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What do the changes to the energy landscape following the Ukraine crisis mean for NATO? How does the organization need to change to better face energy challenges? We ask some top commentators and politicians what kind of changes they feel should be made. \n\n00.11 \u2013 Voice-over \u2013 Paul King \u2013 Editor, NATO Review\nIn a globalized world no man is an island. Some 50 per cent of the EU\u2019s gas imports from Russia still pass through Ukraine and these imports have already been interrupted twice before, in 2006 and 2009. Following the Ukraine crisis, there are fears that Europe\u2019s energy security may be vulnerable once again. \n\n00.32- Liam Fox \u2013 Former UK Secretary of Defence\nIn globalization, our interdependence means that we cannot be isolated from instability in any one part of the world. Ukraine is a very obvious example of that now, but we had that with 9/11, we had it with things like the SARS outbreak. We\u2019re a much more interdependent world. \n\n00.51 \u2013 Voice-over \u2013 Paul King \u2013 Editor, NATO Review\nBut energy movements are decided largely by private companies in commercial deals, at least in the West. So what role can an international organisation like NATO play?\n\n01.01 \u2013 Amb. Kurt Volker \u2013 Former US ambassador to NATO\nEnergy security is not something that NATO would sell or control. It is again, national decisions, economic decisions, infrastructure decisions, European Union level decisions\u2026 But it can be a forum for consultation, for places where countries such as the Baltic States can raise concerns with other allies, and that we can talk about the implications of the dependencies that exist and the need for addressing them and also how we can share pain.\n\n01.28 \u2013 Marc Jacobson \u2013 Adjunct Professor, The George Washington University, US\nI think there is also a real case to be made that NATO needs to recast the role it originally envisaged in 1949. By this I mean inclusion of other ministries during North Atlantic Council sessions, for example Ministers of Finance. And this is representative of the more holistic challenges the world faces today. \n\n01.49 \u2013 Voice-over \u2013 Paul King \u2013 Editor, NATO Review\nThis adaptation will require a new skill set. But this is not the first time NATO has had to adapt to changing security challenges.\n\n01.58 \u2013 Linas Linkevi\u010dius \u2013 Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania\nIf we have no experts, we should have some experts. It\u2019s no excuse. I remember when I spent my time in NATO, it was very interesting. We found out that nobody speaks Arabic within NATO. Now that\u2019s no longer the case, but now suddenly, why? Because never before it was needed, but now it is needed.\n\n02.17 \u2013 Voice-over \u2013 Paul King \u2013 Editor, NATO Review\nAnd finally, there can be little doubt that energy can have a major impact on rebalancing relations with Russia.\n\n02.24 - Marc Jacobson \u2013 Adjunct Professor, The George Washington University, US\nEnergy security and economic stability limit Russian freedom of action more so than any sort of direct military to military balance.\n\n\n\n\nNATO Review\n\nwww.nato.int/review\n\nThe opinions expressed in NATO Review do not necessarily reflect those of NATO or its member countries. \n\nThis video contains footage from ITN. While this video may be reproduced and used in its entirety, ITN footage cannot be used as part of a new production.