Strategic Outlook 2022: A Multinational Assessment
- Date
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- 5:00 PM -
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- Online
On Wednesday, 16 February, 2022, the Norwegian Atlantic Committee, in collaboration with the Netherlands Atlantic Association and the German Atlantic Association will organise a digital discussion titled "Strategic Outlook 2022".
Early 2022, Europe finds itself at a crossroads where Great-Power rivalry is increasingly shaping the international system of tomorrow. Russian troops are mobilizing along the Ukrainian border, China’s hegemonic actions in the South China Sea and U.S weakened leadership is among some of the driving forces for this development. NATO is in the process of developing a new “Strategic Concept”, while the European Union, under French leadership, simultaneously is working on its “Strategic Compass”, set to lay the framework of the organizations continuous efforts for the maintenance of peace and security.
A dynamic world order has shifted the traditional agenda, and multilateral organizations and allies must revisit their strategic outlooks.
To address the trends of Global Strategy, we are pleased to welcome three experts on international politics Monika Sie (The Netherlands), Constanze Stelzenmüller (Germany) and Ine Eriksen Søreide (Norway) to reflect upon the major strategic trends and themes to look out for this year. All three countries have relatively new governments and are close allies. Consequently, there is much common ground, but also differences to consider that will contribute to a fruitful discussion. The panel will reflect upon the effect of the ongoing geopolitical changes and the effect of the French Presidential election, the American mid-term elections as well as the implications this has on European politics and the transatlantic alliance. These and other issues will be discussed by the eminent panel on February 16th.
The discussion will be moderated by Sophie Derkzen, journalist and editor of international affairs at VPRO Public Broadcasting Service.
Ine Eriksen Søreide
Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide is a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party (Høyre) and has since 2005 been a Member of Parliament. Currently Eriksen Søreide chairs the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. Eriksen Søreide served as Norway’s first female Minister of Foreign Affairs (2017-2021) and was the Norwegian Minister of Defence from 2013-2017. She has also been a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, led the parliamentary delegation for the European Parliament, and led the European Committee in the Norwegian Parliament. Eriksen Søreide holds a Cand.jur from the University of Tromsø.
Constanze Stelzenmüller
Constanze Stelzenmüller is an expert on German, European, and trans-Atlantic foreign and security policy and strategy. She is the inaugural holder of the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations in the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings. From March 2020 to December 2020, she was a senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe. She held the Kissinger Chair on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress from October 2019 to March 2020. She served as the inaugural Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at Brookings from 2014 to 2019. Stelzenmüller holds a doctorate in law from the University of Bonn, a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a law degree from the University of Bonn.
Sophie Derkzen
Sophie Derkzen is a journalist and moderator with a fascination for international politics and culture. She hosts Foreign Desk (VPRO Bureau Buitenland), the daily foreign affairs program at the Dutch national NPO Radio 1. Previously, she worked as a political reporter for Vrij Nederland, as guest editor for Die Zeit and as policy officer at the political department of the Dutch Embassy in Berlin.
Monika Sie
Monika Sie is General Director of the Clingendael Institute and vice chair of the European Integration Committee of the Netherlands Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV). Sie worked as a researcher and project manager at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy from 1997 to 2007, where she focused on the European Union, development cooperation and democratic transition and consolidation. From 2008 to 2016, Sie was the director of the Wiardi Beckman Foundation, the Dutch social-democratic think tank. Sie studied and lectures political science at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and lectured in International Relations at Leiden University.