EWI is working to help reshape and refine Euro-Atlantic security arrangements, a pressing need given recent destabilizing events such as the Russia-Georgia conflict of August 2008. We are seizing a number of significant opportunities to accomplish our goal, including new leadership in Russia and the U.S., a new NATO Secretary General committed to the development of a new security concept, and recent initiatives such as Russian President Dimitri Medvedev’s proposal for a new pan-European security pact.

Our short-term goal is to develop concrete, structural tools to help strengthen regional security in preparation for negotiations at the OSCE Ministerial Council and the next NATO summit.

In the first stage of the initiative, EWI assembled a working group of prominent specialists from Europe, Russia and the United States for a series of conversations that culminated in the publication of Euro-Atlantic Security: One Vision, Three Paths. This report outlines possible directions for a European security architecture and new, practical measures to promote Euro-Atlantic security. EWI presented the report to foreign ministers of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe at their informal meeting on 27th of June in Corfu, Greece. The final report reflects comments and contributions from a number of other specialists and officials from the OSCE, NATO and other European institutions.

The report is the first in a series of publications EWI will produce as we work towards consensus on a common strategic vision for Euro-Atlantic security. Meanwhile, EWI and members of the working group of experts are promoting our work in our networks and in the international press.

At the end of 2009, EWI will convene several meetings to polish the conceptual and practical recommendations presented in the report.