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The Forum brings together top policy planning officials and strategy experts from ten leading democracies at the forefront of building and maintaining the rules-based democratic order. Participants in this “Democracies 10” — Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States, plus the European Union — have demonstrated a commitment to shared values and interests, and possess the requisite diplomatic, economic, and military resources to act on a global scale.
D-10 Meetings
D-10 Strategy Forum meetings are hosted by the foreign ministries of participating D-10 states. Previous meetings have taken place in:
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Tokyo, September 2016
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Brussels, January 2016
Rome, June 2015
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Ottawa, July 2014
Strategy Papers
Strategy of “Contrainment”: Countering Russia’s Challenge to the Democratic Order
Note: The views expressed in the strategy papers reflect those solely of the co-authors, and are not intended to imply endorsement or approval by any other participants in the D-10 Strategy Forum.
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Contacts
For more information about the D-10 Strategy Forum, please contact:
Ash Jain, Senior Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, and Co-Director, D-10 Strategy Forum