On the Cusp

Host Elisabeth Braw speaks to Kusti Salm, Permanent Secretary of the Estonian Ministry of Defence, about Zapad-2021, Russia’s quadrennial military exercise. Salm previously served as the Director Gen…

Host Elisabeth Braw speaks to Ojars Kalnins, a member of Latvia’s parliament and vice chair of its foreign affairs committee, about Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s escalating grayzone agg…

Host Elisabeth Braw speaks to Staffan Truvé, co-founder and CTO of Recorded Future, on the threat of Chinese cyber-aggression and espionage and its Digital Silk Road Initiative. They also discuss how…

Host Elisabeth Braw speaks to Jānis Sārts, Director of NATO’s Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, about how disinformation is changing (think AI and individually targeted disinformation). …

Host Elisabeth Braw, speaks to Member of the European Parliament Andrius Kubilius about Belarus force landing a plan carrying Belarusian dissident journalist Roman Protasevich. They also discuss auth…

Host, Elisabeth Braw, speaks to US Congressman Jim Langevin about how cyber aggression fissures belief in the government and derails our everyday lives. They talk ransomware, preparing the public for…

Host, Elisabeth Braw, discusses the vulnerabilities and risks impacting the global commercial shipping industry with Cormac Mc Garry, Senior Maritime Analyst at Control Risks, and Simon Lockwood, Hea…

Host, Elisabeth Braw, speaks to Mark Dickinson, Space Data Association Chairman and Executive Director, about the dark side of space start-ups, the dangers of overcrowding and space debris, the rise …

Host, Elisabeth Braw, speaks to Ciaran Martin, founding chief executive of the UK National Cyber Security Centre, about Biden's response to the Solar Winds cyber attack, lessons we can learn from the…

Host, Elisabeth Braw, speaks with Chris Inglis, nominee for the United States' first-ever National Cyber Director, about cyber aggression, how to create systems to encourage "good behavior" online, a…

Host, Elisabeth Braw, speaks to Major General (ret.) Ed Wilson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy in the Trump administration, about how governments can respond to cyber aggressi…

Host, Elisabeth Braw, speaks with Professor Sir David Omand, former director of the UK's GCHQ, about cyber-espionage: how governments can defend against it, how should they retaliate, and how our ado…

Host, Elisabeth Braw, speaks with Rear Admiral (ret.) Mark Montgomery, executive director of the US Cyberspace Solarium Commission, about the difficulties Western governments face in deterring Chines…

Host, Elisabeth Braw, speaks with Kerstin Lundgren, third deputy speaker of the Swedish Parliament, about how and why China strongarms Western businesses... and what Western governments can do about …

Host, Elisabeth Braw, speaks with Hasit Thankey, Head of NATO's Civil Preparedness Unit, about NATO's new direction and its plans to help member states build civilians' resilience and prepare them ag…

Host, Elisabeth Braw, speaks to former Estonian president and Stanford University fellow, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, about disinformation and why it has such power to destabilize our democracies.

Host, Elisabeth Braw, speaks to Edward Lucas, journalist and Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), about the rise of #freedomwine to protect Australia's wine industry and t…

Host, Elisabeth Braw, discusses the recent Solar Winds attack against US government agencies with Brigadier General (Ret.) Guy Walsh. Together, they examine the changing rules of cyber warfare and cy…

Host, Elisabeth Braw, speaks to Dr Kevin Casas-Zamora, Secretary General of International IDEA, about the 2020 US Presidential Election, how misinformation compromises our elections, and the future o…

AEI's Elisabeth Braw in conversation with Lord Toby Harris, founder of the UK National Preparedness Commission and member of UK Parliament's Joint Committee for National Security Strategy, about mov…