The panel will focus on the strategic discourse of selected NATO member states with regards to the definitions of security and the visions of the role of military and non-military actors in terms of deterrence and defence. Based on the national defence and security strategies, we will discuss the characteristics of threats and risks identified by these states, as well as the degree of inclusion of civilian actors and the society in the provision of security. This will allow us to investigate the extent to which the approaches of frontline states are similar to and different from those of other NATO members.
The second part will address Finland's (formal) and Sweden's (prospective) membership in NATO as a direct result of Russia's full-scale aggression on Ukraine. As both of these states are becoming NATO's frontline states, we will assess the role of these newcomers in the Alliance's defence and deterrence strategy and their overall impact on NATO's strategic culture. Finally, the presentation will highlight key consequences of Finland's (and Sweden's) NATO accession for a new shape of the regional security architecture (i.e. the Baltic Sea as a security complex).
Meet the speakers and chair
Nicole Koenig is Head of Policy of the Munich Security Conference (MSC). She is an expert on EU foreign and security policy and Franco-German security cooperation. Before joining the MSC, she was Deputy Director of the Jacques Delors Centre at the Hertie School. Prior to that, she worked at various European think tanks and universities, including the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome, the Trans European Policy Studies Association in Brussels, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, and the Department of War Studies at King's College London. In 2019-20, she was also Europe's Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, and in 2022 she was a DAAD Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, D.C. Nicole completed her PhD on EU crisis management in Africa at the Universities of Cologne and Edinburgh. She holds a Master's degree in "EU International Relations and Diplomacy" from the College of Europe in Bruges and one in Politics and Management from the University of Constance.
Agata Mazurkiewicz holds a PhD in Political Science (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland) and is an assistant professor in the Institute of Political Science and International Relations at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her research interests include civil-military cooperation and interactions, resilience and NATO affairs. She was a principal investigator and researcher in several national and international research projects devoted to NATO, resilience, as well as civilian input into deterrence and defence. Her most recent publications include a research monograph entitled Civil-Military Cooperation in International Interventions: The Role of Soldiers (Routledge, 2022).
Wojciech Michnik is an assistant professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and a Transatlantic Project Coordinator of the Central and South-East Europe Programme at LSE IDEAS at JU. He is also the 2023-24 NATO Security Studies Fulbright Fellow at the University of Arizona. He served as an Eisenhower Defense Fellow (2019) at NATO Defense College; a Fulbright visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute (2015-2016); and a security policy analyst at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (2014). His main research interests include Transatlantic Security, NATO-Russia relations, and Great Power Competition in the Middle East. Wojciech Michnik holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Jagiellonian University.
Mary Kaldor is Professor Emeritus of Global Governance and Director of the Conflict and Civicness Research Group in LSE IDEAS at the London School of Economics. She is also the Director of the Carnegie funded research project: Investigating Non Nuclear Deterrence. She has pioneered the concepts of new wars and global civil society. Her elaboration of the real-world implementation of human security has directly influenced European and national governments. She is the author of many books and articles including New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Era (3rd edition, 2012), International Law and New Wars (with Christine Chinkin, 2017) and Global Security Cultures (2018).
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