On 20 November one week before Riga Conference “Transforming NATO in a new Global Era” the US-Germany Marshall Foundation together with the co-organizers of the conference – the Strategic Analysis Commission and Transatlantic Organization of Latvia (LATO) have published five research volumes under the title THE RIGA PAPERS. The research volumes highlight the most important issues in the NATO agenda that will be addressed in Riga Conference.

THE RIGA PAPERS is created by globally recognized politics experts and thus outline the most important debates in the area if security and defence policy. One of the five volumes is designed by the Head of the Commission of Strategic Analysis, Professor Zaneta Ozolina. In the study Transforming NATO: the View from Latvia the author underlines the challenges of the NATO transformation process for the small member states as well as the need to continue further enlargement of NATO.