Sabine Mengelberg has an academic background in political science, with a specialisation in international relations. Currently, Mengelberg serves as an Assistant Professor of International Security Studies at the Netherlands Defence Academy. Mengelberg’s fascination for cooperation between...
Institutionalised and forward-looking security and defence cooperation during the war and interim period are critical security guarantees for Ukraine. Kateryna Anisova writes that the G7-EU-coalition-of-willing nexus can assure a comprehensive and mutually reinforcing approach for bolstering Ukraine’s capabilities and integrating it into the Euro-Atlantic security system before the war ends.
Current security guarantees for Ukraine range from unavailable to ineffective, writes Sascha Ostanina. She proposes a middle-ground solution to provide collective security for Ukraine through a binding self-defence agreement between the EU and Ukraine. Such an agreement would provide Ukraine with access to weapons and ammunition in the event of Russian aggression.
To avoid making post-war Ukraine’s public sentiments grow anti-Western or isolationist, Denys Karlovskyi writes that NATO must build a mutually beneficial framework of security cooperation with Ukraine’s government and maintain the current level of Ukrainian public support for NATO and the EU. One way of achieving this is for NATO member states to engage with the Ukrainian public in a way that is on par with the government.
Sascha E. Ostanina is a Policy Fellow at the Jacques Delors Centre with a research focus on Russia and the Eastern Partnership countries. Prior to this, Sascha worked as an external analyst with the international consulting company S&P Global and as a security consultant with the International...
Denys Karlovskyi is a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London. His interests comprise European security, the use of emerging technology in modern warfare, and the post-war stabilisation of Ukraine. Denys worked as a news journalist in Ukrainska Pravda, the most...