On April 12, 2012, the GMF Paris office partnered with the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS) to organize a full-day seminar on “What to Expect from the NATO Chicago Summit?”, as part of the joint GMF-FRS “NATO and Transatlantic Security Debates Series”.  Around 40 European, American and NATO experts, academics, officials and journalists contributed to the discussion structured in three different panels: NATO’s out-of-area operations, NATO’s strategic posture and the deliverables of the next Chicago Summit in May.  Each session confronted American, European and NATO perspectives. The discussion was lively and straightforward and addressed the key questions a few weeks before the Chicago summit: strategic implications of Afghanistan and Libya, budgetary pressures, the European Union’s capabilities, the “pivot” of the U.S. to Asia, American and European expectations for Chicago, transatlantic burden-sharing. The seminar brought together the GMF offices of Washington, Brussels, Paris and Berlin.  Full Program