ELN Director Sir Adam Thomson was interviewed by Sky News about NATO 2021 Summit. He spoke about the challenges and opportunities that Russia and China present. The video can be found here.
ELN Policy Fellow Sahil Shah and Andrey Baklitskiy co-authored a bilingual op-ed on how Biden and Putin can work together to limit nuclear arms. It was published in Responsible Statecraft and Kommersant. While some have noted that the U.S.–Russia relationship is like a falling knife that has...
Rather than forever circling the wagons, NATO needs to develop its own ideas so that it can respond credibly to its adversaries’ proposals and restore its leadership role. As the alliance’s leaders gather this week, the ELN’s director Adam Thomson argues that they must recognize that reviving the arms-control agenda is the key to members’ collective defence.
Dr Klaus Wittmann, ret. Bundeswehr Brigadier General argues that while NATO would be right to retain the three core tasks in the 2010 Strategic Concept: Collective Defence, Crisis Management, Cooperative Security, it should agree on two new tasks: Consultation and Resilience, and that clear instruction must come from today’s Brussels summit.
ELN Director Sir Adam Thomson and Senior Consulting Fellow Sir Graham Stacey co-authored an op-ed in The Hill. They outlined pragmatic steps & 5 priority areas for enhanced NATO-Russia mil-to-mil dialogue. The authors also underscore need for commencement of discussions about the future risks...
Ahead of the NATO and Biden-Putin Summits, the ELN and LIIA convened forty senior military and civilian experts from Russia and NATO countries to progress the discussion on NATO/Russia military-to-military dialogue.