Projects
Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative – EASI
About the Project

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.

Commission Members

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Richard Matzke
    United States
  • René Nyberg
    Finland
  • Adam Daniel Rotfeld
    Poland
  • Volker Rühe
    Germany
  • Armen Sarkissian
    Armenia
  • Vyacheslav Trubnikov
    Russia

All work from Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative – EASI

25 Results
event
Perspectives of the Next Generation: Challenges to Security in the OSCE
May 27, 2014

Representatives from Carnegie’s EASI Next Generation Network will summarize the results of the Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative Next Generation Leaders Conference and deliver their recommendations to the broader Euro-Atlantic community.

  • +2
event
France’s Future Role in the World
May 17, 2013

One year after President François Hollande took office, his administration’s new Defense White Paper outlines a significantly scaled down presence for the French military.

commentary
The Game Changer: Cooperative Missile Defense

The Obama administration has a unique opportunity to redefine the U.S.-Russian strategic relationship by cooperating with Moscow on missile defense.

· November 29, 2012
article
Overcoming the Stigma of Cooperative Missile Defense

Europe, Russia, and the United States can take steps to build trust and find a way to work together cooperatively on missile defense.

· May 16, 2012
event
Munich Security Conference
February 4, 2012

EASI brought together former policymakers, diplomats, generals, and business leaders from Russia, North America, and Europe to look at options to address the region’s faltering security system and to chart a roadmap of practical action that would lead to a more secure future.

  • Wolfgang Ischinger
  • Igor Ivanov
  • Sam Nunn
report
Addressing the Turkish Dimension in Creating a Euro-Atlantic Security Community

Turkey is a particularly critical key actor for building a Euro-Atlantic Security Community, with a growing influence within the Euro-Atlantic region.

· February 3, 2012
EASI Working Group Paper
report
Energy as a Building Block in Creating a Euro-Atlantic Security Community

Enhanced energy security is particularly important for a more cohesive security collaboration among the states of the Euro-Atlantic region.

· February 3, 2012
EASI Working Group Paper
report
Toward a Euro-Atlantic Security Community

Today, unprecedented challenges from without and within threaten to reverse the progress toward the safe, secure, undivided Euro-Atlantic world hoped for in the wake of the Cold War. To overcome that future, a twenty-first-century problem demands a twenty-first-century solution.

· February 3, 2012
EASI Final Report
report
Addressing Nonstrategic Nuclear Forces

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

· February 3, 2012
EASI Working Group Paper
report
Historical Reconciliation and Protracted Conflicts

One of the fundamental impediments to molding the Euro-Atlantic nations into a more unified and workable security community is the lingering distrust that poisons too many of the region’s key relationships.

· February 3, 2012
EASI Working Group Paper