How can we accurately predict future events?How do we persuade political leaders to look beyond the next couple of years? What lies ahead for NATO, in the coming years and in the distant future? In this episode, researcher and futurist Dr Florence Gaub walks us through her work as a strategic foresight advisor. As Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College in Rome, she leads a team that looks for “weak signals” of future events, helping ensure that NATO poli...
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How can we accurately predict future events?How do we persuade political leaders to look beyond the next couple of years? What lies ahead for NATO, in the coming years and in the distant future? In this episode, researcher and futurist Dr Florence Gaub walks us through her work as a strategic foresight advisor. As Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College in Rome, she leads a team that looks for “weak signals” of future events, helping ensure that NATO poli...
NATO’s open door (2004) with former President of Latvia Dr Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
NATO Through Time
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NATO’s open door (2004) with former President of Latvia Dr Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
Why did the Baltic States and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe choose to join NATO after the end of the Cold War?Why was the 2004 enlargement of NATO known as the “Big Bang” enlargement?How do NATO’s smaller member countries contribute to the Alliance? In this episode, former President of Latvia Dr Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga shares her extraordinary life story – from fleeing Latvia as a child at the end of the Second World War, to building a life in Canada for 50 years, to becomin...
NATO Through Time
How can we accurately predict future events?How do we persuade political leaders to look beyond the next couple of years? What lies ahead for NATO, in the coming years and in the distant future? In this episode, researcher and futurist Dr Florence Gaub walks us through her work as a strategic foresight advisor. As Director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College in Rome, she leads a team that looks for “weak signals” of future events, helping ensure that NATO poli...
