and future role in ensuring transatlantic unity will be central to the discussion.

The second panel, “A Double Zeitenwende,” will address how Germany and the Nordic duo, having undergone a near complete overhaul of their strategic thinking, should contribute to regional and transatlantic security. Not only are substantial defence investments being, but policy makers are rapidly reassessing their nation’s role in European and Transatlantic security. The panel will investigate the Nordic-Baltic region’s place in an era of great-power rivalry and major war on the European continent.

 

speakers

Anna Wieslander
Director for Northern Europe, Atlantic Council

Gabriele Baumann
Head of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Nordic countries

Carl Bildt
Former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden, Co-Chair of European Council on Foreign Relations

Henrik Landerholm
Swedish National Security Advisor

Diane Janse
Swedish State Security for Development Aid

 

A United Front (Panel I)

Sławomir Dębski
Director, Polish Institute of International Affairs

Andrew Michta
Dean, College of International and Security Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies

Jana Puglierin  
Head, European Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin

Michal Baranowski
Senior Researcher, Institute for Peace Research & Security Policy Hamburg

 

 A Double Zeitenwende (Panel II)

Major General (ret.) Erhard Bühler
Former Chief of Defence Planning at German Ministry of Defense & Commander of NATO Joint Force Command

Eva Hagström Frisell
Deputy Research Director, Swedish Defence Research Agency

Hanna Ojanen
Research Director, Tampere University, Finland

Benjamin Tallis
Research Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations

 

In case you missed it, you can watch the seminar on Youtube under this link: Europe at War: https://youtu.be/kAPVW_QqICo