Friday, May 13 |
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18:00-19:15 | Opening session |
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| | Making Values CountAudio | Video | Transcript |
| |  Toomas Hendrik Ilves President of the Republic of Estonia
György Schöpflin Member of the European Parliament for Hungary Lilia Shevtsova Senior Associate, Moscow Carnegie Center Kurt Volker Managing Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Moderated by: Edward Lucas International Editor, The Economist |
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| 19:20 | Transfer to the Kumu Art Museum |
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| 19:30 | Dinner, hosted by President of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves |
| |  Keynote speaker: Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden
(By invitation only) |
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Saturday, May 14 |
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8:00-9:30 | Breakfast sessions (held under the Chatham House Rule) |
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| | Nordic-Baltic Security Co-operation: Supplementing or Supplanting NATO? |
| |  Alyson Bailes Visiting Professor, University of Iceland in Reykjavik
Artis Pabriks Minister of Defence, Deputy Prime Minister, Latvia James J. Townsend Jr. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, U.S Department of Defense Krister Wahlbäck Ambassador (ret.), Professor Emeritus, Foreign Ministry, Sweden; University of Umeå, Sweden Moderated by: Tomas Ries Senior Lecturer, Swedish National Defence College |
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| | Cyber Defence: From Hype to Implementation |
| | Jaak Aaviksoo Minister of Education and Research of Estonia Kenneth Geers U.S. Representative, Cooperative Cyber Defence, Centre of Excellence (CCD CoE) Jamie Shea Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges Division, NATO HQ Moderated by: Francois Gere President, Institut Français d’Analyse Stratégique (IFAS) |
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| | China’s Role in the World: Global Citizen or Mercantile Bully |
| |  Jia Qingguo Professor, Associate Dean of the School of International Studies, Beijing University
Lars Fredén Swedish Ambassador to China and to Mongolia Bobo Lo Independent Scholar and Consultant Fedor Lukyanov Editor-in-Chief, Russia in Global Affairs Moderated by: Karlis Neretnieks Senior Researcher, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) |
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| | Pie in the Sky: The Politics of NATO’s Missile Defence |
| | Robert Nurick Consultant and Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council Robert Pszczel Director, NATO Information Office in Moscow Dmitri Trenin Director, Carnegie Moscow Center Celeste Wallander Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine & Eurasia, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense Moderated by: Merle Maigre Policy Planning Unit, Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO HQ |
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9:30-11:00 | Panel discussion |
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| | Europe's Economy: Pain, Gain and Lessons (Not) Learned Audio | Video | Transcript |
| |  Anders Åslund Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Francois Bujon de l´Estang Senior International Adviser, Citigroup Valdis Dombrovskis Prime Minister of Latvia Siim Kallas Vice-President, European Commission Moderated by: Steven Erlanger Journalist, The New York Times |
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| | Coffee |
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11:30-13:00 | Panel discussion |
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| | EU Foreign Policy: Failing, Flailing or Finding Its Feet? Audio | Video | Transcript |
| |  Carl Bildt Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Steven Everts Member of the Vice President Catherine Ashton’s Cabinet Wolfgang Ischinger Global Head Government Relations, Allianz SE Karel Kovanda Former Deputy Director General, External Relations, European Commission Moderated by: Jackson Diehl Deputy Editorial Page Editor, The Washington Post |
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13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
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14:00-16:00 | Optional events: |
| |  • Tour of Tallinn's Old Town, guided by Estonian Defence Minister Mart Laar
• Tour of the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (number of participants is limited) • "Soviet heritage" tour • "Wooden Tallinn" - tour of early 20th century Kalamaja residential area |
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16:00-17:30 | Panel discussion |
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| | Will the Arab Spring Wither or Bloom? Audio | Video | Transcript |
| |  Rania Al Malky Editor-in-Chief, Daily News Egypt
Jackson Diehl Deputy Editorial Page Editor, The Washington Post Mohamed Elagati Researcher & Executive Director, Arab Forum for Alternatives (AFA) Heather Grabbe Director, Open Society Institute – Brussels Moderated by: Kurt Volker Managing Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO |
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| | Coffee |
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17:45-19:15 | Panel discussion |
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| | Be Careful What You Wish For: Russia's Multipolar Blues Audio | Video | Transcript |
| |  Ivan Krastev Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
Bobo Lo Independent Scholar and Consultant Dmitri Trenin Director, Carnegie Moscow Center Celeste Wallander Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine & Eurasia, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense Moderated by: Robert Cottrell Founder, The Browser |
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| 19:30-20:00 | |
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20:00 | Networking dinner in the conference hotel |
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21:30 | Night-Owl sessions (held under the Chatham House Rule) |
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| | Ukraine: Can the West Stop the Downward Spiral? |
| | Anders Åslund Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics David Kramer Executive Director, Freedom House, Washington, DC Hryhoriy Nemyria Former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Foreign Policy Adviser to Yulia Tymoshenko, All-Ukrainian Union ‛Batkivshchyna’ Andrew Wilson Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations Moderated by: Per Carlsen Ambassador of Denmark to Latvia |
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| | False Posture? NATO after the American Drawdown |
| |  Janusz Bugajski Director, CSIS New European Democracies Project and Senior Fellow of the Europe Program
Jüri Luik Permanent Representative of Estonia to NATO Paul Schulte Non-Resident Senior Associate/Senior Visiting Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/King's College London James J. Townsend Jr. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense Moderated by: General (ret.) Sir Garry Johnson Chairman, International Security Advisory Board (ISAB) |
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| | Russia’s Leadership and 2012: Election, Selection or Ejection? |
| |  Andrei Illarionov Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity
Boris Nemtsov Former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Andrei Piontkovsky Leading Researcher, Institute for Systems Studies Lilia Shevtsova Senior Associate, Moscow Carnegie Center Moderated by: Marie Mendras Professor, Sciences Po University, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales |
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| | Right on? Do the New Radical Parties Challenge the Consensus - or the System? |
| | Steven Erlanger Jounalist, The New York Times Iivi Anna Masso Editor-in-Chief, Diplomaatia newspaper
Ivan Krastev Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies
György Schöpflin Member of the European Parliament for Hungary
Moderated by: Graham Avery Senior Adviser, European Policy Centre, Brussels |
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Sunday, May 15 |
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08:00-09:30 | Breakfast sessions (held under the Chatham House Rule) |
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| | Middle Eastern Geopolitics in an Age of Change |
| | Owen Alterman Associate, International Law and National Security Program, Institute for National Security Studies, Israel Hossein Bastani Political Analyst and Multimedia Producer, BBC WORLD Mohamed Elagati Researcher & Executive Director, Arab Forum for Alternatives (AFA) Ilter Turan Professor of Political Science, Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi Univesity Moderated by: Sven Mikser Member of the Estonian Parliament |
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| | Less Money but Better Ideas: How to Revive the Eastern Partnership? |
| |  Leila Alieva President, Center for National and International Studies, Azerbaijan
Heather Grabbe Director, Open Society Institute – Brussels Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia Eka Tkeshelashvili State Minister of Georgia for Reintegration, Vice Prime Minister of Georgia Moderated by: Dag Hartelius Permanent Representative of Sweden to the EU |
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| | Is Shale a Game Changer? Environmental and Economic Aspects of Unconventional Hydrocarbons |
| | Jeremy Boak Director, Center for Oil Shale Technology & Research (COSTAR) Colorado School of Mines Sandor Liive CEO, Estonian Energy Company Alan Riley Professor, City Law School Moderated by: Pauls Raudseps Commentator, weekly magazine Ir |
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| | Lostpolitik: Can Germany Rise to Its Leadership Challenge? |
| |  Thomas Bagger Office of the Foreign Minister, German Foreign Ministry, Berlin
Michael Haltzel Senior Fellow , Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Peter Semneby Former EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Constanze Stelzenmüller Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States in Berlin Moderated by: Tuomas Forsberg Professor, University of Tampere |
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09:30-11:00 | Panel discussion |
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| | Geopolitics, Corruption and Credibility: Securing Europe's Energy Supply Audio | Video | Transcript |
| |  Andrius Kubilius Prime Minister of Lithuania
Vladimir Milov Chairman, Democratic choice movement Keith Smith Senior Associate, New European Democracies Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies Vladimir Socor Senior Fellow, Jamestown Foundation, Washington Moderated by: Edward Lucas International Editor, The Economist |
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| | Coffee |
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11:25-12:55 | Panel Discussion |
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| | NATO in Libya: What Are We in For? Audio | Video | Transcript |
| |  Jüri Luik Permanent Representative of Estonia to NATO
Fedor Lukyanov Editor-in-Chief, Russia in Global Affairs Constanze Stelzenmüller Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States in Berlin James Jr Townsend Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense Ahmet Üzümcü Director-General, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Moderated by: Steven Erlanger Jounalist, The New York Times |
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13:00 | Closing session |
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| |  Keynote speech: Lennart Meri Lecture,
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia Full Speech Text | Audio | Video Final words: General (ret.) Sir Garry Johnson, Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the ICDS |
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13:45 | Farewell lunch |
