As the last event in a three-year series of thematically aligned Senior Executive Seminars on Transatlantic Security Cooperation – Facing the Challenges Together, SES will focus on the future of our partnerships in an era of persistent strategic competition combined with multiple other interconnected and concurrent global and transnational challenges, including widespread instability, the enduring threat of terrorism, a dramatically changing technological landscape, and man-made as well as natural risks. To succeed in this ever-more demanding and volatile environment, the Euro-Atlantic community and its partners will need to find new ways of political dialogue and practical cooperation based on mutual interest and benefit across a broad spectrum of policy areas.

Senior Executive Seminars (SES) will provide a timely opportunity for U.S., German and other Allied and partner decision makers to explore concrete and actionable steps towards such new partnerships in a holistic fashion, both regionally and functionally. To this end, the Seminar will address the specific situations and requirements in selected regions, including the Black Sea, the Western Balkans, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific. This will encompass political, diplomatic, informational, economic and military elements so that the key security issues of our time and their regional and international impacts can be effectively approached.