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Commentary

The challenges facing NATO and how to meet them

Ahead of the July NATO Summit in Ankara, Ahmet Üzümcü, former Permanent Representative of Turkey to NATO, reflects on the alliance’s transformation from 16 to 32 members and the challenges shaping its future. From burden-sharing and European defence to nuclear deterrence, Ukraine, China, and transatlantic tensions, he argues that NATO’s continued success will depend on unity, credible deterrence, and meaningful political consultation among allies.

15 June 2026 | Ahmet Üzümcü
Euro-Atlantic SecurityAsia-Pacific RegionDeterrenceForeign policyNATORussia-West RelationsTransatlantic relationsUkraineELN
Commentary

The NPT after New York: worrying trends and remaining hopeful signs

Despite failing once again to adopt a final document, the 2026 NPT Review Conference revealed both troubling fractures and surprising resilience within the Treaty regime. From geopolitical polarisation and competing visions of the NPT to constructive discussions on AI and risk reduction, Emmanuelle Maitre writes, the conference offered reasons for concern and cautious optimism.

11 June 2026 | Emmanuelle Maitre
Multilateral Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-ProliferationNPTNuclear Arms ControlNuclear DisarmamentNuclear SecurityNuclear WeaponsUnited Nations
Commentary

Want to prevent nuclear war caused by AI? Count the private sector out

Drawing on parallels with the Manhattan Project, the ELN’s Oliver Meier argues that AI companies cannot be relied upon to govern the risks their technology creates. Examining Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah’s response to Pope Leo’s encyclical, he contends that meaningful safeguards will require governments and international institutions to impose robust regulation.

8 June 2026 | Oliver Meier
Emerging Disruptive Technologies and Risk ReductionArtificial IntelligenceEmerging technologiesGovernanceNuclear WeaponsRisk ReductionELN
Podcast

The Women Leaders podcast: Risk and reality

Assessing risk is a vast and growing field, made ever more complex and expansive by the introduction of technology, especially AI. Tinatin Japaridze, YGLN member and Director of Geopolitics at Anadyr Horizon joins ELN Senior Associate Fellow Ilana Bet-El to analyse how the ever-changing nature of global affairs intersects with emerging technologies to transform our conceptions of risk.

5 June 2026 | Ilana Bet-El, Florence Ferrando and Tinatin Japaridze
EDTsNuclear and Emerging TechnologiesArtificial IntelligenceCyberEmerging technologiesGovernanceHybrid warfarePodcastsSenior Associate FellowYGLN
Commentary

When the cornerstone cracks: the NPT and the future of the global nuclear order

After 16 years without a consensus final document, write Carmen Wunderlich and Leonardo Bandarra, the challenge facing the NPT is less about disagreement on specific issues than about growing doubts over the role and value of the review process within an increasingly complex nuclear order, and amid geopolitical shifts and the renewed prominence of nuclear deterrence in global security policy.

3 June 2026 | Carmen Wunderlich and Leonardo Bandarra
Multilateral Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-ProliferationNPTNuclear Arms ControlNuclear DisarmamentNuclear SecurityNuclear WeaponsUnited NationsELN
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Leonardo Bandarra

Leonardo Bandarra is a senior researcher at the Institute for Development and Peace at the University of Duisburg–Essen, Germany, working on nuclear verification, trust, and perspectives from the Global South as part of VeSPoTec (Nuclear Verification in a Complex and Unpredictable World:...