Dear colleagues!

         Foreign Policy Research institute, with the assistance of the Directorate General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions s, invites you to take part in a roundtable discussion for foreign diplomatic missions and experts on the topic: ‘Ukraine's National Security in the Context of NATO's Strategic Uncertainty’, which will be held on 28 August 2024, 11:00-13:10, at the press centre of the Directorate General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions at 6-a Pirogova St.

The following issues will be discussed during the roundtable:

1. What security issues were highlighted at the Washington (2024) NATO Summit?

2. Strengthening ‘deterrence and defence’ as the main principle of NATO, given that deterrence no longer works, and defence is seen as avoiding a clash with Russia;

3. Avoiding a confrontation with Russia does not mean ‘defending’ or ‘winning’, but is perceived as a hidden surrender. How can this dilemma be overcome?

4. What is the role of Ukraine in the implementation of ‘deterrence and defence’? NATO's ‘deterrence and defence’ according to the decisions of the Washington Summit (2024): ‘buffer zone’, “strategic periphery”, or “outpost” of the Alliance's eastern flank?

5. What does the change in narratives about Ukraine's prospects for NATO membership mean: from ‘the door is open for Ukraine’, ‘Ukraine will be a NATO member’ to ‘Ukraine is on an irreversible path to NATO membership’ and ‘the Summit decision is a bridge to NATO membership’?

6. What does the concept of a ‘bridge’ mean: NATO membership instead of MAP and EAP, or entry that is not allowed for Ukraine?

7.  Long-term assistance commitments instead of Ukraine's collective defence and on what principles they will be fulfilled:

- We will help as much as necessary to ensure that Ukraine ‘does not lose / does not win’;

- we will help as much as necessary for Ukraine to ‘win’;

- we will help as much as possible;

- we will help as much as we want and as we want.

8. Ways to ensure Ukraine's national security and defence in the event that NATO loses its international and geopolitical subjectivity:

- individual defence based on limited assistance from NATO members;

- involvement in building European strategic autonomy;

- creation of a regional security complex in Central and Eastern Europe with the involvement of the United Kingdom.

The event will be attended by:

Oleksandr KHARA,  Director of the Centre for Defence Strategies;

Yevgeny MAGDA, Director of the Institute of World Policy, PhD in Political Science;

Serhiy SOLODKY, First Deputy Director of the “New Europe” Centre;

Valentyn BADRAK, Director of the Centre for Army, Conversion and Disarmament;

Yaroslava SHVECHIKOVA, Assistant of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of the Educational and Research Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, PhD in Political Science;

Mykola SUNGUROVSKY, Director of Military Programmes at the Razumkov Centre

Working language: Ukrainian with simultaneous interpretation into English. Please confirm your participation in the roundtable by 26.08.2024. For registration, please contact:

Email: pgrigoriy@ukr.net; institute-fpri@ukr.net .
Tel: +38 0974872000; + 287-52-58.