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LMC 2011

Nordic-Baltic Security Co-operation: Supplementing or Supplanting NATO?

NATO, Nordic-Baltic region, Security

Speakers

Alyson Bailes

Adjunct Professor, University of Iceland

Artis Pabriks

Deputy Prime Minister for Comprehensive Defence, Minister of Defence of Latvia

James J. Townsend

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

Moderator

Tomas Ries

Senior Lecturer at the National Defence College

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