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Podcast

The Women Leaders podcast: Security, cooperation, and conflict with Rose Gottemoeller

As summer unfolds across much of Europe and the US, war continues to devastate Ukraine and fuel instability across the Middle East. Former NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller joins ELN Senior Associate Fellow Ilana Bet-El to unpack the narratives behind Russia’s war against Ukraine, the legacy of the Cold War, and the strategic misunderstandings that shaped today’s security landscape.

24 July 2026 | Ilana Bet-El and Florence Ferrando
Russia-WestEuropean Security and RussiaNATOPodcastsRussiaRussia-West RelationsUkraine
Commentary

The unforeseen consequences of the NATO Ankara summit

Despite the success of the Ankara summit, the US is gradually decoupling itself from Europe in ways that will have profound consequences for European security and strategic stability. As ELN Senior Associate Fellow Nicholas Williams writes, NATO will not collapse in a single dramatic moment; it is slowly changing into something less able to perform its central task.

16 July 2026 | Nicholas Williams
Euro-Atlantic SecurityDefenceDeterrenceEuropeForeign policyNATONuclear SecurityRussiaUkraineUnited States
Commentary

Thirty years later, the ICJ’s advisory opinion on nuclear weapons still matters

Thirty years ago today, the International Court of Justice drew a direct line between nuclear threats and the potential use of nuclear weapons. Now, as nuclear rhetoric returns to the centre of international politics, ELN Policy Fellow Jana Baldus argues the Court’s landmark advisory opinion remains an essential legal guide, and a call to action.

8 July 2026 | Jana Baldus
Nuclear Deterrence and Risk ReductionDeterrenceNuclear Arms ControlNuclear DisarmamentNuclear SecurityNuclear Weapons
Commentary

‘NATO 3.0’ and Europe’s security future

European security architecture is at a crossroads as NATO and the EU search for new roles amid growing uncertainty over the future of transatlantic security. With debate over a more European NATO and a European nuclear umbrella gathering pace, Tarja Cronberg argues that the Ankara summit will test whether allies can move beyond technical debates about defence spending and burden-sharing to articulate a collective vision for Europe’s future security order.

7 July 2026 | Tarja Cronberg
Euro-Atlantic SecurityDefenceDeterrenceEuropeForeign policyNATONuclear WeaponsRussia-West RelationsSecurityTransatlantic relations
Commentary

Can Europe enhance its security solely through increased arms procurement?

Ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara, calls for higher defence spending are dominating the agenda. But military investment alone cannot guarantee Europe’s security. Sabine Mengelberg argues that NATO’s long-term strength depends equally on political cohesion and shared values, foundations that sustain deterrence and the alliance’s ability to confront security challenges.

6 July 2026 | Sabine Mengelberg
Euro-Atlantic SecurityDefenceEUEuropeForeign policyNATOSecurityTransatlantic relationsUnited States
Commentary

Network Reflections: the Ankara summit and Europe’s NATO moment

ELN network members assess whether the Ankara summit marks a turning point for Europe’s role within NATO or a transition shaped by the US. They discuss defence spending, strategic autonomy, and the choices European governments must make to bolster the alliance in an uncertain security environment.

6 July 2026 | Stefanie Babst, Nicholas Dungan, Klaus Korhonen, Nona Mikhelidze, George Robertson and Ezgi Yazicioglu
Network ReflectionsEuro-Atlantic SecurityDefenceEuropeForeign policyNATOSecurityTransatlantic relations
Podcast

The Women Leaders podcast: the US at 250, the exceptional experiment with Laurel Rapp

On the eve of the United States of America’s 250th anniversary, ELN Senior Associate Fellow Ilana Bet-El is joined in conversation with Laurel Rapp, Director of the US and North America Programme at Chatham House, to discuss the US experiment and how recent developments across Greenland, Venezuela and Iran – as well as domestically – have altered global perceptions of the US.

3 July 2026 | Ilana Bet-El and Florence Ferrando
PodcastsTransatlantic relationsUnited States
Commentary

‘Europeanising’ NATO: what it means in practice

With the United States reducing its strategic role in Europe, NATO is entering a new era of European leadership. ELN Executive Director Robert Ondrejcsák argues that Europe’s priority should be strengthening alliance capabilities rather than creating parallel structures, while examining how rising defence spending, shifting military power within the continent, and new security partnerships will shape NATO’s long-term “Europeanisation”.

1 July 2026 | Robert Ondrejcsák
Euro-Atlantic SecurityDefenceDeterrenceEUEuropeForeign policyNATOSecurityTransatlantic relationsUkraine
Commentary

The death of the ‘global cop’: why NATO’s Ankara summit is burying out-of-area operations

What are the consequences stemming from the seeming end of NATO’s global role? ELN Senior Associate Fellow Nicholas Williams looks back at two decades of NATO’s “out-of-area operations”, arguing that foreign crisis management missions have become strategic liabilities rather than assets, exposing European troops to global conflicts while doing little to enhance European security.

30 June 2026 | Nicholas Williams
Euro-Atlantic SecurityAfghanistanDefenceEuropeForeign policyMiddle EastNATOSecurityTransatlantic relations