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Commanders Series

Mar 10, 2010

General Stephane Abrial: NATO Transformation

General Stéphane Abrial of France, Commander of NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT), spoke before the Atlantic Council about ACT’s efforts to improve Alliance capabilities to meet current and future challenges as well as ACT’s role in NATO’s next Strategic Concept.

NATO
Security & Defense

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Mar 9, 2010

U.S.-Iran Relations Event Transcript

U.S.-Iran Relations Event Speakers: Damon Wilson, Vice President and Director, International Security Program, Atlantic Council C. Richard Nelson, Project Director, Reversing Relations with Adversaries Program, Atlantic Council Kenneth Katzman, Specialist in Middle East Affairs, Congressional Research Service Flynt Leverett, Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation George Perkovich, Vice President for Studies and Director, Nuclear Policy […]

Iran

Event Recap

Mar 4, 2010

Face of the New NATO: Lillelund Bech at Atlantic Council NATO Forum

The Atlantic Council hosted Danish Minister of Defense Gitte Lillelund Bech for a NATO Forum strategy session on her first visit to the United States as Minister and only days after she took office. Atlantic Council Board Director and former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe General Joseph Ralston, now Vice Chairman at The Cohen Group, hosted […]

International Security Assistance Force
NATO

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Mar 3, 2010

Iran Debate Event Transcript

Iran Debate Event Speakers: Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council David Ignatius, Columnist, Washington Post Michael Ledeen, Freedom Scholar, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Flynt Leverett, Senior Research Fellow, New American Foundation

Iran

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Mar 2, 2010

George Robertson Event Transcript

Lord Robertson Event Speakers: Ambassador Klaus Scharioth, Ambassador to the United States from Germany Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council Senator Chuck Hagel, Chairman, Atlantic Council Lord George Robertson, Former Secretary General of NATO

NATO
Security & Defense

Event Recap

Mar 2, 2010

Lord Robertson on Transatlantic Leadership

Lord George Robertson, the former Secretary General of NATO, delivered the Atlantic Council’s fourth annual Christopher J. Makins Lecture.  His speech, entitled “The Transatlantic Community: Time for Some Lateral Thinking,” outlined how to restore leadership within the transatlantic community.

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Mar 2, 2010

Sofia Roundtable, 3/2/2010: Keynote Address – Bulgaria’s Energy Security Priorities (Transcript)

Back to Sofia Energy Roundtable Page Speakers: H.E. Boyko Borisov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria H.E. Gunther Oettinger, European Commissioner for Energy Ambassador James Warlick, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Bulgaria Ambassador Richard Burt, Atlantic Council Board Director and Managing Director, McLarty Associates March 2, 2010 AMBASSADOR RICHARD BURT:  I want to […]

Event Recap

Mar 1, 2010

Sofia Energy Roundtable

The Atlantic Council hosted the Sofia Energy Roundtable in Sofia, Bulgaria on March 1-2 in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Economy, Energy, and Tourism of Bulgaria.

Energy & Environment

Event Recap

Feb 23, 2010

NATO Strategic Concept Seminar: Themes of Remarks by National Security Advisor General James Jones

"Transforming the Alliance" National Security Advisor General James Jones February 23, 2010 Secretary Clinton, Secretary Gates and General Jones each emphasized different issues under consideration in the Strategic Concept process.  Drawing from his extensive knowledge of NATO, General Jones’s focused on Alliance fundamentals (Article 4 and Article 5) as well as the Alliance’s need to […]

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Feb 22, 2010

Transcript: Hillary Clinton on NATO’s Future

Full transcript of the February 22, 2010 speech by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on NATO’s Future.

NATO
Security & Defense