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Le 16 février 2009 s'est tenu à Bruxelles à l'initiative de SDA (cf. sur le blog l'article qui présente SDA : http://www.regards-citoyens.com/article-29210195.html), un séminaire de haut niveau sur le thème : "Assessing the value of security strategy reviews".

Deux sessions ont permis d'aborder ce sujet de manière ouverte et contradictoire :

Session I : After the recent ESDP review, what should we expect of the NATO summit ?

The "review" by Javier Solana of his 2003 European Security Strategy (ESS) endorsed by EU leaders last December was, most analysts seemed to agree, far from radical. It underlined Europe's growing role as a force for global stability and drew attention to new security-related challenges like climate change, access to energy, cyber attacks and piracy on the high seas. But it skated lightly over such sensitive issues as EU-NATO relations other than to say their strategic partnership must be deepened. Can we now expect NATO to use its 60th anniversary summit in April to draw a more detailed map of the West's security interests and commitments ? With its ISAF mission in Afghanistan failing to deliver either security or reconstruction, is a restatement of NATO's security doctrine overdue ?

Session II : Are security strategies a growing embarrassment to policymakers ?

When the European Security Strategy was set forth five years ago it marked an important step in the EU's development. In the absence of clear-cut treaty commitments by member states to the Union's defence and security activities, the ESS provided a much-needed political basis for the drive to improve its defence industries and extend its military outreach. And although NATO has a very firm treaty base, of course, it was fashioned for Cold War challenges rather than 21st Century ones. With transatlantic and NATO-EU relations increasingly complex and volatile, are such security doctrines more a potential source of trouble than a foreign policy bedrock ? How strong a case is there for radical and complementary reviews of both the ESS and NATO doctrines ?

La synthèse des débats a été publiée dans un document consultable à l'adresse suivante : 
http://www.securitydefenceagenda.org/Portals/7/2009/Publications/Report%20security%20strategy%20reviews.pdf