Diplomatic Salvage: Making the Case for the Cooperative Airspace Initiative

... curtailed) but also to those operating within the NATO-Russia shared area, throughout which military air traffic has increased substantially since 2014. As has been well documented Russian aircraft flying without transponding their position to civilian air traffic control have on two occasions forced evasive manoeuvres from SAS civilian airliners [1] , with several other lesser-reported incidents exhibiting dangerous characteristics [2] . Russia has also claimed that US and NATO aircraft pose a similar ...