Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 02/10/2026Concerns about controlling AI are running high in Washington and Beijing. Laura Galante on the US crisis of trust over AI, and why China's top intelligence official warns AI could threaten the Chinese Communist Party. 022
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 02/10/2026What would it take for Europe and the US to forge a biotech partnership? Dr. Kiana Aran of UC San Diego joins the 2026 CEPA Tech & Security Conference on October 8 in Washington, DC. cepa.org/event/cepa-2026-tech-secur… 121
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 02/10/2026Jim Berlin went from steelworker and truck driver to founder of Logistics Plus, a global company that has helped keep Ukrainian communities powered through Russia’s attacks. CEPA is proud to present him with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations, Jim. 153
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 30/09/2026“The war is coming home. It’s hard to ignore.” Evgeny Roshchin. cepa.org/article/kremlin-vote-faker… 073
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 29/09/2026When Russian forces besieged Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov stayed, ensuring the human cost of Russia’s war in Ukraine is neither obscured nor forgotten. CEPA is proud to honor him with the 2026 Freedom Fighter Award in recognition of his exceptional commitment to freedom and his courageous journalism. 0228
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 29/09/2026How policymakers respond to the global effort to govern AI will help define the next century of security. We're honored to announce @beyer.house.gov as a featured speaker at the 2026 CEPA Tech & Security Conference on Oct 8. cepa.org/event/cepa-2... 020
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 29/09/2026The US has proposed an AI incident notification mechanism with China. James Lewis helped negotiate the last US-China cyber hotline and remembers asking why a new one was needed. The reply was that “the Chinese don’t answer.” cepa.org/article/ai-safety-little-h… 050
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 29/09/2026US-led peace talks with Russia and Ukraine resumed in September, but the sticking point has not moved. Elena Davlikanova warns that the terms on offer are neither new nor Ukraine-friendly, and Russia still wants Donbas. 070
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 28/09/2026CEPA is delighted to welcome Laura Cooper as a Senior Fellow. Laura brings more than 25 years of national security and defense experience, including leading Pentagon policy on Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia and overseeing US security assistance to Ukraine. 030
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 26/09/2026Federico Borsari discusses Russia’s growing use of shadow war tactics, while noting that he sees no signs of a potential conventional attack. cepa.org/article/how-to-defeat-russ… 071
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 25/09/2026“People more and more realize that the war is coming home. It’s hard to ignore.” Evgeny Roshchin discusses how public sentiment in Russia is shifting as the effects of the war become harder to ignore. cepa.org/article/the-end-of-pretens… 1106
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 25/09/2026"Governments and businesses accept higher costs and greater dependence on American proprietary providers because they believe they are getting meaningfully better performance." Glenn Parham cepa.org/article/ai-safety-little-h… 020
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 25/09/2026"The timing of a US slowdown would be particularly favorable for China as countries, especially in Europe, push for greater AI sovereignty. President Xi Jinping reinforced this strategy at last week’s BRICS summit by pushing deeper cooperation around open-weight AI." Glenn Parham 033
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 24/09/2026"European allies, I think, are looking anxiously to the meeting between President Trump and Xi, wondering, what's our role here? Where do we fit in?" @apolyakova.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/tech-allianc… 051
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 24/09/2026"What is power at the end of the day? It is the ability to transform the world in your own vision, and technology now is doing exactly that." @apolyakova.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/tech-allianc… 020
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 24/09/2026"China is one of the only countries, together with the United States, that can have its own sovereign AI stack." @apolyakova.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/tech-allianc… 010
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 24/09/2026"Are we going to make some progress on AI and the AI safety dialogue that Secretary Bessent has been discussing in recent days? Are we going to see some potential deals on trade?" @apolyakova.bsky.social 121
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 22/09/2026The reason the US can't decouple from China is that the policy of the 1990s worked. Ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, Elly Rostoum draws the distinction between decoupling and de-risking in specific sectors. cepa.org/article/ai-safety-little-h… 031
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 21/09/2026Neither Washington nor Beijing will slow AI development to help the other. Elly Rostoum thinks they may start talking anyway. Ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, she expects contact between the labs rather than between governments. 030
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 20/09/2026Governors headed 55 of United Russia's rosters, and they're judged on turnout and keeping order in their regions. Alexander Kolyandr notes what's coming at them. Russia can't close its deficit without cutting infrastructure, and the regions feel that first. 051
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 19/09/2026Irina Busygina explains how Russia’s elections project normalcy, reflecting a broader pattern in modern autocracies, where institutions originally designed for democracy are repurposed to sustain authoritarian rule. 0128
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 18/09/2026CEPA is delighted to welcome Olga Khakova as a Senior Advisor and a Senior Fellow with our Democratic Resilience Program. Olga brings more than a decade of work on energy security and economic competitiveness across the US and Europe, and we look forward to her contributions on European resilience. 040
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 18/09/2026This isn't the first federal vote Russia has held during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The 2024 presidential election came in the middle of it, producing an official 87% for Putin on 77% turnout. Mikhail Komin notes the machinery has already been run successfully once. 031
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 17/09/2026Thirty governments and more than 1,500 organizations rely on Recorded Future to tell them what's coming at them. CEO and co-founder Christopher Ahlberg will be speaking at the 2026 CEPA Tech & Security Conference, Oct 8 in Washington D.C. cepa.org/event/cepa-2026-tech-secur… 000
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 16/09/2026NATO fighters shot a drone out of Lithuanian airspace, the first ever brought down over the country. General Petrescu calls buying counter-drone capabilities the easiest part of the problem. cepa.org/podcast/cepa-podcast-gener… 1115
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 16/09/2026How policymakers respond to the global effort to govern AI will help define the next century of security. We're honored to announce Rep. Nathaniel Moran (TX-01) as a featured speaker at the 2026 CEPA Tech & Security Conference on Oct 8. cepa.org/event/cepa-2026-tech-secur… 030
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 16/09/2026Elina Beketova describes the Kyiv talks as a positive diplomatic step towards ending the war in Ukraine. But confronting Russian aggression also means addressing its shadow war in Europe. cepa.org/comprehensive-reports/war-… 0102
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 16/09/2026Elina Beketova describes the Kyiv talks as a positive diplomatic step towards ending the war in Ukraine. But confronting Russian aggression also means addressing its shadow war in Europe. cepa.org/comprehensive-reports/war-… 020
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 15/09/2026Russia exploits Ukrainian CCTV networks to refine its missile targeting, and compromises energy networks to watch power move after strikes on the grid. Laura Galante moderated the opening panel at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit, where Ivan Kalabashkin of Ukraine's SBU described the pattern. 0107
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 15/09/2026Who controls AI, and whether we can build and field it fast enough, will define the next century of security. Lucy C. Cronin, VP of EU Public Policy at Amazon, joins the 2026 CEPA Tech & Security Conference on Oct 8 in Washington, DC. cepa.org/event/cepa-2026-tech-secur… 031
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 15/09/2026The train carrying former US and European officials back from Kyiv was very nearly hit. Dr. Alina Polyakova has no doubt Moscow knew who was aboard. cepa.org/comprehensive-reports/war-… 1149
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 15/09/2026Copycat Tech: Why the AI Bubble Might Burst | "Artificial intelligence models are expensive to develop. Will they ever be profitable?" Garvan Walshe cepa.org/article/copycat-tech-why-t… 041
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 15/09/2026One category covers most of what Russia sells to China. Oil, gas, coal, and petroleum dwarf everything else. China's exports to Russia have no such concentration. Tamás Matura notes that Chinese components are now an important input to Russian military production. 062
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 14/09/2026Ukrainian drone strikes have burst the bubble of the air defense dome over Kola, home to Russia's nuclear deterrent. Moscow's ambitions have not changed, but its capabilities have declined. Boulègue concludes that the danger is miscalculation rather than a Kremlin decision to fight in the Arctic. 081
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 14/09/2026GPS jamming over Finnmark and Lapland is now routine, and in November it disrupted Norwegian air ambulance helicopters. These are persistent sub-threshold operations rather than conventional confrontation, and they put civilian aviation and search and rescue at real risk. 2114
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 14/09/2026Russia has largely given up contesting the GIUK gap. The new line of contact with NATO is the Bear Gap, between the Norwegian and Barents Seas. That retrenchment toward territorial defense and near-sea control makes NATO access harder, not easier. 111
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 11/09/2026The Ankara declaration was unusually short. Gen. (Ret.) Daniel Petrescu counts that as an achievement. Romania's former Chief of the Defence Staff calls the communiqué a lesson in strategic communication, carrying a clear recognition that the strategic environment is changing. 152
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 11/09/2026Russia aims to weaken support for Ukraine and divide Europe. David Cattler explains why Moscow’s attacks must be seen as one coordinated campaign. cepa.org/comprehensive-reports/war-… 0146
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 10/09/2026H.E. Jakub Kulhánek, the new Czech Ambassador to the US, joined CEPA this week for one of his first engagements in his new role. The conversation focused on Czech-US relations and how the transatlantic alliance can respond to the many security threats it currently faces. 030
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 10/09/2026CEPA is pleased to welcome Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven as a Distinguished Fellow. A former German diplomat and intelligence professional, he served as Germany's ambassador to the Czech Republic and Poland and later as NATO's first Assistant Secretary General for Intelligence and Security. 031
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 09/09/2026Why Germany? Nico Lange argues that it isn't only the scale of Berlin's support for Ukraine. It's the joint German-Ukrainian arms production, which the Kremlin considers genuinely dangerous. cepa.org/comprehensive-reports/war-… 1145
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 08/09/2026"Russia does not make the distinction between hybrid warfare and real warfare that we are using." Nico Lange cepa.org/comprehensive-reports/war-… 094
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 05/09/2026The unity of the alliance is NATO's center of gravity. Hybrid attacks are designed to erode exactly that. Lt. Gen. Lance Landrum argues the answer starts with resilience: energy security, communications, continuity of government, and citizens who know what's being done to them. 1103
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 03/09/2026What happens if a Russia-China alliance is the first to deploy new biotech at scale in the Arctic? A strategic scenario exercise set in the High North, hosted with the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, explored how the US and its allies could be left scrambling. 051
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 01/09/2026Germany is set to blame Russia for the attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle and is weighing new sanctions with allies. Attribution took a month. Sam Greene argues that each incident absorbed without consequence sets the stage for what the next one can attempt. 0119
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 01/09/2026Undersea cables and chokepoints like the Danish Straits get attention. The electromagnetic spectrum mostly doesn't. Lt. Gen. Lance Landrum calls it an overlooked physical space where intentional jamming and interference happen constantly. 164
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 01/09/2026The SCO met this week on growing influence, murky goals, and members who agree on little. Christopher Walker argues the disagreement is the finding, not the disclaimer. The alignment is real, transactional, and exploitable. 020
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 31/08/2026The CIA director reportedly warned Moscow off attacking NATO. David Cattler argues that's the wrong frame. The question is whether Moscow thinks it can test NATO without starting a war. cepa.org/comprehensive-reports/war-… 0104
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 31/08/2026As President and CEO of Ericsson, Borje Ekholm has helped shape the future of global connectivity, accelerating 5G deployment and advancing the transition to 6G. CEPA is proud to honor him with the Global Impact Award for his visionary leadership and lasting contributions to innovation. 052
Center for European Policy Analysis @cepa.org · 29/08/2026Ratcliffe reportedly warned Moscow against attacking NATO territory. Sabotage and drone incursions are already happening. David Cattler argues allies hold diplomatic, economic, intelligence, cyber, and military instruments. Symmetry isn't the point. 2155