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Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative – EASI

To move toward the goal of an inclusive Euro-Atlantic Security Community, a unique process was created in 2009 called the Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative (EASI) by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

For the first time, former policymakers, diplomats, generals, and business leaders from Russia, the United States, Canada, Central Europe, and European Union nations came together to chart a roadmap of practical action that would allow the region to leave its past behind and to start to build a more secure future based on mutual trust and cooperation.



Final Report

Toward a Euro-Atlantic Security Community



    Working Group Papers
  • Missile Defense: Toward a New Paradigm

    No issue is more urgent or central to achieving progress toward the goal of creating an inclusive Euro-Atlantic Security Community than making European missile defense a joint project of the United States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and Russia.

  • Historical Reconciliation and Protracted Conflicts

    One of the fundamental impediments to molding the Euro-Atlantic nations into a more unified and workable security community, as became apparent early in the deliberations of the Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative, is the lingering distrust that poisons too many of the region’s key relationships.

  • Energy as a Building Block in Creating a Euro-Atlantic Security Community

    Of the key issue areas where progress would help open the way to the creation of a more cohesive and effective security collaboration among the states of the Euro-Atlantic region, enhanced energy security is particularly important.

  • Addressing Nonstrategic Nuclear Forces

    No issue in the area of European military security is more important or more vexed than that of nonstrategic (or tactical) nuclear weapons.

  • Addressing the Turkish Dimension in Creating a Euro-Atlantic Security Community

    Building a Euro-Atlantic Security Community has many dimensions, including the evolving role and significance of key actors. On that front, none is more important than Turkey and the dramatic changes in its role in the Euro-Atlantic region.

    Commentary and Analysis
  • Euro-Atlantic Goals

    Wolfgang Ischinger, Igor Ivanov, Sam Nunn International Herald Tribune, January 31, 2012

    The Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative set out to identify the practical steps needed to secure the region’s future and to create new pathways to a more inclusive and effective Euro-Atlantic community, focusing on the military, human, and economic dimensions of security.

The Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative has been made possible by funding from the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Hurford Foundation, the Robert & Ardis James Foundation, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and the Starr Foundation, and by support from the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the United World International Foundation.
Featured Event
Saturday, February 4, 2012 Munich

Munich Security Conference

Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative co-chairs Wolfgang Ischinger, Igor Ivanov, and Sam Nunn will present the commission’s final report at the 2012 Munich Security Conference.

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Commission Members
  • Wolfgang Ischinger
    Co-Chair, Germany
  • Igor Ivanov
    Co-Chair, Russia
  • Sam Nunn
    Co-Chair, United States
  • Robert H. Legvold
    Director, United States
  • Charles Boyd
    United States
  • Desmond Browne
    United Kingdom
  • Hikmet Çetin
    Turkey
  • Oleksandr Chalyi
    Ukraine
  • Alexander Dynkin
    Russia
  • Viktor Esin
    Russia
  • Herman Gref
    Russia
  • István Gyarmati
    Hungary
  • Stephen Hadley
    United States
  • Tedo Japaridze
    Georgia
  • Donald J. Johnston
    Canada
  • Catherine Kelleher
    United States
  • John Kerr
    United Kingdom
  • John C. Kornblum
    United States
  • Jacques Lanxade
    France
  • Vladimir Lukin
    Russia
  • Klaus Mangold
    Germany
  • Richard Matzke
    United States
  • René Nyberg
    Finland
  • Adam Daniel Rotfeld
    Poland
  • Volker Rühe
    Germany
  • Armen Sarkissian
    Armenia
  • Vyacheslav Trubnikov
    Russia
 
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Please contact EASI staff at EASI@ceip.org.

 

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