Does Arms Control Have a Future?

The network of arms control and confidence-building regimes, the majority of which were created during and shortly after the Cold War, is falling apart at an increasing pace: from the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty in 2015 to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 2019. With the US announcement to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty in 2020 and grave concerns surrounding the prospect of a 2021 extension of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), many are asking: What can be done to save arms control regimes? How might future arms control regimes look, especially in Europe?

In the latest VCDNP webinar, which took place on 18 June 2020, experts Thomas Countryman (Chair of the Board, Arms Control Association; Former US Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security), Angela Kane (Senior Fellow, VCDNP; Former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Management) and Nikolai Sokov (Senior Fellow, VCDNP) address the overarching question, "does arms control have a future?"

The webinar was moderated by VCDNP Executive Director Elena K. Sokova.

The recording from the webinar is available below and on YouTube.