2018 Conference Agenda

North Atlantic Council

  • Toward a new Strategic Concept
  • NATO's southern flank: Syria, Iraq, and the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS
  • NATO's eastern flank: reassuring allies and deterring Russia
  • NATO's contribution to counterterrorism efforts
  • NATO and European/global migration: a strategic perspective

Political Committee

  • Relations with the European Union (advancing the 2016 Joint Declaration)
  • Enlargement (1): Georgia and Ukraine
  • Enlargement (2): Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • NATO intelligence sharing for decision-making

Military Committee

  • Assurance measures (Readiness Action Plan, Very-High Readiness Joint Task Force, Enhanced Forward Presence, Tailored Forward Presence)
  • Investing in defence: burden-sharing and the 2% GDP defence spending pledge
  • Ballistic missile defence
  • NATO exercise schedule, 2018 and beyond
  • Afghanistan: allied contributions to Operation Resolute Support
  • Maritime security: an enhanced NATO role in the Mediterranean and Black Seas

Nuclear Planning Group

  • The future of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe
  • Contemporary nuclear threats
  • Updating the Deterrence and Defence Posture Review (DDPR)
  • Nuclear exercises
  • NATO no-first use
  • Nuclear-powered commercial and military vessels in the High North

Partnerships and Cooperative Security Committee

  • Restructuring partnerships (PfP, Maghreb, Gulf, and Global Partners)
  • NATO's relations with NORDEFCO and the African Union
  • Integrating NATO partners in NATO operations: advancing the Partnership Interoperability Initiative
  • NATO capacity building: a role in post-ISIS Iraq

Committee on Emerging Security Challenges

  • NATO's role in energy security
  • NATO's role in Arctic security
  • A NATO role in responding to famine, pandemics, and natural disasters
  • NATO and cyber-security
  • NATO and European/global migration
  • NATO and climate change