RIAC and RUSI Report, #45 / 2019
A report based on findings from the third round of the UK–Russia Track 1.5 (non-governmental) bilateral security dialogue, which
The Royal United Services Institute
(RUSI) held in collaboration with the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
The first year of the project identified several security and ...
... security than it did at the beginning of the century. And the bilateral dialogue on nuclear issues between the United States and Russia is extremely difficult at best, and, at worst, in a state of limbo for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, France and the United Kingdom are still nuclear powers and permanent members of the UN Security Council. And Germany has been a non-permanent ... ... of political will and imagination in the nuclear sphere that they demonstrated in 2003.
Andrey Kortunov:
The World After the INF Treaty: How to Get Out of the Dead Zone
The future of nuclear arms control (if it has one) will in any case be multilateral ...
... is falling apart at the seams, creating threats to all the arms control regimes in their current form. The crisis could either bury the very principle of arms control or create an environment for a new strategic stability architecture.
France and the United Kingdom are obviously concerned about the possibility of becoming targets for Russia’s restored non-strategic missiles. In the worst-case scenario, if the INF Treaty is cancelled altogether, the current cooperation on the SCALP/Storm Shadow cruise missile could result in the development of new long-range land-based cruise missiles in response to Russia’s efforts, but this is an undesirable scenario. At ...
... discussion focused on disagreements on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) and their influence on the policies of the following nuclear states: Great... ... nuclear disarmament. A separate session was devoted to the analysis of new challenges for Russia, the USA, and third-country nuclear forces in the conditions of non-maintenance... ... of departments of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom. Russian delegation was represented by RIAC experts, researchers from...