The 2023 Warsaw Security Forum Annual Report, entitled “Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as a New Center of Gravity: Recommendation on Strengthening Regional, European and Transatlantic Security” was presented during the 10th Anniversary edition of Warsaw Security Forum.
For over half a year, nearly 30 internationally recognized experts and policymakers in foreign policy, defence, energy and cybersecurity, supported by the Casimir Pulaski Foundation’s team, have been working on developing the report. The report consists of four thematic areas, including defence, democratic resilience, energy and climate, and cybersecurity. For each of these areas, the report proposes two advocacy causes, which serve as “calls for action” for decision-makers, reflecting the security needs of the CEE region and creating proposals for implementable policies on the Transatlantic, European and national levels.
“Times of crisis pose both immense challenges as well as unique opportunities. It is the hope of the authors and contributors of this report, that the transatlantic community makes the most of these times of trial, by first and foremost helping Ukraine to win the war with Russia and second by taking this opportunity to strengthen our own collective defence, as well as our democratic resilience. We trust this report will contribute to finding the right solutions for Central and Eastern Europe and the Transatlantic Alliance as a whole.” – writes Prof. Katarzyna Pisarska, Chair of the Warsaw Security Forum – in the introduction to the report.
In 2023 the WSF High-Level Expert Groups worked together in the realization of a research project entitled: “Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as a New Center of Gravity: (Wartime) Reordering of Transatlantic Security”
A selected group of 40 high-level international security experts and decision-makers form three working groups in each of the three thematic areas:
- (Foreign Policy) Ensuring Better Regional Stability by Protecting a Rules-Based Order
- (Defense) Europe at War. Strengthening European Defense Capabilities – the role of CEE
- (State Resilience) Making CEE Societies Fit For an Age of Digital and Energy Security Disruptions
The Authors
Foreign Policy
Member of the Polish Sejm, Government Plenipotentiary for Polish-Ukrainian Development Cooperation, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Poland
Ambassador of Lithuania to Sweden, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012-2020) Minister of National Defence (1993-1996, 2000-2004), Lithuania
Global Fellow Woodrow Wilson Center, former EU High Representative, Vice President of the European Commission (2009-2014), UK
Defense
Senior Fellow at Friends of Europe, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO (2010-2018), United Kingdom
Polish Military Representative at the Military Committees of NATO and the European Union (2014-2018), Poland
Resilience: Energy & Climate
National Security Advisor to the President of the United States (2017-2018), USA
Energy and EU Green deal Advisor to Deputy Prime-Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine
Resilience: Cybersecurity
Founding Chairman, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council; Former US Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan; Former US Ambassador to the European Union
Deputy Chairman and Chief Digital Transformation Officer at the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine
General Manager, Associate General Counsel, Cybersecurity Policy and Protection, Microsoft
Head, Foreign Intelligence Service (AW) (2015-2016), Director of Cybersecurity, Economy and Energy Programs, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland
