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Edward Lucas

Non-Resident Senior Fellow and Senior Adviser at CEPA

Edward Lucas is a non-resident senior fellow and senior adviser at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). He was formerly a senior editor at The Economist. Lucas has covered Central and Eastern European affairs since 1986, writing, broadcasting, and speaking on the politics, economics, and security of the region. A graduate of the London School of Economics and long-serving foreign correspondent in Berlin, Vienna, Moscow, and the Baltic states, he is an internationally recognised expert on espionage, subversion, the use and abuse of history, energy security, and information warfare. He is the author of The New Cold War (2008, revised and republished in 2014), Deception (2011), The Snowden Operation (2014), Cyberphobia (2015), and Spycraft Rebooted: How Technology is Changing Espionage (2018).
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: March 30, 2022

Agenda

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
Thinking Cannot Be a Campaign
LMC 2019
Authoritarianism, Democracy, Digitalisation, Disinformation
Democracy and Digital Misdeeds: Fighting Foreign Manipulation
LMC 2018
Cybersecurity, Disinformation
Hacks and (Fake) Facts: Warfare in the Information Space
LMC 2017
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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

Does Europe need to declare a 'wartime economy'?

Deutsche Welle, May 30, 2023

EDWARD LUCAS ⟩ Globaalne lõuna näeb Ukraina sõda peamiselt läbi Ameerika-vastasuse prisma

Postimees, May 20, 2023

Edwardas Lucasas: Rusijos imperializmo aidai – žvilgsnis iš Baltijos šalių

LRT, May 18, 2023

‘We Will Kill Them Again’: As Russia Advances, Ukrainians Dig In

Rolling Stone, July 14, 2022

Näljamängud Venemaa moodi

Postimees, May 25, 2022

Timesi kolumnist Edward Lucas: järgmine NATO juht peaks olema eestlane, näiteks Kaja Kallas

Eesti Päevaleht, May 23, 2022
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