The Future Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture
This project aims to enhance strategic stability by generating new thinking on how the Euro-Atlantic security governance and architecture can be reshaped to meet and manage the contemporary threat environment.
RUSI's Future Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture research project will organise a series of events in London and Brussels to consider the fast-changing landscape of Europe's security architecture. A set of publications will also be produced that will analyse how the region’s leading security organisations are evolving to meet the new situation and identify where new political arrangements are emerging in response to gaps in security governance.
A particular focus for the project will be the role that nuclear policy and extended deterrence are playing in shaping Europe's evolving security architecture, including the place of arms control within the continent's security governance.
Project sponsors
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
International Security Fund Strategic Stability Programme 2025/2026
Project team
Malcolm Chalmers
Deputy Director General
Senior Management
Dr Neil Melvin
Director, International Security
International Security
Lukasz Kulesa
Director, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Madison Agresti
Programme Manager
International Security
Mar Casas Cachinero
Programme Manager
Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Ed Arnold
Senior Research Fellow, European Security
International Security
Callum Fraser
Research Fellow, Russian and Eurasian Security
International Security
Darya Dolzikova​
Senior Research Fellow
Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Jack Crawford
Research Fellow
Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
Peter Jones CMG
Distinguished Fellow; Former COO and Director-General, FCDO
Aims and objectives
This project has been established to provide expertise, resources and processes to strengthen the UK government’s understanding of major and emerging threats to Euro-Atlantic strategic stability, along with evidence-based policy recommendations and strategic convenings to manage threats and prevent miscalculation and unintended escalation.
The effort is designed to increase collaboration between the UK and its allies and partners to build defence and deterrence capabilities and to promote increased support for rules and norms amongst a broader set of countries and multilateral organisations.
