EWI Vice President Greg Austin comments in a Defense News story about NATO's efforts to counter potential threats from cyber attacks.
Austin's quote: "In launching work on its new security concept, NATO officials have flagged their efforts to understand how the mutual commitment to defense of all members might play out in the event of a major cyberattack by one state on another."
Ria Novosti, the Russian News agency, covered EWI’s report, Euro-Atlantic Security: One Vision, Three Paths. “The principle of equal safety should be realized for all,” said Russian Ambassador Vadim Lukov in his interview about the report.
A analysis of Gazprom's strategic engagement with Central Asia by EWI Associate Danila Bochkarev is featured in the June 2009 issue of Pipeline and Gas Journal.
Bochkarev, who initially wrote the piece for EWI's web site, identifies the commercial interests of Gazprom, the Russian energy giant, and lays out the ways in which these interests translated into a regional pricing strategy. "An understanding of Gazprom’s strategic imperatives in Central Asia could have helped to predict the conglomerate’s new pricing strategy towards Ukraine," he writes. "Further, it could have avoided – or at least attenuated – the January 2009 gas crisis between Moscow and Kiev."
Click here to read Bochkarev's article in Pipeline and Gas Journal
The anti-ballistic missile system, which the US wants to use to protect itself and Europe from a possible strike from Iran, is not up for the job, a joint US-Russian threat assessment says. The report, published on Tuesday by the non-partisan independent think-tank EastWest Institute, is the result of one year of work by both American and Russian scientists and missile experts. It provides an estimate of Iranian present and future capabilities to produce a nuclear warhead and a delivery device to attack Europe or the continental US as well as the proposed anti-missile system’s ability to counter such an attack....
Press TV - Tue, 19th May 2009 A new study by a US-based think tank questions the effectiveness of Washington's planned anti-missile defense system in Eastern Europe. "The Obama administration should conduct a serious technical review of the capabilities claimed for the proposed European missile defense system," said a study published by the New York-based EastWest Institute.
The study, "Iran's Nuclear and Missile Potential", both undermines the plans, proposed by former US President George W. Bush and the likelihood of an "imminent" attack from Iran.
A planned U.S. missile shield to protect Europe from a possible Iranian attack would be ineffective against the kinds of missiles Iran is likely to deploy, according to a joint analysis by top U.S. and Russian scientists.
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A team of U.S. and Russian scientists says deploying missile defenses in Eastern Europe would do little to protect against an attack from Iran. The report from the EastWest Institute says Iran is at least five years away from the technology needed to carry out such an attack, and the proposed U.S. shield "could not engage that missile." Washington Post, The (05/19)
The stated goal of the United States in pushing for an anti-missile missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic is to protect Europe against nuclear attacks from Iran or other "rogue states." But a joint analysis by top U.S. and Russian scientists has concluded the system as proposed wouldn't be able to do that, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
The EastWest Institute, an independent think tank based in Moscow, New York and Belgium, determined that no missile threat from Iran to Europe is imminent within the next five years because Tehran doesn't possess the technical prowess and won't for at least six to eight years.
EWI vice president Ortwin Hennig appearing on Euronews, discussed the strategic benefits and challenges of Turkey’s integration into the EU. Hennig emphasized the strategic importance of Turkish accession, but cautioned that Turkey still has many hurdles to overcome before it becomes an EU member state.
