The Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative (EASI) is a high-level international commission whose unique goal is to lay the intellectual foundation for an inclusive Euro-Atlantic security system for the twenty-first century.
EASI’s final report will be available on Friday.
The Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative is pleased to present the research papers of its Working Group on Turkey. Comprised of both EASI Commissioners and outside experts, the Working Group’s efforts have highlighted the important and often overlooked Turkish dimension of an effort to build a Euro-Atlantic security community. The Group strove to further define Turkey’s role in such an effort and to identify the challenges and opportunities that it raises. The reports cover several major issues: Key relationships with the EU, Russia, and the Middle East, respectively, and the issues of security, internal politics, and energy. The papers are authored by leading specialists from Europe, Russia, the United States and Turkey.
Jan Techau writes that Europe is in inevitable decline and will only survive if it becomes more strategic in its internal and external affairs.
Matthew Rojansky explains that Euro-Atlantic community shares basic interests and depends on each other for security, economic prosperity, and human development. To address modern security challenges, these states must revitalize the institutional foundations of their shared security community.
Achieving a genuinely collaborative approach to missile defense would address a common threat to the Euro-Atlantic region and help remove the misgivings that are blocking progress toward a common security space, write Wolfgang Ischinger, Igor Ivanov, and Sam Nunn.
While obstacles remain, the conditions are looking good for launching the negotiation process between Russia, the United States, and Europe on the creation of a joint missile defense system for the entire Euro-Atlantic region, says EASI Co-Chair Igor Ivanov. Read in Russian
Missile-defense cooperation would be a potential game changer in U.S.-Russian and NATO-Russian relations and a crucial step toward a sounder European security order, write Wolfgang Ischinger, Igor Ivanov, and Sam Nunn.
In a collaboration between the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London) and Institute for Contemporary Development (Moscow), Russian and European scholars examine possible ways for transforming NATO-Russia relations in a way which could help to overcome the legacy of mutual mistrust and enhance the scope and effectiveness of practical cooperation between them.
At their Summit in Strasbourg/Kehl in April 2009, Alliance leaders directed Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to convene a broadly-based group of qualified experts to prepare the ground for a new NATO Strategic Concept. In their report, the Group of Experts (led by Madeleine Albright) offers analysis and recommendations intended to assist the Secretary General in drafting the new Strategic Concept, which will be submitted to NATO heads of government at the November 2010 summit in Lisbon.
The U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing for the full Committee on March 17, 2010 on the issue of transatlantic security in the twenty-first century. EASI Co-Chair Wolfgang Ischinger, Carnegie Moscow Center Director Dmitri Trenin, and Thomas Graham of Kissinger Associates, Inc., gave testimony on the need for innovative thinking on Euro-Atlantic security.
In an Open Letter to the German newspaper Der Spiegel, Commissioner Volker Rühe, along with Klaus Naumann, Frank Elbe and Ulrich Weisser argue that it is time for NATO to extend an offer of membership to Russia.
In papers prepared for the 2010 Brussels Forum, EASI Director Robert Legvold writes about how to move towards a common security space. David Kramer and Daniel Fata, both of the German Marshall Fund, consider President Dmitri Medvedev's draft proposal for a new European security treaty.
The Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative is made possible by funding from the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Hurford Foundation, the Robert & Ardis James Foundation, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and The Starr Foundation, and support from The Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO) and the United World International Foundation.
Absent a good education environment, there is little room for the Arab world’s youth to turn into responsible citizens who can consolidate and stimulate social transformation to bring about more prosperous and free societies.
China’s traditional diplomacy is at a crossroads as it adjusts to the new global order. The financial crises, climate change, and regional instability have propelled China into a new global role and in turn, a new era of diplomacy.
The obvious and often painful mismatch between aspiration and reality in European foreign policy has plagued discourse on European integration during the last decade.
While the project of “grand Eurasian alliance” between Russia and China currently appears unworkable, the Sino-Russian strategic partnership is a major boon for both countries and acts as one of the pillars of peace and stability in Asia.
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