This report was adopted by the Committee on Democracy and Security at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   The 2011-2012 uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa raised high expectations for the democratisation of the region’s societies and for a greater respect…

This resolution was presented by the Committee on Democracy and Security and adopted by the Plenary Assembly in Lisbon, Portugal on Monday 11 October 2021.   

This report was adopted by the Political Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   This report discusses ways to rejuvenate the transatlantic bond and to seek fairer burden sharing in the context of the NATO 2030 agenda and the revision of NATO’s Strategic…

This resolution was presented by the Economics and Security Committee and adopted by the Plenary Assembly on Monday 11 October 2021.  

This report was adopted by the Defence and Security Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   Receding ice is expanding access to surface transit routes and subsurface resources in the Arctic, which are predicted to have a seismic impact on global trade and…

This resolution was presented by the Defence and Security Committee and adopted by the Plenary Assembly in Lisbon, Portugal on Monday 11 October 2021.  

This resolution was presented by the Political Committee and adopted by the Plenary Assembly in Lisbon, Portugal on Monday 11 October 2021. 

This resolution was presented by the Science and Technology Committee and adopted by the Plenary Assembly on Monday 11 October 2021.  

This report was adopted by the Committee on Democracy and Security at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   The information crisis surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and the events at the US Capitol building on 6 January 2021 have laid bare the destabilizing effects of…

This resolution was presented by the Defence and Security Committee and adopted by the Plenary Assembly on Monday 11 October 2021.  

This report was adopted by the Science and Technology Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed global vulnerabilities to biological threats and refocused attention on the possibility of deliberate biological attacks…

This resolution was presented by the Political Committee and adopted by the Plenary Assembly on Monday 11 October 2021.  

This report was adopted by the Political Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   The Mediterranean Sea has three strategic entry points, providing access to the Atlantic Ocean, the Red Sea which leads to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and the Black Sea…

Over the last two decades, Iraq has undergone civil war, occupation, a rise in sectarianism and a deep crisis of confidence in the state and its institutions. Some observers claim that Iraq itself is an artificial construct, an amalgam of ethnically and religiously varied populations too diverse to…

This report was adopted by the Economics and Security Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   The COVID-19 pandemic and the global recession it has triggered have placed serious pressures on Allied defence budgets. As governments enact fiscal stimulus…

This report was adopted by the Economics and Security Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   The longer-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the global economy are coming into focus. The pandemic is now recognised as having constituted the…

This report was adopted by the Defence and Security Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon. Beijing is investing in modern armed forces capable of defending China’s increasingly global interests. The modernisation of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is…

This report was adopted by the Committee on Democracy and Security on 9 October 2021, at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon, Portugal.   For Allied societies, the COVID-19 pandemic has painfully demonstrated the importance of strengthening their preparedness and…

Over the last two decades, Iraq has undergone civil war, occupation, a rise in sectarianism and a deep crisis of confidence in the state and its institutions. Some observers claim that Iraq itself is an artificial construct, an amalgam of ethnically and religiously varied populations too diverse to…

This report was adopted by the Science and Technology Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   NATO has continuously fostered its cooperation with countries that lie outside the geographical  scope of the Alliance. Through a series of programmes and…