NATO ENSEC COE Subject Matter Expert participated in the high-level international Maritime Security Symposium

Subject Matter Expert of the NATO ENSEC COE, Dr. Tadas Jakštas, participated in the International Symposium on Maritime Security “Facing Vulnerabilities and Resilience in the Maritime Domain: North and Baltic Sea” organised by the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg (Germany) and European Centre for Countering Hybrid Threats. The main objective of the symposium is to increase the overall awareness for maritime issues, identify maritime dependencies, name specific vulnerabilities and formulate strategies to increase (overall) resilience.

Following a keynote addresses by Vice-Admiral Andreas Krause, Inspector of DEU Navy, and Mr Dan Claudiu Chirondojan, Director of Joint Research, Dr Tadas Jakštas together with other distinguished panellists such as Prof Gary Schaal, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Mr Graham Evans, Chairman of International Cable Protection Committee, Prof. Dr. Orestis Schinas, Hamburg School of BA, Ms Annaleena Mäkila, Mr Stefan Rolle, Head of Energy Policy Department at German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, and Dr. Sebastian Bruns, Head of Centre for Maritime Strategy & Security at the Institute for Security Policy (Kiel University), participated in a discussion on the interdisciplinary nature and cross-sectional focus of maritime vulnerabilities.

The Panel engaged in a wider exchange on the economic, political, legal, academic aspects of maritime vulnerabilities. In his intervention, Dr Tadas Jakštas focused on the challenges of international law to address the protection of critical energy and communications infrastructure in maritime domain, especially in the context of growing provocative incidents in the Baltic Sea region.