Russia faces Europe

The author of this paper, Dov Lynch, puts forward the view that Russia is open to far deeper security cooperation than ever before in the post-Cold War era. The United States and NATO have succeeded in taking security relations further forward with Russia. The EU must also start to consider proactively how to develop the security dialogue with Russia. This Chaillot Paper argues for greater cooperation between Brussels and Moscow on this subject, and explores the possibility of a joint approach to the conflict in Moldova. The need for a new institutional mechanism, a 'High-Level Group on Wider Security', is also discussed, in order to catalyse the EU-Russia dialogue in peace support and other areas, such as non-proliferation and military reform.