The London Ukraine summit, attended by 16 European leaders, culminated on Sunday evening (2 March 2025) in the announcement of a future peace plan . The summit agreed that Britain and France will draw up a plan to end the conflict. Britain and France intend to propose a one-month ceasefire. The summit also discussed increasing support for Ukraine, strengthening Ukraine’s position, sending troops to Ukraine and rearming Europe.

The concept of security dilemma is central to understanding the conflict between the West and Russia. This understanding helps explain how states’ efforts to strengthen their own security may paradoxically increase uncertainty and tensions in relations between states and their alliances. This blog was first published at Brave New Europe.

We presented this proposal at Think Corner in Helsinki on January 29, 2025. The entire event can be watched on YouTube. The proposal is also available at Brave New Europe, as a CPG Policy blog, and as a pdf file.

How could the prevailing narratives about the war in Ukraine change and what institutional possibilities exist to overcome the zero-sum nature of the war? This text was first published on Brave New Europe on 22 Nov 2024, and versions of it have appeared on various sites Rozenberg Quarterly (25 Nov), Varna Institute for Peace Research (30 Nov, read by Josef Mühlbauer), CPD Policy Blog (9 Dec), and The Arctic Century (in Russia, 9 Dec).