NATO-Russia Cooperative Airspace Initiative (CAI)—Time for a Reappraisal?

By Kenneth Benson July 28, 2016

NATO defense ministers gather in Brussels, Belgium, June 3, 2014, their first meeting since the crisis in Ukraine and Russia's military occupation and annexation of Crimea. (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais–Pool/Getty Images)

European Leadership Network Research Fellow Thomas Frear argues in a recent policy brief that the Cooperative Airspace Initiative (CAI)—suspended in April 2014—contained many mechanisms, including shared civilian and military air traffic control data, that made the shared area a much safer place for civilians. More than 60 members of the ELN’s network have also endorsed this brief. Is it time to reactivate the Cooperative Airspace Initiative?

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