OPST to Host “NATO Today” Discussion

The University of New Mexico Office for Policy, Security, and Technology presents “NATO Today,” with Lieutenant Commander Tania L. Price, Royal Navy, NATO Briefing Team Officer, Monday, Jan. 29 from 12 to 1 p.m.,
Mitchell Hall, rm. 220.

Lt. Cdr. Price will discuss NATO’s origins and its evolution since the demise of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. She will highlight a variety of current themes and issues including NATO strategy for managing peace and dealing with crises, the introduction of the NATO Response Force, and current NATO operations in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Darfur and the Mediterranean. Lt. Cdr. Price will also address the costs and benefits of NATO enlargement and the challenges it faces.

Lt. Cdr. Price entered the Royal Navy in 1976, gaining her Naval Commission at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and is a graduate/post-graduate of Bath and Oxford Universities. Before assuming her current post at Norfolk, VA, as a NATO Briefing Team Officer, Lt Cdr Price served on the staff of the Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC), Shrivenham, UK.

For more information contact Andrew L. Ross, professor, Political Science and director, Office for Policy, Security, and Technology at aross@unm.edu or 277-7391, or Stephanie Grant, OPST Program Administrator, at slgrant@unm.edu or 277-1391.

Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu