To accomplish our mission and goals, we engage thought-leaders, foreign and security policy experts, as well as leading youth and women organizations, with a particular interest in international relations, to discuss, inform, equip and connect stakeholders through policy and strategy research, analysis and discourse. We organize roundtable discussions, trainings and conferences on current foreign and security policy challenges.
Activities
Conferences
First Conference
Second Conference
S&L’s president and founder was key in launching the international conference on foreign and security policy challenges to euro-atlantic cooperation in 2022. In the cooperation of the International Republican Institute, the Hungarian Atlantic Council, and the Equilibrium Institute, the event gathered together foreign and security policy experts, heads of think tanks, departments of international relations of various universities for a 1,5 day conference on Chatham House rules. The Opening Speech was held by Janos Martonyi, Hungary’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the concluding remarks were offered by Zsolt Nemeth, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Hungary.
Read the agenda here.
The second conference on security and foreign policy challenges involved over 150 participants and offered a very important platform for expert discussion. Co-organized by the Hungarian Atlantic Council and the IRI, the conference was on-invitation only, based on Chatham House rules. The 1,5 day event covered topics such as the challenges to transatlantic security, Russia’s war against Ukraine, China’s strategic investments in Europe, the evolution of Russian strategic thinking, disinformation and the war of narratives.
In line with the first conference, the Opening Speech was held by Janos Martonyi, Hungary’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the concluding remarks were given by Zsolt Nemeth, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Hungary, the former Minister of Foreign affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, Kurt Volker, former US Ambassador to NATO and Jay Truesdale. The event’s Luncheon Keynote was offered by Benedetta Berti, Office of NATO Secretary General.
Read the program here.
2022
2023
Roundtables
Budapest Roundtable
Warsaw Roundtable
On the invitation of S&L President, Matt Boyse, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US State Department took part in the roundtable discussion organized by the Hungarian Atlantic Council.
In cooperation with SGH - the Warsaw University of Economics, S&L launched a roundtable discussion.
Fall 2023
February 2024