Program of Atlantic Security Studies

The Prague Security Studies Institute established its Program of Atlantic Security Studies (PASS) in April 2003, to augment its Security Scholars Program and serve as the Institute’s public policy arm.

Central to the mission of the PSSI is strengthening the transatlantic partnership so that it is better equipped to cope with the highly complex security environment of the 21^st century. PASS aims to identify and analyze relevant foreign policy and security-related issues that affect the transatlantic community. These challenges involve considerably more than the political-military agenda and considerations of the previous century and are geographically and topically broader. Consequently, PASS events and publications have already covered a number of issue areas that have (e.g energy and business security, the future mandate of NATO, threats to the security of the Middle East and Central and Eastern Europe etc.), or will have (e.g space security, heightened tensions in the Asia-Pacific region etc.) profound impacts on the transatlantic security environment.

With its primary focus on organizing prestigious international conferences, roundtables, workshops and research, the PASS program creates venues to bring together high-level decision-makers, opinion leaders, and experts in a number of fields from different countries and disciplines that would, in many cases, not be exposed to one another under normal professional circumstances.

The PASS program of PSSI recognizes that it cannot hope to duplicate the kind of issue coverage accomplished by larger institutions, and therefore seeks to be highly selective and intelligent in its choices. Given its distinguished track record, the Institute remains confident that it can deliver genuine educational value to its audiences as well as the global security policy community. 

• Conferences
  
• Roundtables and Research