CSDR 24th International Workshop on Global Security, Michele Alliot-Marie, Franz-Josef Jung, General Henri Bentegeat, General James L. Jones, General George Joulwan, Borys Tarasyuk, Jean de Ponton d'Amécourt, General Rainer Schuwirth, General Egon Ramms, Louis Gallois, Denis Ranque, BDLI, Berlin Air Show, EADS, Northrop Grumman, Microsoft

Paris '07 Workshop
		24th International Workshop on Global Security - Paris, France June, 2007 Opening Speaker: General Henri Bentégeat, President of the EU Military Committee (and former French Armed Forces Chief of Staff) Major speakers of the Paris Workshop included Georgian Vice Prime Minister Giorgi Baramidze, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk, Estonian Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo, Albanian Defense Minister Fatmir Mediu, Bulgarian Defense Minister Veselin Bliznakov, Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili, Italian Chief of Defense Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, Polish Chief of Defense General Franciszek Gagor, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) Chief of Staff General Rainer Schuwirth, Allied Joint Force Commander Gen. Egon Ramms, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) General George Joulwan, former SACEUR General James Jones, OSCE Dir Gen Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, OPCW Dir. Gen. Rogelio Pfirter, British Amb to NATO Stewart Eldon, Spain's NATO Amb Pablo Benavides Orgaz, Italian Amb to NATO Stefano Stefanini, Russian Amb to the EU Vladimir Chizhov, Algeria’s U.N. Amb. Youcef Yousfi, Hunary's UN Ambassador Gabor Brodi, Pakistan’s U.N. Ambassador Munir Akram, French Defense Ministry Dir. of Strategic Affairs Jean de Ponton d’Amécourt, U.K. Special Representative for Climate Change John Ashton, Thales Senior VP Dr. Edgar Buckley, Alenia Aeronautica CEO Ing. Giovanni Bertolone, Lockheed Martin Senior VP Robert Trice, Northrop Grumman IT Global President Kent Schneider, Microsoft Exec Dir Tim Bloechl, EADS Chief Operating Officer Mr. Marwan Lahoud, U.S. Assistant to the Sec of Def Dr. Arthur T. Hopkins, U.S. Director for International Cooperation Mr. Alfred Volkman, U.S. Dep Asst Sec Robert Lentz, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Hon. John Grimes. To view the Paris Workshop papers click on authors below, or, browse by author on the right sidebar. Photos of Opening Speakers and Special Events - click here Photos of Panels - NATO After Riga; NATO-UN-EU, Black Sea Region - click here Photos of Panels - Cyber Defense, Armaments Coop, & Way Ahead - click here
Global Security in Crisis, the proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Global Security, Paris, 2007.

Patron and Key Speakers of the Paris '07 Workshop

French Defense Minister
Hervé Morin
Patron of the 24th International Workshop on Global Security

General Henri Bentégeat, President of the EU Military Committee and former Chief of French General Staff said that "..the number of major international players is increasing...military action has reached its limits and ...military operations are getting more complex..."

Mr. Jean d'Amécourt, France's Director for Strategic Affairs, welcomed participants to the Hotel National des Invalides (photo above).

Berlin ’06 Workshop
German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung Argues that “Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Iran, Africa, Kosovo” show the need for “security policy that addresses global security” and includes “NATO, the EU, and the U.N.”	23rd International Workshop on Global Security - Berlin, May 2006 Keynote Speaker: German Minister of Defense Franz Josef Jung The 23rd International Workshop was presented in association with the ILA Berlin Air Show in May 2006. Speakers included Minister Franz Josef Jung, Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli, Hellenic Defense Minister Evangelos Meimarakis, Slovenian Defense Minister Karl Erjavec, Albanian Defense Minister Fatmir Mediu, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk, Supreme Allied Commander Europe General James Jones, SHAPE Chief of Staff Gen. Rainer Schuwirth, Allied Joint Force Commander Gen. Gerhard Back, former SACEUR General George Joulwan; former NATO Mil. Comm. Chairman Gen. Harald Kujat, Italian Chief of Defense Staff Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola; EU Military Staff’s Director-General Lt. Gen. Jean-Paul Perruche, Pakistan’s U.N. Ambassador Munir Akram, U.S. Amb. to NATO Victoria Nuland, China’s IISS Vice Chair Maj. Gen. Zhan Maohai, U.N. Under-Secretary-General Nobuaki Tanaka, Russia’s Colonel-General Anatoly Ignatievich Mazurkevich, U.S. Director of International Cooperation Al Volkman, and U.S. Prin. Dep. Assistant Secretary of Defense Linton Wells II.	Workshop venues included the Pergamon Museum (above) and the Reichstag. The Pergamon houses important collections of Greek, Roman, Babylonian, and Islamic art.
			ILA Berlin Air Show

Paris ’05 Workshop

French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie invited the Workshop to Paris in June 2005.	22nd International Workshop on Global Security - Paris, June 2005 Keynote Speaker: French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie Principal speakers: UK Defense Minister John Reid, Canadian Defense Minister Bill Graham, NATO Military Committee Chairman General Harald Kujat, designated NATO Military Committee Chairman General Raymond Henault, French Director of Strategic Affairs Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Sir Mark Stanhope, SHAPE Chief of Staff General Rainer Schuwirth, NATO Commander General Gerhard Back, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe General George Joulwan, former NATO Military Committee Chairman General Klaus Naumann, EADS Executive Vice President Jean-Louis Gergorin, Chair of House of Commons Select Committee on Defense The Rt Hon Bruce George.	Britain's Defense Secretary John Reid argues that the complexity of issues and threats means that "military response can only be one part of the solution."

Berlin '04 Workshop

German Defense Minister Peter Struck
warns that "religious hatred, WMDs, and terrorism-related fanaticism blend with poverty, ethnic antagonism, and faults in social structures."

21st International Workshop on Global Security - Berlin, May 2004
Keynote Address: German Defense Minister Peter Struck
NATO Military Committee Chairman General Harald Kujat, Supreme Allied Commander Europe General James Jones, U.S. Ambassador to NATO William Burns, U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Michael Wynne, Asst. Secretary of Defense Linton Wells, Italian Chief of Defense Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, Romanian Defense Minister Ioan Mircea Pascu, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul, Bulgarian Defense Minister Nikolai Svinarov, Georgian Defense Minister Gela Bezhuashvili, and Lithuanian Defense Minister Linas Linkevicius were among the principal speakers.

	General Harald Kujat says "WMDs and the growing capabilities gap...are causing a shift toward asymmetric threats."

	SACEUR General James Jones wants improvements in the capability-usability gap, military resouces, national caveats, and intelligence.

Download compete workshop papers in PDF format (1.14 megabites).
Shortcut to Overview by Workshop Chairman Roger Weissinger-Baylon and Keynote by German Defense Minister Peter Struck.

About the Center for Strategic Decision Research (CSDR)

The Center for Strategic Decision Research is a small research institute located near Stanford University in Menlo Park, California. For over twenty years, CSDR has presented an annual forum--presently called The International Workshop on Global Security--in major European cities. These workshops bring together political, military, industry, and academic leaders from North American, European, Asian, and African countries to discuss global security challenges on an informal and not-for-attribution basis. Participants have included the heads of state or government of Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Luxembourg, Romania, and Bulgaria, as well as foreign ministers, defense ministers, ambassadors, military leaders, business leaders, academics, and representatives from the European Union, NATO, the OSCE, and the United Nations. CSDR has recently sponsored annual conferences at Stanford University on the Horn of Africa and has long-term interests in finding ways to better transatlantic and global relations. In January 2006, CSDR also held a workshop in Paris, France in partnership with the French Defense Ministry on the evolving roles of NATO, the EU, and ESDP.

CSDR is currently interested in the development and communication of Alliance strategy for the coming decade in order to address the challenges of global terrorism--including not only growing asymmetric threats but also the genuine danger of nuclear hyperterrorist attacks that could threaten our civilization. Among the many requirements for such a strategy are improved transatlantic relations (which depends on reconciling the radically different world views found in Europe and North America), defense industrial cooperation among allies (as a basis for joint operational capability), and the need for a successful policy in the greater middle east (which cannot be achieved without progress toward peace between Israel and Palestine). International organizations, as well as treaties and other agreements, must be strengthened to slow the proliferation of WMDs. Above all, the struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means alone: underlying causes must be understood and addressed as well.

CSDR Principals
Roger Weissinger-Baylon, Ph.D., Workshop Chairman and Founder, roger@csdr.org
Anne D. Baylon, LL.B., M.A., Co-Director, anne@csdr.org
M. Lin Wu, J.D., Senior Manager, mlinhuawu@yahoo.com

Contact Information
Main US headquarters: 2456 Sharon Oaks Dr., Menlo Park, CA 94025 Tel: 1/650/854-4751, Fax: 1/650/854-0761
French office: 45 bis Rue des Acacias, 75017 Paris, France Tel: 33/1/43.80.61.20

Patrons and Keynote Speakers

1997 Workshop Patron:
Czech President Václav Havel
1996 Workshop Patron:
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski
1994-1997 Honorary Workshop Chairman:
Supreme Allied Commander Europe General George Joulwan

2005 Workshop Patron and Keynote Speaker:
French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie
2004 Keynote Speaker:
German Defense Minister Peter Struck
2002-2004 Honorary Workshop Chairman:
EADS co-CEO Rainer Hertrich

Former SACEUR General George Joulwan
told the 21st Berlin Workshop participants that hyperterrorism is a potential threat to civilization.

EADS co-CEO Rainer Hertrich
states that "with the shocking terrorist attacks in Madrid, Europeans learned that we are not immune to international terrorism."

Principal Workshop Sponsors

U.S. Under Secretary AT&L Michael Wynne Industrial cooperation with allies is a "fundamental step for improving joint operational capabilities." It is "not only desirable but an imperative."		The 24th International Workshop on Global Security will be presented by the Center for Strategic Decision Research in Paris, France in June 2007 with the principal sponsorship of the French Ministry of Defense, EADS, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Department of Defense, and with additional major sponsorship by Alenia Aeronautica SpA, The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin, MBDA Missile Systems, MITRE Corporation, and Thales. IAP Worldwide Services is an associate sponsors. The Center for Strategic Decision Research acknowledges the support of current and past sponsoring governments: Czech Republic, Kingdom of Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Republic of Greece, Republic of Hungary, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Kingdom of Norway, Republic of Poland, Republic of Portugal, Austrian Ministry of Defense, French Ministry of Defense, Italian Ministry of Defense, and the Canadian Armed Forces.