NATO Articles

Why we need an active defence policy —In an increasingly insecure and unstable world it is vital that we reflect on our defence policy as a matter of course. The challenges we face are varied and unpredictable. A few short years ago it seemed to some that threats from...

The first duty of government is to protect its citizens. It is hard to believe our current government sees this as its priority when this week it emerged that cuts at the Ministry of Defence could lead to troop numbers falling to just 50,000. This is the lowest level...

Arriving at Taras Shevchenko Boulevard in December 2013 I was greeted by a wondrous sight. Kyiv’s remaining statue of Lenin that stood just a few days earlier – and which I had viewed before with a mixture of bafflement and revulsion – had been pulled down and smashed...

On 9 November 1989 as senior international officer of the Labour party I was in Warsaw as a member of a delegation of about 10 members of the Socialist International Disarmament Advisory Committee led by Kalevi Sorsa, the former foreign minister and later prime...