From Lisbon to Madrid

Welcome to the inaugural episode of “NATO’s Road to Madrid”. In this episode, host Rachel Ellehuus of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at CSIS is joined by Ambassador Baiba Braže, Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy at NATO, and Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, a Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Together, the three take listeners on a trip from Lisbon to Madrid—from the adoption of NATO’s current Strategic Concept back in 2010 to the ongoing development of the new Strategic Concept, which will be adopted in summer 2022 at NATO’s Summit in Madrid. Along the way, they discuss how the security environment has changed around NATO in the past eleven years and explain how the Alliance is trying to keep pace.