The New Security Dimensions: Europe after the NATO and EU Enlargements
Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Editor

Stockholm International Peach Research Institute

April 2001

Preface

This report summarizes the discussions and main findings of an inter-national conference on The New Security Dimensions: Europe after the NATO and EU Enlargements, which was held at Frösundavik, Sweden, on 20-21 April 2001. The Frösunda Conference was organized by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in cooperation with the Swedish National Defence College and the Warsaw Centre for International Relations. It was co-sponsored by the Ministries for Foreign Affairs of Sweden and Poland.

The conference brought together security analysts from more than a dozen countries. Among the participants were academics and practitioners from governments, European Union (EU) institutions and a number of other international organizations; the programme and the list of participants are presented in appendices 2 and 3. The background papers and more than 20 panel presentations facilitated the discussion in the three working ses-sions of the conference. The position of the Swedish EU Presidency is reflected in the opening address delivered by Sven-Olof Petersson in his capacity as Director-General for Political Affairs at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The working sessions were supplemented by a keynote speech by former US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott.

The main task of the conference was to draw attention to the significance and consequences for European security of the processes of enlargement of both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the EU, especially for the states which remain outside these security structures (session one). Important contributions were therefore made to the discussions by represen-tatives of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus as well as Estonia, Lithuania, other European states and the United States. In the context of enlargement, two critical issues were addressed: the present and prospective impact of the developing European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) on conflict pre-vention and crisis management beyond the EU borders (session two) and the redefinition of the transatlantic partnership (session three). The papers pro-vided by the panellists are reproduced in this publication. They are preceded by three sets of questions which were submitted by the organizers of the conference with the aim of focusing the discussion on specific issues. The Summary of the discussions of the Frösunda Conference, prepared by SIPRI researchers Shannon Kile and Zdzislaw Lachowski, follows the papers of the panellists.

The Chairman of the SIPRI Governing Board, Ambassador Rolf Ekeus, chaired the first session, devoted to "European security: consequences of NATO and EU enlargements; the second session, on "ESDP beyond the EU borders: conflict prevention and crisis management, was chaired by Professor Bo Huldt, Director of the Institute for National Defence and Security Studies at the Swedish National Defence College; and the third ses-sion, on "Redefinition of the transatlantic partnership: in search of a new grand strategy", was chaired by Joseph Fitchett, columnist for The International Herald Tribune, Paris.

The findings of the Frösunda Conference reflected in this report and in other background materials were presented to the Swedish Presidency with a request to disseminate them to all the EU states and other interested gov-ernments.

There are many people whose collective efforts should be acknowledged. I would like to thank all those who took part in the Frösunda Conference and contributed significantly to its success. My special thanks go to the authors of the papers and to the group of SIPRI researchers-Ian Anthony, Renata Dwan, Shannon N. Kile and Zdzislaw Lachowski-whose assistance at all stages of the work was invaluable. I wish to thank all the other members of the SIPRI staff for their significant support-especially Carol Barta, my secretary, and Marie Alani, Bibbi Henson, Alexander Vetsko and Sten Wiksten-for their assistance in organizing the Frösunda Conference. I am also indebted to editor Jetta Gilligan Borg, editorial assistant Anna Lundeborg and Head of the SIPRI Editorial and Publications Department Connie Wall for producing this report so quickly. Last, but not least, I wish to thank both the Ministries for Foreign Affairs of Sweden and Poland and the Swedish National Defence College, whose generous support made both the Frösunda Conference and the publication of this report possible.

Adam Daniel Rotfeld
Director of SIPRI
June 2001

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