This edited volume discusses current Euro-Atlantic security issues, examining a wide range of areas including cyber threats, arms control, relations between key countries, existing conflicts and potential future flash points. It looks at both the key security challenges and responses that could be developed to mitigate these. The editor brings together perspectives from a wide range of authors from policy and academia who are part of the Younger Generation Leaders Network on Euro-Atlantic Security. This book offers a fresh perspective to these important issues from high-profile next generation leaders.
Andrew Futter is Associate Professor of International Politics and Director of Research for Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester, UK.
1. Introduction: The YGLN and the Future of Euro-Atlantic Security
Andrew Futter
Part I: Strategic Stability and East-West Relations
2. Anticipating the Adversary at the Backdoor: Perceptions of Subversion in Russian-American Relations
Igor Istomin
3. Euro-Atlantic Arms Control: Past, Present
Alexandra Bell
4. Cyber threats and Euro-Atlantic security
Pasha Sharikov
5. Achieving Russia-Western security through people-to-people relations
Natalia Viakhireva (Evtikhevich)
6. The NATO Information Office activities in Russia
Maria Usacheva
Part II: Regional Perspectives and Flashpoints
7. Turkey-Russia relations: Complex cooperation
Habibe Ozdal
8. A German perspective on Euro-Atlantic Security
Julia Berghofer
9. Preventing Escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: A Successful Example of Security Cooperation Between Russia and the West?
Mikayel Zolyan
10. Belarus: A country stuck in between Euro-Atlantic security
Yauheni Preiherman
11. The Mediterranean dimension of West-Russia security relations
Marco Siddi
Part: III: The Ukraine Crisis and the Future of Euro-Atlantic security
12. Russia's new Ukraine policy
Andrey Sushentsov
13. The Ukraine crisis and the future of the Euro-Atlantic security system
Oleksiy Semeniy
14. The US's strategic dilemma: Saving transatlantic security or rebalancing to Asia?
Beka Kira