{"id":12783,"date":"2019-02-12T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/visit-by-a-delegation-from-the-jackson-school-of-international-studies-university-of-washington\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:25:10","slug":"visit-by-a-delegation-from-the-jackson-school-of-international-studies-university-of-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/visit-by-a-delegation-from-the-jackson-school-of-international-studies-university-of-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit by a delegation from the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">On 6 February 2019, the NATO Defense College hosted 20 students from the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. The students were accompanied by Dr Frederick Lorenz (head of delegation), Ambassador (ret) John Koenig and Mrs Lone Kjelgaard (Senior Assistant Legal Adviser, NATO HQ).<\/p>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">The Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS) is part of the University of Washington, Seattle. This is the third year of the JSIS ten-week winter quarter programme in Rome, once again including a visit to the NATO Defense College (NDC) and support from its Research Division (RD).<\/p>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">Colonel Ian Hope, PhD, welcomed the students and briefed them on the history of the NDC, its scope as a major centre of education, study and research, and its core mission. He also spoke about the RD\u2019s many activities and its major projects. <\/p>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">While underlying the importance of 2019 as NATO\u2019s 70th anniversary, Col Hope illustrated NATO\u2019s governing mechanism as a tool that achieves decisions only through consensus. He described current priorities, with particular reference to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\"> <\/span>The Arctic region;<\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\"> <\/span>The Baltic States;<\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\"> <\/span>The situation in Ukraine;<\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\"> <\/span>Illegal migration;<\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\"> <\/span>The Balkans;<\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\"> <\/span>The MENA region;<\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\"> <\/span>The NATO Mission in Iraq and  Afghanistan;<\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\"> <\/span>Hybrid threats;<\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"LTR\"> <\/span>NATO cyber defence policy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">NATO cyber defence policy was then analysed in  depth by Mrs Lone Kjelgaard (NATO HQ), in her presentation on <em>NATO Efforts in Cyberspace<\/em>. While  explaining developments since the 2002 Prague Summit, Mrs Kjelgaard placed  particular emphasis on the <em>Cyber Defence  Pledge<\/em>, as a tool promoting high-level focus and fostering cooperation  across government institutions in order to share national experiences and raise  overall levels of cyber defence. Particular attention was also given to the  NATO-EU Joint Declaration, with its provision for information exchange,  training, research and exercises, as well as the NATO Industry Cyber  Partnership and the annual Cyber Coalition exercises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">Dr Vira Ratsiborynska, Research Analyst, spoke about the challenges of EU-NATO relations for Eastern Partnership countries. She examined such questions as cooperation priorities for the Eastern Partnership countries, NATO and the EU; security challenges; and frozen conflicts currently affecting Eastern Partnership countries. Importance was given to creation of synergies between all actors, development of security risk assessment in the Eastern Partnership countries, improvement of information exchange, and promotion of intelligence sharing between the EU, NATO and Eastern Partnership countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper\">The visit proved very beneficial for the students from the Jackson School of International Studies, as it increased their knowledge of the NDC and NATO, a valuable educational experience not available on the home campus in Seattle.\n<\/p>\n<p><em>NDC Public Affairs Office<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 6 February 2019, the NATO Defense College hosted 20 students from the Jackson School of International Studies,<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"post_badge":[],"class_list":["post-12783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"NDC","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/author\/admin_3rwqf6tj\/"},"modified_by":null,"author_meta":{"display_name":"NDC","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/author\/admin_3rwqf6tj\/"},"featured_img":null,"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","trp-custom-language-flag":"","morenews-featured":"","morenews-large":"","morenews-medium":""},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":0,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>"]}},"relative_dates":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 7 ans il y a","modified":"Mis \u00e0 jour 6 mois il y a"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 le f\u00e9vrier 12, 2019","modified":"Mise \u00e0 jour le janvier 15, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Publi\u00e9 le f\u00e9vrier 12, 2019 16:19","modified":"Mise \u00e0 jour le janvier 15, 2026 09:25"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12783"},{"taxonomy":"post_badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_badge?post=12783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}