Kharkiv Security 18. Cooperation with NATO as a State Security Enhancer
Channel: Maidan Monitoring
Date: 2021-07-10

April 14, 2021 we continued to discuss the different aspects of national security in time of hybrid war. This time we focused on the NATO – Ukraine Cooperation.

BLOCK 1. "7 Years of Russian Aggression: Developments in Ukraine and worldwide". 
- Changes in the perception of NATO in Ukraine
- Russia-NATO relations
- the threat of further Russian aggression

 BLOCK 2.  "Threats of a Non-Conventional Nature" 
- new security threats to NATO countries and Ukraine
- Article 5: is an unconventional attack on one NATO member an attack on all, and what the answer could be? ( f.e. 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia)
- NATO decision-making unanimity in the time of cyberattacks and disinformation

 BLOCK 3. “Future of Ukraine-NATO Cooperation”
- challenges for Ukraine to join NATO
- is the existence of uncontrolled and occupied territories an obstacle for joining NATO?
- the mutual benefits of cooperation 



Introduction
Brigitta Triebel, Head of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Ukraine (Kharkiv Office) 
Nataliya Zubar, Chair of Maidan Monitoring Information Center


Speakers:

Valeriy Kravchenko, Expert of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, Ukraine
Glen Grant. A hard nosed reform expert director operations for the World Trade Centre Kyiv and member of the Baltic Security Institute, Great Britain
Janusz Onyszkiewicz, former vice-president of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Poland
Mantas Macikas, Director of the Memel Institute. Policy Analyst, PhD student at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

Moderator – Andriy Karakuts, Head of the Centre for Applied Research