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8 Août 2009
International seminar on political and security cooperation in Europe’s Four Sea Basins, which took place in Rome on April 3rd and 4th, was the second event of the EU4Seas project, supported by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission and organized by Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). The seminar aimed to assess the role and impact in the political and security fields of sub-regional actors and organisations in the four sea basins. Also, it evaluated whether the EU, as well as NATO and other international organisations reinforce security cooperation at the sub-regional level.
While the EU has always been keen on promoting regional and
sub-regionalmultilateralism, proposing itself as a sort of model of such kind of cooperation,
its strategies and policies have not always been consistent with that aim.
The seminar provided debates/discussions about defining security agendas in the four sea Basins (Mediterranean, Baltic, Black and Caspian Seas), cooperation between the sub-regional organisations on conflict resolution issues as well as their ability to promote democracy, good governance and human rights in above mentioned regions, and finally the impact of international organisations such as EU, NATO, OSCE on subregional security. The seminar was completed with the roundtable, which provided open presentations of international practitioners about the NATO/EU strategies (i.e. comparison among strategies to promote security in different sea basins ; comparison about the results of these strategies; the effectiveness of the cooperation between the EU or NATO and sub-regional security organisations in the different basins, etc.) to promote security in Europe’s four basins.
The seminar hosted international experts, officials and practitioners (see the joint report for the list of participants)