Principal Sponsors: French Minister of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense (Net Assessment), NATO (Public Diplomacy), Center for Strategic Decision Research, and IHEDN (Institute for Higher Defense Studies in the French Prime Minister's Organization)

Major Sponsors: Lockheed-Martin, McAfee/Intel, MITRE, Tiversa, Area SpA, FireEye

Associate Sponsors: Kaspersky Lab, AECOM, Quantum Research International

Patrons and Keynote Speakers. View the recent Patrons, Keynote Speakers, and Advisory Board Members of the International Workshops on Global Security and the Center for Strategic Decision Research, including defense ministers, heads of state or government, senior military commanders, academics, and industry leaders.

Agenda of the 32nd Internatioanal Workshop on Global Security, Paris, 2015
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2015 Workshop Proceedings:
Click here to download the complete speeches of the 32nd International Workshop
(1.2 MB)

King's Council Chamber of the Hotel National des Invalides, Paris; Presentations and discussion during the 32nd Internatioanal Workshop on Global Security, Paris, November 2015

The 32nd International Workshop on Global Security was presented in Paris at the Hotel National des Invalides in November, 2015 with the Ptronage of French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. The workshop was organized in partnership with the Center for Strategic Decision Reseach, the Institut des hautes etudes de defense nationale (IHEDN) within the Prime Minister's organization, NATO (Public Diplomacy), the U.S. Department of Defense (Net Assessment), and other organizations including Lockheed Martin, McAfee/Intel, MITRE, Area SpA, FireEye, Tiversa, Kaspersky Lab, AECOM, and Quantum Research International.

Key speakers were Lieutenant General Bernard de Courrèges d’Ustou, Director,Institute for Higehr Defense Studies (IHEDN); Lieutenant General Heinrich Brauss, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Policy and Planning; Vice Admiral Arnaud Coustillière, General officer cyber defense, French Ministry of Defense; Mr. Guillaume Poupard, Director General, French National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI); Ambassador Sorin Ducaru, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges; Ambassador David Martinon, Ambassador for Cyber Diplomacy and the Digital Economy, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Vice Admiral Arnaud Coustillière, General officer cyber defense, French Ministry of Defense; Mr. Guillaume Poupard, Director General, French National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI); Ambassador Sorin Ducaru, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges; Ambassador David Martinon, Ambassador for Cyber Diplomacy and the Digital Economy, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Mr. Christian Gravel, Prefect, Director of the Government Information Service (SIG), Office of the French Prime Minister; Mr. Jean-Yves Latournerie, Cyber Prefect (Préfet, Conseiller du gouvernment, chargé de la lutte contre les cybermenaces), French Ministry of the Interior; Senator Jean-Marie Bockel, French Senate, Member of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces Committee; Former Secretary of State for Defense; Mr. Eduardo Rihan Cypel, Deputy (Seine-et-Marne), French National Assembly; Mr. Chris Painter, Coordinator for Cyber Issues, U.S. Department of State; Ms. Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar, Head of Cyber Policy Coordination, Conflict Prevention and Security Policy Directorate, European External Action Service; Dr. Steve Purser, Head of Core Operation Department, ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security); Ambassador Ihor Dolhov, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine; Mr. Ioan Mircea Pascu, Vice President of the European Parliament; Former Minister of Defense of Romania; Ambassador Oleh Shamshur; Ambassador of Ukraine to France; Mr. Ioan Mircea Pascu, Vice President of the European Parliament, Former Minister of Defense of Romania;Mr. Koen Gijsbers, General Manager, NATO Communications and Information Agency; Dr. Frederick Douzet, Castex Chair of Cyber Strategy, IHEDN; Général (Gendarmerie) Marc Watin-Augouard, Founder of the Forum International de la Cyber Security (FIC), Director, Center for Research, Officer School of the Gendarmerie Nationale; Ing. Général Daniel Argenson, Deputy Director, Institute for Higher Defense Studies (IHEDN); Ing. General Robert Ranquet, Former Deputy Director, Institute for Higher Defense Studies (IHEDN).

2014 Workshop Proceedings
New Challenges to Global Security: From Russia post-Crimea to Cyber Security post-Snowden
Anne D. Baylon, Editor

31st International Workshop on Global Security
Paris, France October, 2014. The 31st International Workshop on Global Security was presented in Paris in October, 2014 at the Hotel National des Invalides, with the High Patronage of Minister of Defense Jean-Yves Le Drian. The workshop was organized in partnership with the Center for Strategic Decision Reseach, the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN) within the Prime Minister's organization, NATO, the U.S. Department of Defense, and other organizations.

Key speakers included Lieutenant General Bernard de Courrèges d’Ustou, Director of the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN); General Patrick de Rousiers, Chairman of the European Union Military Committee and Military Advisor to the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs; Ambassador Terry Stamatopoulos, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy; Ms. Marietje Schaake, MEP, Member of the European Parliament (The Netherlands); Ambassador Sorin Ducaru, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges; General Hans-Lothar Domröse, Commander of Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum;Senator Alain Richard, French Senate (Val d‘Oise), former Minister of Defense of France; Senator Jean-Marie Bockel, French Senate, Member of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces Committee and former Secretary of State for Defense; Mr. Chris Painter, Coordinator for Cyber Issues, U.S. Department of State; Major General John Allen Davis, Acting U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy; Mr. Haden Land, Vice President, Research and Technology, Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Solutions; as well as Mr. James Wylly, Microsoft Corporation; and Mr. Maurice Cashman, McAfee, a part of Intel Security.

Principal Sponsors: French Minister of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense (Net Assessment), NATO (Public Diplomacy), Center for Strategic Decision Research, and IHEDN (Institute for Higher Defense Studies in the French Prime Minister's Organization)

Major Sponsors: Lockheed-Martin, McAfee a part of Intel Security,  Microsoft, MITRE, Fortinet,  Tiversa, Area SpA, Dyn, Tenable Network Security

Associate Sponsors: Kaspersky Lab, FireEye, URS, Quantum Research International, Middlebury Institute of International Studies

2014 Workshop Proceedings:
Click here to download the complete speeches and photos of the 31st International Workshop (6.2 MB)

His Excellency Jean-Yves Le Drian
Minister of Defense of France

Patron of the 31st International Workshop on Global Security.

2012 Workshop Proceedings:
Critical Challenges to Peace and Security: The Economic Crisis, the Arab Spring, Afghanistan & the Rapid Growth of Cyber Threats.
Anne D. Baylon, Editor

Click here to download the complete book of workshop speeches (approximately 6 MB): 2012 Rome Workshop Proceedings

Click here to view the 2012 Rome Workshop agenda
(1.7 MB).

29th International Workshop on Global Security
Rome, Italy July, 2012 With the high patronage of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and Minister of Defense Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola as well as the Honorary Chairmanship of Italy's Chief of Defense General Staff General Biagio Abrate, the 29th International Workshop on Global Security was presented in Rome, Italy in July 2012.

In addition to keynote speakers Defense Minister Giampaolo Di Paola, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Jane Holl Lute, and Finmeccanica CEO Giuseppe Orsi, invited speakers and participants included defense ministers, chiefs of defense general staff, other senior officials including political and military representatives to NATO, the EU, the UN, and representatives from industry. Nearly 30 countries from Europe, North America, and Asia participated. Themes for workshop discussions included the strategic implications of the current economic crisis, the "Arab Spring" in North Africa and the Middle East, as well as withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. There was an emphasis again this year on the challenges of cyber security and information technologies.

Principal Sponsors: Presidency of the Italian Republic, Italian Ministry of Defense, and the U.S. Department of Defense (Under Secretary of Defense-AT&L, Director of Net Assessment, National Defense University)
with
Cisco, McAffee | Intel and Finmeccanica.

Major Sponsors: AFCEA, ELT | Elettronica, MITRE, Northrop Grumman, Renesys, Resi Group, URS, University of Tennessee, IBM, Italware, SELEX Elsag, SELEX Sistemi Integrati

His Excellency
Giorgio Napolitano
President of Italy

Workshop Patron

His Excellency
Giampaolo Di Paola
Italian Minister of Defense

Patron and Keynote Speaker

General Biagio Abrate
Chief of Italian Defense General Staff

Honorary Chairman

The Honorable
Jane Holl Lute
U.S.Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security

Keynote Speaker

28th International Workshop on Global Security
"Global Security--The Risks of Strategic Surprise"
Paris, France June, 2011

In his role as Patron and Keynote Speaker of the 28th International Workshop on Global Security, His Excellency Gérard Longuet, France's Minister of Defense, welcomed the workshop to Paris for the third time to address the theme of "Global Security--The Risks of Strategic Surprise." He was joined by the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Honorable William J. Lynn III, who called attention to the growing challenge of cyber security--which will be one of the main themes of our 2012 Workshop in Rome, Italy.

2011 Workshop Proceedings:
GLOBAL SECURITY: The Risks of Strategic Surprise, Proceedings of the 28th International Workshop on Global Security
Anne D. Baylon, Editor.

Click here to download complete book (PDF, 3.9MB): 2011 Paris Workshop Proceedings

Click here to download complete book WITHOUT photos (PDF, 1.9MB)
Alternatively, you may request a complete complimentary copy by email: [email protected]

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Hs Excellency Gérard Longuet
Minister of Defense of France

Patron of the 28th International Workshop on Global Security and Keynote Speaker

The Honorable William Lynn III
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

27th International Workshop on Global Security
Berlin, Germany June, 2010

For the fifth time in its history, the workshop was invited to Berlin to address the theme of "Global Security—The Growing Challenges." Political leaders, including defense ministers, foreign ministers and heads of government, as well as senior UN, EU and NATO and other diplomats, military commanders, and academic experts from more than forty countries participated.

Workshop themes. As demonstrated by Iceland's volcanic eruption—or recent tragic earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, nations face a growing range of economic and security concerns on a global scale. In many cases, risks are impossible to predict. No longer limited to purely military threats, today's dangers arise from such highly diverse sources as the international financial system—which plunged the world into recession; natural disasters; energy security; scarcity of water, minerals, and other resources; poverty; drug, weapons, and human trafficking; and—above all—the lack of hope for a better future for millions across the globe. Such a wide range of threats cannot be addressed effectively in national capitals alone, nor in the prominent international institutions, since decisions are often sidetracked by interest groups or simply by their extreme complexity, unexpected nature, or lack of resources.

Global Security in Times of Economic Uncertainty, the proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Global Security, Istanbul, 2009.

26th International Workshop on Global Security
Istanbul, Turkey June, 2009

Click to download 2009 Workshop Proceedings: "Global Security in Times of Economic Uncertainty" (PDF, 3.2MB)

2009 Workshop Brochure (PDF, 2MB)
Slide show of photos from 2009 Workshop

Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül.

His Excellency
Ignazio La Russa
Italian Minister of Defense

Workshop Patron and Keynote Speaker

Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola
Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
Former Chief of Italian Defense General Staff

Workshop Chairman

Rt Hon Lord Des Browne, MP
Secretary of State for Defence
United Kingdom

25th International Workshop on Global Security
Rome, Italy June, 2008

Click to download the complete 2008 Workshop Proceedings: "Global Security: in Search of a New Vision" (PDF, 1.4MB)

Opening Speakers: Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (and former Chief of Staff of Italy), Italian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa, U.K.Defense Minister Rt. Hon. Des Brown, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül, Alenia Aeronautica Chairman Dr. Giorgio Zappa
Other major speakers of the Rome workshop included: Georgian Vice Prime Minister Giorgi Baramidze, Estonian Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo, Georgian Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili, Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk, Italian Chief of Defense General Vincenzo Camporini, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) Chief of Staff General Karl-Heinz Lather, Allied Joint Force Commander Admiral Mark Fitzgerald, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Admiral Luciano Zappata, Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) General George Joulwan, Deputy Secretary General of NATO Claudio Bisogniero, NATO Assistant Secretary General Peter Flory, British Ambassador to NATO Stewart Eldon, Italian Ambassador to NATO Stefano Stefanini, Turkish Ambassador to NATO Tacan Ildem, Pakistani Ambassador to the UN Munir Akram, Algerian Ambassador the UN Youcef Yousfi, Russian Ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov, Egyptian Ambassador to the EU Mahmoud Karem, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense Hon. John Grimes.

24th International Workshop on Global Security
Paris, France June, 2007
2007 Workshop Proceedings: "Global Security in Crisis: The Urgent Need for Strategies that Work" (PDF, 1.4MB)

General James Jones, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe(SACEUR) and currently the U.S. National Security Advisor

German Defense Minister
Franz Josef Jung, keynote speaker of the Berlin Workshop.

23rd International Workshop on Global Security - Berlin, May 2006
Keynote Speaker: German Minister of Defense Franz Josef Jung
The 23rd International Workshop was presented in association with the ILA Berlin Air Show in May 2006. Speakers included Minister Franz Josef Jung, Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli, Hellenic Defense Minister Evangelos Meimarakis, Slovenian Defense Minister Karl Erjavec, Albanian Defense Minister Fatmir Mediu, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk, Supreme Allied Commander Europe General James Jones, SHAPE Chief of Staff Gen. Rainer Schuwirth, Allied Joint Force Commander Gen. Gerhard Back, former SACEUR General George Joulwan; former NATO Mil. Comm. Chairman Gen. Harald Kujat, Italian Chief of Defense Staff Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola; EU Military Staff’s Director-General Lt. Gen. Jean-Paul Perruche, Pakistan’s U.N. Ambassador Munir Akram, U.S. Amb. to NATO Victoria Nuland, China’s IISS Vice Chair Maj. Gen. Zhan Maohai, U.N. Under-Secretary-General Nobuaki Tanaka, Russia’s Colonel-General Anatoly Ignatievich Mazurkevich, U.S. Director of International Cooperation Al Volkman, and U.S. Prin. Dep. Assistant Secretary of Defense Linton Wells II.

Workshop venues included the Pergamon Museum and the Reichstag. The Pergamon houses important collections of Greek, Roman, Babylonian, and Islamic art, including the Ischtar Gate from ancient Babylon (above).

Chantilly Follow-up Colloquium

This booklet contains the proceedings of the Chantilly Follow-up Colloquium which was held on 9 January 2006 in Paris, France at the Defense Ministry. It was presented by the Center for Strategic Decision Research and the Délégation aux Affaires Stratégiques, Ministère de Défense, with the aim of further developing the discussion topics of the 22nd International Workshop in Chantilly in June 2005 and preparing for the upcoming 23rd International Workshop in Berlin in May 2006.

Report: Proceedings of the Chantilly Follow-up Colloquium: Meeting the Security Challenges Ahead (PDF)
Edited by Caroline Baylon

Britain's Defense Secretary
Rt Hon John Reid
argues that the complexity of issues and threats means that "military response can only be one part of the solution."

German Defense Minister
His Excellency Peter Struck

21st International Workshop on Global Security - Berlin, May 2004
Keynote Address: German Defense Minister Peter Struck
NATO Military Committee Chairman General Harald Kujat, Supreme Allied Commander Europe General James Jones, U.S. Ambassador to NATO William Burns, U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Michael Wynne, Asst. Secretary of Defense Linton Wells, Italian Chief of Defense Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, Romanian Defense Minister Ioan Mircea Pascu, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul, Bulgarian Defense Minister Nikolai Svinarov, Georgian Defense Minister Gela Bezhuashvili, and Lithuanian Defense Minister Linas Linkevicius were among the principal speakers.

Download 2004 Workshop Proceedings (PDF, 1.14 MB.
Shortcut to Overview by Workshop Chairman Roger Weissinger-Baylon and Keynote by German Defense Minister Peter Struck

General Harald Kujat, Chairman of the NATO MIlitary Committee

General James Jones,
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)

The Center for Strategic Decision Research is a small research institute located near Stanford University in Menlo Park, California. For more than 30years, CSDR has presented an annual forum--presently called The International Workshop on Global Security--in major European cities. These workshops bring together political, military, industry, and academic leaders from North American, European, Asian, and African countries to discuss global security challenges on an informal and not-for-attribution basis. Participants have included the heads of state or government of Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Luxembourg, Romania, and Bulgaria, as well as foreign ministers, defense ministers, ambassadors, military leaders, business leaders, academics, and representatives from the European Union, NATO, the OSCE, and the United Nations. CSDR has recently sponsored annual conferences at Stanford University on the Horn of Africa and has long-term interests in finding ways to better transatlantic and global relations. CSDR also held workshops in Paris, France in partnership with the French Defense Ministry on the evolving roles of NATO, the EU, and ESDP.

CSDR is currently interested in the development and communication of Alliance strategy for the coming decade in order to address the challenges of global terrorism--including not only growing asymmetric threats but also the genuine danger of nuclear hyperterrorist attacks that could threaten our civilization. Among the many requirements for such a strategy are improved transatlantic relations (which depends on reconciling the radically different world views found in Europe and North America), defense industrial cooperation among allies (as a basis for joint operational capability), and the need for a successful policy in the greater middle east (which cannot be achieved without progress toward peace between Israel and Palestine). International organizations, as well as treaties and other agreements, must be strengthened to slow the proliferation of WMDs. Above all, the struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means alone: underlying causes must be understood and addressed. More recently, the global economic crisis has unexpectedly emerged as perhaps the greatest single threat to global well-being and security.

CSDR Leadership
Roger Weissinger-Baylon, BS, MS (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ph.D. (Stanford), Workshop Chairman and Founder, [email protected]
Anne D. Baylon, LL.B (Paris)., M.A. (Stanford), Co-Director, [email protected]
Ania Garlitsky, BS (Stanford), MD (Vermont), Senior Research Fellow, [email protected]
Caroline Baylon, BA (Stanford). MA (Oxford), Executive Advisor, [email protected]
Jean Lee, BA (Stanford), graphics and photography, [email protected]
Tim Bloechl, BS (US Military Academy) Senior Advisor, [email protected]

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