Samuel Charap

@scharap

Senior Political Scientist, @RANDCorporation. Co-Author, Everyone Loses amzn.to/2iPeSzO

Washington, DC rand.org/about/people/c… Joined June 2010

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Not sure what exactly the point here is. The NATO-Russia Council was a relic of a different era, built for cooperation between proclaimed partners. Today and after the war, we need deconfliction and risk reduction between adversaries.

Oana Lungescu @LungescuOana 1d

The #NATO-Russia Council wasn’t just about practical cooperation eg joint exercises against bombs on public transport. It was also about political dialogue on #Ukraine, transparency & risk reduction. But at its last meeting in Jan 2022 Russia denied it would invade #Ukraine again
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Samuel Charap @scharap 2d

Whatever one thinks of the ideas being mooted on European security, it's hard to imagine a durable end to the war that does not address broader regional issues. That's not a "Kremlin talking point." It's reality. 1/5

Samuel Charap @scharap 2d

Not sure about the utility of the NATO-Russia Council in the current environment. It was mostly about small-scale joint projects like training Afghan narco police rather than a forum for open dialogue on European security.

Shashank Joshi Verified account @shashj 2d

Official says resurrection of NATO Russia Council "will hopefully be an integral part of this.. we want to find a way to make it a little bit more robust. We want to reactivate it, but we really need to have a way for communications, de-escalation, and future conflict resolution."

On security guarantees: "we've asked the Russians for us to be able to give an Article Four & Article Five-like security guarantee to Ukraine, along with NATO providing the same. So what they would be getting would be effectively very similar to NATO."
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Samuel Charap @scharap 2d

Important to keep expectations in check about what talks can deliver. For this week, a partial ceasefire would be a huge (and surprising) success. But a new European security order will not agreed before the end of the war, and the war is not going to end this week. 1/3

Samuel Charap @scharap 2d

For concrete proposals on postwar stability between Russia and NATO, particularly relevant for this week's talks, see the piece @HiskiHaukkala and I wrote in @ForeignAffairs earlier this year.

Foreign Affairs Verified account @ForeignAffairs Aug 22

.@scharap and @HiskiHaukkala warn that the relationship between NATO and Russia will remain “extremely volatile” no matter how the war in Ukraine ends—and consider what it will take to avoid a direct clash.
foreignaffairs.com/russia/europes…
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