Ground-launched cruise missiles are not the main military issue, as their effect on strategic stability remains limited. Greater problems will arise as soon as Russia and the US start the testing, production and deployment of intermediate-range ballistic missiles.
Reflecting on NATO’s celebration of its 70th anniversary, Dr Dan Plesch proposes the opportunity for a third great charter of Paris to address the elimination and governing of ‘Weapons of All Destruction’.
ELN Policy Fellow Dr Katarzyna Kubiak published an article on European perspectives on the INF Treaty for Osteuropa, an interdisciplinary academic monthly on international affairs and one of the leading international journals in the field of research on Eastern Europe (in German).
Dr Ulrich Kuhn responds to calls that the EU could diffuse the current INF Treaty crisis by initiating independent talks with Moscow.
On 18th March 2019, ELN Policy Fellow Dr Katarzyna Kubiak took part in a closed-door meeting of the Security and Defense Policy Working Group of the German Social Democratic Party in Berlin. Katarzyna briefed German MPs on the INF Treaty.
ELN Policy Fellow Dr Katarzyna Kubiak submitted written evidence to the House of Commons Defence Committee on the Consequences for UK Defence of INF withdrawal.