Patryk Pawlak

Patryk Pawlak is a Research Fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies where he deals with EU-US relations. He currently researches transatlantic cooperation in the Asia Pacific and interlinkages between EU’s Common Security and Defense Policy and Justice and Home Affairs policies.

NATO’s role in the southern Mediterranean: learning lessons from the EU

Keeping a safe distance might actually help the NATO Alliance to rebuild its credibility in the region. As the EU recently learnt, breaking down 'democratization' into concrete bits and treating Islamist parties as legitimate interlocutors is the way forward.

By Patryk Pawlak

/ 7 Jun 2012