André Barrinha, Daniel Pinéu, José Manuel Pureza, Licínia Simão, Marco Rosa, Maria Raquel Freire and Oliver Richmond

October, 2010

By the end of November 2010, NATO will have a new Strategic Concept, one in which the major guidelines of action for the Alliance will be set, supposedly in tune both with the current international  security  climate  and  its  own  responsibilities  within  it.  Based  on  the  NATO  2020: Assured Security; Dynamic Engagement report drafted by the Group of Experts led by the former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, this policy brief attempts to critically analyze NATO’s current and future role in international security, pointing out several aspects and issues for which the Alliance should have a different approach. This policy brief is the result of a brainstorming session that took place in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, on September 14h, 2010.