Transatlantic Security Forum: NATO, Russia, China: World Order and 21st Century Global Security Challenges
The Kozmetsky Center of Excellence St. Edward's University and the Center for European Studies and Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin will co-sponsor our seventh annual “Transatlantic Security Forum” entitled "NATO, Russia, China: World Order and 21st Century Global Security Challenges” on November 15-17, 2021 sponsored with support of the United States Department of Education Title VI National Resource Program. We are delighted to hold this seventh annual session in cooperation with the Public Diplomacy Engagement Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO, Research Committee on Geopolitics of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), and World Affairs Council Austin.
The forum will bring together international academics, defense experts and leaders of the policy/diplomatic community to discuss implications of shifting global relationships and world order for transatlantic and broader global security.
Among major topics, speakers will assess the impact of COVID19 to include discussion of
- Political systems
- Values and responsiveness to the pandemic
- Lessons of the withdrawal from the twenty-year war in Afghanistan
- Consequences of climate change
- Weapons proliferation and terrorism
- Regional clashes and conflicts
- Cyber and information security
- Competing visions of world order
- Geopolitical and security implications of shifting relationships among major powers
- And other topics of critical relevance to transatlantic and global security
Sponsored by: Kozmetsky Center (St. Edward's), CREEES, CES