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Jamie Shea, Head of NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges Unit

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By the end of 2014, NATO could be without a military operation to run. So how do you keep this military alliance, formed at the height of the Cold War, relevant? That’s the job of its head of "Emerging Security Challenges" Unit, Jamie Shea. He tells Annette Young how in a period of slashed budgets, NATO is facing a strategic dilemma and rethinking how it should operate in the 21st century.

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