ICYMI: BASIC Policy Fellow & Programme Manager Kim Obergfaell spoke with HSS on the framework conditions of nuclear arms control & Germany's role. Watch it here: buff.ly/48woEz9

📣 BASIC's office is closing to celebrate the festive season, reopening on 2nd January. We would like to wish everyone a joyful season and a fantastic start of the New Year. We look forward to re-connecting with you all in 2024!

Not only does the new Russian edition of Joe Nye's Soft Power capture one's attention with a pop-art cover, it also has a new subtitle "How I argued with Brzezinski and Kissinger" and a "Documentary Thriller" label in the bottom That's how you sell academic books, folks!

Effortlessly edgy Estonia calling: who wants to pursue a fully funded PhD in critical peace and security studies at the newly established CEE Security Hub @TallinnUni? Check this out: tlu.ee/yti/call-docto…

Back in Moscow to discuss arms control and non-proliferation. Excellent panels, important discussions revealing grave differences but also the need to re-engage with counterparts. Must continue talking and building bridges. #2024MoscowNonproliferationConference

I am thrilled to see my paper "The Icebreaker Group and COCOM Export Regulation Policy in the 1950s" was accepted by The Palgrave Handbook of Non-state Actors in East-West Relations.I am super grateful for insightful comments from my editors Gry Thomasen Peter Marton | Global Security & Strategy

1/5 On 28th May, BASIC's #RiskReduction Programme hosted a track 2 hybrid workshop, 'Shaping a Sustainable Security Architecture for Europe' in Vienna, Austria with participation from Russian experts.

Gry Thomasen In fact, the next such event is tomorrow, since we are doing a double panel to cover a selection of nine chapters from the book, including ones by Aliaksei Kazharski, Ekaterina Pierson-Lyzhina, Viktor Friedmann, @carlodenuzzo90 and others. See the agenda of the two panels here.

I'm very exited to get started as Research Director @BASIC. Thank you to @Seb_BW and BASIC Board for this exciting opportunity. I look forward to working with colleagues, and support the brilliant BASIC team in producing some of the finest research in the policy world

I am exited to introduce two amazing new initiatives at BASIC that my colleague @Seb_BW and I have developed: the NPT Monitor and Nuclear Transparency Index. Please read more below. More updates to follow.

The Struggle for Abolition—my book on the history of multilateral nuclear disarmament initiatives from the 1960s till today—is live open access CERI Sciences Po Recherche SciencesPo EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament European Research Council (ERC) taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/…

Ten years ago today, 21 September 2014, Moscow. The March of Peace against the war in Ukraine, organised by Boris Nemtsov. Tens of thousands of people on the Boulevard Ring with the slogan “Peace to Ukraine, freedom to Russia!” One day, I know, those words will become a reality.

This is an excellent book and a must read for anybody with an interest in the Arctic

Thank you ambassador Badridze for you excellent presentation BASIC workshop on the future European security architecture

Ett enat Sverige står bakom våra vänner i Ukraina. Från invasionens inledning, under dessa tre krigsår, till idag – och in i framtiden. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen: "Dear @ZelenskyyUA, Denmark proudly stands with Ukraine and the Ukrainian people."

🛡A policy brief authored by Gry Thomasen in the International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis, highlights that NATO is facing an uneven integration of climate risks into defence planning across its 32 member states. 📄Read more: planetarysecurityinitiative.org/news/nato-and-…

🚨 Happening today in Brussels 🚨 “Ten years to survive: Europe’s nuclear & space challenges”: a high-level seminar co-organised by the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS) and IRSEM. 🔎 Opening panel: “Nuclear Deterrence & Arms Control on the Continent”: •

I joined CNN’s Jim Sciutto with my husband Siarhei Tsikhanouski to speak about his years in prison, the torture he endured, and the overwhelming joy of being reunited. He lost half his weight—our daughter didn’t recognize him at first. But he was never broken. edition.cnn.com/2025/06/27/wor…

An historic opportunity now exists to redefine European security, writes BASIC's Research Director Dr Gry Thomasen basicint.org/historic-oppor…