Publications

NATO and the Greater Middle East

01.12.2006

 The first annual conference of PSSI's Program of Atlantic Security Studies (PASS) inaugurated the tradition of high-level policy conferences on current geo-strategic issues challenging the Transatlatlantic partners. Being attended by nearly fifty foreign policy experts, the conference focused on the then widely debated issue of NATO’s engagement in the Greater Middle East region. Three years later, this question remains a significant part of the policy discourse on NATO’s future partnership and out of area missions. When preparing PSSI’s contribution to the 2006 NATO Summit in Riga, Latvia, it thus seemed natural to us to draw on our past initiative and reprint the summary of key conclusions of the conference. In addition, we decided to include the policy paper, which served as a basis for the conference debates. Our website offers the full version of the original conference proceedings .