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A postwar Western stockpile for Ukraine that is amenable to Russia
Ending the war and establishing new regional security demands creative ideas
Mark Episkopos
This article was first published by Responsible Statecraft on 17 July 2025 and is republished here with the permission of the Quincy Institute.
Trump has backed himself into a corner on Ukraine
He now has fifty days to reach agreement on Ukrainian neutrality
Ian Proud*
Human Security Must Remain on the NATO Agenda
By Alexander Gilder*
Shooting Down Carney’s Faulty NATO Pledge
The PM vows military spending will zoom. He’s failed to show the need or how we can afford it.
By Christopher Holcroft, writer and principal of Empower Consulting
From peace to pauses: How ceasefires took over international diplomacy
Ceasefires should be part of a longer process aimed at achieving durable peace, not the endgame.
By Govinda Clayton, Mediation support manager and ceasefire expert at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
UK Greens seek change to NATO policy
By Paul Ingram*
3 July 2025
Europe: irrelevant as an American vassal, or prosperous as part of a Eurasian project?
By Paul Lookman
1 July 2025
This article is an abbreviated summary of a long read available here (in Dutch).
NATO commits to 5% spending plan to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans up
A review of the NATO Summit meeting in The Hague, 24-25 June 2025
Key events and decisions:
Improving oversight and accountability of the NATO Defence Planning Process
18 June 2025
Dayton meeting of NATO Parliamentary Assembly divorced from reality
28 May 2025