Reflections and recommendations on the future of non-proliferation and disarmament

The European Leadership Network (ELN) works to advance the idea of a cooperative and cohesive Europe and to develop collaborative European capacity to address the pressing foreign, defence and security policy challenges of our time.

It does this through its active network of former and emerging European political, military, and diplomatic leaders, through its high-quality research, publications and events, and through its institutional partnerships across Europe, North America, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region.

The ELN conceives of Europe in its widest sense, to include not only the EU but Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the rest of our diverse continent. It is unique in its high-level political reach and in its ability to effectively network the political, diplomatic and security elites of all countries across this region and parts of Central Asia.

It focuses on arms control and political/military issues, including both conventional and nuclear disarmament challenges inside Europe, and has a particular interest in policy challenges arising in both the eastern and southern peripheries of the continent.

The ELN also works to advance economic, political, energy, people to people and sub-regional cooperation within Greater Europe and to build cooperative European solutions to today’s global challenges, be they related to Russia-West relations, nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, or the challenge and opportunity of the rising powers.

It is a non-partisan, non-profit organisation based in London and registered in the United Kingdom.As the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference comes to a close, the ELN took a look at the challenges to disarmament and non-proliferation in a rapidly deteriorating global security environment.

• Primary Source

ELN: Policy Brief, June 2018: Nuclear Responsibility: A New Framework to Assess U.S. and Russian Behaviour https://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ELN-Policy-Brief-Nuclear-Responsibility-A-New-Framework-to-Assess-US-and-Russian-Behavior.pdf

ELN: Commentary, 29.05.18: The nuclear-armed states are creating the conditions for NPT collapse https://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/commentary/the-nuclear-armed-states-are-creating-the-conditions-for-npt-collapse/

ELN: Commentary, 04.06.18: The UK should lead the way to a successful 2020 NPT Review Conference https://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/commentary/the-uk-should-lead-the-way-to-a-successful-2020-npt-review-conference/

ELN: Commentary, 14.06.18: The CTBT must be part of the solution on the Korean Peninsula https://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/commentary/the-ctbt-must-be-part-of-the-solution-on-the-korean-peninsula/

UN: UNODA: 2018 Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, 23 April-4 May 2018 https://www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/npt2020/prepcom2018/

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