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<p align="center" class="style17"><strong>Table of Contents<br>
24th International Workshop - </strong><strong>Paris '07</strong></p>
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<span class="style219"><a href="/2007book/weissinger07.htm">Preface- Dr. Roger<br>
Weissinger-Baylon<br>
Workshop Chairman<br>
</a></span><span class="style219"><a href="/2007book/ranquet07.htm">Foreword - Ing General<br>
Robert Ranquet<br>
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<span class="style219"><a href="/2007book/joulwan07.htm">Opening Dinner Debate - <br>
General George Joulwan<br>
Former SACEUR<br>
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Global security challenges: <br>
Is there hope for <br>
Afghanistan or Iraq?<br>
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<p align="center" class="style17"><a href="/2007book/bentegeat07.htm">General Henri Bentegeat<br>
President of EU Military Committee</a>
<a href="/2007book/georgelin07">Gen Jean-Louis Georgelin C<strong>hef d’état</strong>-<strong>major</strong> des armées - France</a><a href="/2007book/amecourt07.htm">Mr. Jean de Ponton d'Amecourt - French Dir of Strategic Affairs</a><a href="/2007book/schuwirth07.htm">General Rainer Schuwirth <br>
Chief of Staff, SHAPE</a><a href="/2007book/ramms07.htm">General Egon Ramms <br>
Commander, Allied Joint Force Cmd, Brunssum</a>
<a href="/2007book/akram07.htm">
Amb Munir Akram<br>
Pakistan's Amb to UN</a><a href="/2007book/zhan07.htm">
Major Gen ZHAN Maohai<br>
Vice Chair of China IISS</a><br>
Energy & Climate Change<br>
<p align="center" class="style17"><a href="/2007book/jones07.htm">General James Jones<br>
Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe</a><a href="/2007book/ashton07.htm">Mr. John Ashton<br>
UK Special Repr for Climate Change</a><br>
Security in the Balkans & Black Sea region<br>
<p align="center" class="style17"><a href="/2007book/baramidze07.htm">Georgian Vice Prime Minister Giorgi Baramidze</a>
<a href="/2007book/tarasyuk07.htm">Ukrainian Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk</a>
<a href="/2007book/mediu07.htm">Albanian Defense Minister Fatmir Mediu</a><a href="/2007book/bliznakov07.htm">Bulgarian Defense Minister Veselin Bliznakov</a><a href="/2007book/bezhuashvili07.htm">Georgian Foreign Min Gela Bezhuashvili</a><a href="/2007book/ildem07.htm">Ambassador <strong> Tacan Ildem</strong><br>
Turkish Amb to NATO</a><a href="/2007book/buzhinsky07.htm">
Lt Gen Evgeniy Buzhinsky<br>
Russian Ministry of Defense</a><br>
Time for new strategies?<br>
NATO after the Riga Summit<br>
<p align="center" class="style17"><a href="/2007book/eldon07.htm">Amb Stewart Eldon<br>
UK Ambassador to NATO</a>
<a href="/2007book/orgaz07.htm">Amb Pablo Benavides Orgaz<br>
Spanish Amb to NATO</a>
<a href="/2007book/stefanini07.htm">Amb Stefano Stefanini <br>
Italian Amb to NATO</a><a href="/2007book/dipaola07.htm">Adm Giampaolo Di Paola<br>
Italian Chief of Defense<br>
</a><a href="/2007book/gagor07.htm">Gen Franciszek Gagor Polish Chief of Defense</a><br>
How can the EU, NATO, the OSCE, and UN reform?<br>
<p align="center" class="style17"><a href="/2007book/brichambaut07.htm">Amb Marc Perrin de Brichambaut<br>
OSCE Secretary General </a><a href="/2007book/lintonen07.htm">Amb Kirsti Lintonen Finnish Amb to UN</a>
<a href="/2007book/brodi07.htm">Amb Gabor Brodi<br>
Hungarian Amb to UN</a><a href="/2007book/rinkevics07.htm">State Sec Edgars Rinkevics - Latvian MOD</a><a href="/2007book/linkevicius07.htm">Amb Linas Linkevicius<br>
Lithuanian Amb to NATO<br>
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<a href="/2007book/chizhov07.htm">Amb Vladimir Chizhov<br>
Russian Amb to the EU<br>
</a><a href="/2007book/monteforte07.htm">Vice Adm Ferdinando Sanfelice di Monteforte<br>
Italian Mil Repr to NATO</a><br>
Dealing with middle east:<br>Views from North Africa
<p align="center" class="style17"><a href="/2007book/yousfi07.htm">Amb Youcef Yousfi<br>
Algerian Amb to UN and former Foreign Minister</a><a href="/2007book/karem07.htm">Amb Mahmoud Karem<br>
Egyptian Amb to EU and Repr to Med Dialogue</a><a href="/2007book/alem07.htm">Amb Menouar Alem<br>
Moroccan Amb to EU and Repr to Med Dialogue<br>
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<p align="center" class="style17">WMD and cyber threats
<p align="center" class="style17"><a href="/2007book/pfirter07.htm">Amb Rogelio Pfirter<br>
Director-General, OPCW</a>
<a href="/2007book/hopkins07.htm">Dr. Arthur T. Hopkins<br>
Assist to U.S. Sec of Defense - Nuclear & Chemical & Biological</a><a href="/2007book/aaviksoo07.htm">Estonian Defense Minister<br>
Jaak Aaviksoo</a><a href="/2007book/grimes07.htm">Hon John Grimes<br>
US Assistant Secretary of Defense - NII<br>
</a><a href="/2007book/lentz07.htm">Mr. Robert Lentz<br>
US Dep Asst Sec for NII<br>
</a><a href="/2007book/wolf07.htm">Lt General Ulrich Wolf<br>
Dir of NATO CIS Service Agency<br>
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<a href="/2007book/bloechl07.htm">Mr. Tim Bloechl<br>
Microsoft Exec Director</a>
<p align="center" class="style17">How industry can help address the global challenges<p align="center" class="style17"><a href="/2007book/lahoud07.htm">Mr. Marwan Lahoud<br>
Chief Operating Office EADS</a><a href="/2007book/schneider07.htm">Mr. Kent Schneider<br>
President, Defense Group<br>
Northrop Grumman IT<br>
</a><a href="/2007book/auroy07.htm">Mr. Patrick Auroy<br>
Deputy Director,<br>
French DGA
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</a><a href="/2007book/volkman07.htm">Mr. Alfred Volkman<br>
Dir, Defense Cooperation<br>
US Dept of Defense<br>
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<a href="/2007book/linnenkamp07.htm">Dr. Hilmar Linnenkamp<br>
Dep CEO, EDA</a>
<a href="/2007book/lind07.htm">Mr. Jan-Olof Lind<br>
Swedish National Armaments Director</a>
<a href="/2007book/buckley07.htm">Dr. Edgar Buckley<br>
Thales Senior Vice President</a>
<a href="/2007book/trice07">Dr. Robert Trice<br>
Lockheed Martin <br>
Senior Vice President<br>
</a><a href="/2007book/bertolone07.htm">Ing. Giovanni Bertolone<br>
CEO, Alenia Aeronautica</a>
<p align="center" class="style17">The way ahead & why current approaches don't work
<p align="center" class="style17"><a href="/2007book/martinusz07.htm">Amb Zoltan Martinusz<br>
Hungarian Amb to NATO<br>
</a><a href="/2007book/ducaru07.htm">Amb Dumitru Sorin Ducaru<br>
Romanian Amb to NATO</a><a href="/2007book/kujat07.htm"> General Harald Kujat<br>
Former Chair of NATO Military Committee</a>
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<p align="center" class="style27"><strong>Why the Alliance Needs a New Strategic Concept and a<br>
New Shared trans-Atlantic Vision to <br>
Address the Challenges of the Future</strong></p>
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Italian Chief of General Staff</span></b></div></td>
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<p align="center" class="style26"><em>"What is the mission of NATO? If we don’t have a new mission, if we don’t have a new covenant between Europe <br>
and the United States, we will not have
a shared future."</em></p>
<p>The point I want to make is that nothing remarkable has come from the Riga summit, just as nothing remarkable has come from the Prague and Istanbul summits. Somehow we are floating over the water but with no clear sense of direction. The communiqués that transmit to people what the summits are for are very nicely crafted, but nothing gives you a sense of what really has come out of them, nothing captures your heart. We are actually just like businessmen, very properly dressed, carrying a briefcase, and very confident, but we’re just strolling around, not really knowing where we are going.</p>
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<p align="center" class="style26">THE NEED FOR A NEW SHARED VISION</p>
<p>We use the word “comprehensive” a lot. We have comprehensive guidance, a comprehensive approach, we are comprehensive, but what are we actually comprehensive about? What are we guiding? And what is our approach for? Are we using a nice frame because we don’t have a Caravaggio to put into the frame? Sometimes I get the impression
that this is what we are doing. I believe Ambassador Eldon described the situation properly: we no longer have, and need to craft, a new shared vision of what to do in the future.</p>
<p>We have new challenges. General James Jones talked about some of them, including energy problems, the challenges of terrorism, the challenges of a flattening world, the challenge of globalization, the challenge of the information technology revolution, the challenge of the scarcity of resources, the challenge of the relationship
between Western heritage or culture and the emerging Muslim world, the challenge of relations with emerging powers such as China, India, east Asia, Mexico, and Brazil. I don’t believe we have the shared vision of how to meet these challenges.</p>
<p>At the core of the issue is the relationship between the U.S. and Europe. If we are not able to define more properly our common vision for the future, we will certainly have a problem, because the words “transformation” and “expeditionary” are very nice mantra words but nothing more. It is nice for the military to be expeditionary, and it is nice for it to be transformational. But then what? Transformations are not missions, expeditions are not missions. They are only tools for
missions that we must define.</p>
<p >Now is the time to start thinking about the way to acquire a new covenant, a new strategic concept, between Europe and the United States, but not because we want to have a nice piece of paper. When you sit down to write a new strategic concept, you are forced to think, to reflect, to debate, to discuss, and, eventually, to share. Sharing is critical, because if we don’t share, then we will have no shared vision and therefore no shared future. Developing a new strategic concept is really a way
to forge a common understanding of how to tackle the future.</p>
<p align="center" class="style26">CONCLUDING REMARKS</p>
<p>Are Europe and the United States, as Kagan defined, Mars and Venus? I don’t know, but if we don’t tackle the issues I’ve just mentioned, then we will go nowhere. During the Cold War, we had a clear vision for confronting and containing the Warsaw Pact countries. I don’t believe we have that clear vision now, and it is time to try to find it.
Ambassador Jean Ponton d’Amecourt said there are some great leaders who are able to change the flow of events, and we need their strong ideas to bring us together. What is the mission of NATO? If we don’t have a new mission, we don’t have a new covenant between Europe and the United States, and we will not have
a shared future.</p>
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