More than 140 participants gathered on 6-7 September in Berlin to discuss conventional arms control challenges at a major conference co-organized by the German Federal Foreign Office and the European Leadership Network.
ELN Research Fellow Thomas Frear argues that a resumption of Open Skies Treaty flights between Russia and Georgia is in the best interest of both, outlining a status-neutral method to overcome previously irreconcilable national positions.
As long as the relationship between Russia and the West continues to be confrontational, the urgent task will be to stabilize and manage the confrontation.
Łukasz Kulesa, ELN Research Director, argues that the Trump administration’s current stance on arms control and the absence of joint US-Russia leadership on the topic open political space for a European agenda on nuclear and conventional arms control in 2017.
ELN Research Director Lukasz Kulesa co-prepared the Learning Unit 11 (Arms Control in Europe: NATO/OSCE Issues) of the EU Non-proliferation and Disarmament eLearning Course.
Maxim Starchak writes that the Russian annexation of Crimea and military support to south eastern Ukraine has led, deliberately or accidentally, to a new Cold War in Europe. Starchak argues that there are lessons from the arms control of the first Cold War.