ELN Director Sir Adam Thomson is interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Today on next week’s NATO Summit in London and the future of NATO.
“If Europeans wants a long term healthy relationship with the United States, Europe is going to have to become militarily less dependent on the Americans, take more responsibility and pursue a long term road map for building European military capability.”
A new report, “NATO’s Nuclear Future: Deter, Reassure, Engage?”, prepared by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and co-authored by ELN Senior Associate Fellow Simon Lunn, argues that NATO must adopt a balanced approach that includes the proper mix of deterrence, reassurance, and engagement with Russia.
The current Russia-NATO deterrence relationship is unstable, and dangerously so. The authors argue that the interplay between the deterrence postures operated by both Russia and NATO has not been sufficiently appreciated during their development – deterrence cannot be effective if your target does not understand your actions.
Ahead of the NATO Summit, five members of the ELN’s senior network share their views and analysis