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Edward Lucas

Founder and Director of the Baltic International Security Centre

Edward Lucas is the Founder and Director of the Baltic International Security Centre, a new think tank. As a security expert, he has written extensively on energy, cyber-security, espionage, information warfare, and Russian foreign and defence policy. Formerly a Senior Editor at The Economist, he was for many years a Senior Non-resident Adviser at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), a think tank based in Washington, DC. He writes a regular column in the London Times, and for Foreign Policy. In 1992, he co-founded the English-language weekly the Baltic Independent in Tallinn. For many years, he was based in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Moscow, and the Baltic states as a foreign correspondent. In 2008, he wrote The New Cold War, a prescient account of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, followed in 2011 by Deception, an investigative account of east-west espionage. An experienced broadcaster, he is a regular contributor to The BBC’s Today and Newsnight programmes, as well as to NPR, CNN, and Sky News. Mr Lucas has lectured at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and other leading universities and has received numerous awards and decorations.
Subjects:
Authoritarianism, Baltic Sea region, Brexit, Capitalism, Cybersecurity, Defence, Democracy, Digitalisation, Disinformation, Eastern Partnership, Economy, Energy, Europe, European Union, Geopolitics, Integration, Intelligence, Journalism, Liberalism, NATO, Populism, Russia, Security, Social Media, United Kingdom, United States, West
Updated: May 6, 2026

Agenda

European Political Identity: Cracks in the Façade or Systemic Faults?
LMC 2026
How to Make the NB8 the New Powerhouse of Europe?
LMC 2025
2024 as the Year of Elections – Can Russian Disinformation Change our Politics?
LMC 2024
To Hold a Pen Is to Be at War: Silencing the Media
LMC 2023
Europe, European Union, NATO, United Kingdom
Here I Am: Europe’s Place in the World
LMC 2022
Disinformation, Intelligence, Journalism, Russia, Social Media, West
To the Limit: War, Social Media, and Intelligence
LMC 2022
13 more

Articles

Mistral short-range air defence missile system.
Baltic Sea region, Defence, NATO
Close to the Wind

In my 2015 report, “The Coming Storm” (2015) I highlighted the strategic incoherence of the Baltic Sea region.

Edward Lucas
LMC 2021
NATO military equipment in Paldiski port, Estonia. NATO is plugging the gaps in the security of the Baltic states.
Brexit, Disinformation, Populism, Russia, United States
Russia May Take Some Unwanted Risks

Even though awareness of Russia is rising, the frontline states in Europe are not safe.

Edward Lucas
LMC 2017

In the news

Without US glue, Nato risks coming unstuck

EUObserver, May 26, 2026

Hot Shots: Cold Sweats

CEPA, May 19, 2025

We must learn the lessons of 1939 to halt march of Putin, Baltic states warn

The Times, May 23, 2024

KOLUMN | Edward Lucas: kui USA ja liitlased ei suuda toime tulla Venemaaga, pole neil Hiinaga mingit šanssi

Delfi, May 21, 2024

Singing the Blues: the Baltics and Ukraine

CEPA, May 19, 2024

Does Europe need to declare a 'wartime economy'?

Deutsche Welle, May 30, 2023
8 more