Russian active measures under Putin: how should Europe respond?

Join leading experts for a discussion on how Russian tradecraft is evolving and what governments can do to detect, disrupt and counter it.

How does Putin’s Russia engage in contemporary subversion? In what ways is it seeking to shape the thinking and decisions of political leaders, advisers and publics across Europe through covert influence and manipulation?

As the geopolitical landscape becomes increasingly complex, Russia’s methods continue to evolve. This event will examine what is new in the toolkit, the challenges these tactics pose for democratic societies and how liberal democracies should respond.

Meet our speakers and chair

Oleksandr V. Danylyuk closely cooperated for many years with the Ukrainian government structures in the defence, security and intelligence sectors. In 2014, he was the Chief Advisor to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine. He subsequently served as a Special Advisor to the Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and for many years was also a member of the Parliamentary Working Group on Countering Hybrid Threats. For the past few years, he has been the coordinator of the Ukraine-NATO platform for the early detection and countering of hybrid threats.

Dr Jack Watling is Senior Research Fellow for Applied Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute. Jack works closely with the British military on the development of concepts of operation, assessments of the future operating environment, and conducts operational analysis of contemporary conflicts. Jack is the author Statecraft: The New Rules of Power in a Divided World and The Arms of the Future: Technology and Close Combat in the Twenty First Century.

Professor Alexander Evans teaches international security and technology at the LSE School of Public Policy. He has previously served as an Adviser to the Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street, Strategy Director in the Cabinet Office and Director Cyber at the Foreign Office. He led the UN Security Council expert mission, served as British Deputy and Acting High Commissioner to India and briefly to Pakistan, and was a senior adviser in the U.S. Department of State. He was previously a Senior Fellow at Yale, a Gwilym Gibbon Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and Henry Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress.

More about this event

The LSE School of Public Policy (@LSEPublicPolicy) equips you with the skills and ideas to transform people and societies. It is an international community where ideas and practice meet. Their approach creates professionals with the ability to analyse, understand and resolve the challenges of contemporary governance.

Hashtag for this event is: #LSEPublicPolicy

From time to time there are changes to event details so we strongly recommend that if you plan to attend this event you check back on this listing on the day of the event.

Whilst we are hosting this listing, LSE Events does not take responsibility for the running and administration of this event. While we take responsible measures to ensure that accurate information is given here this event is ultimately the responsibility of the organisation presenting the event.

LSE holds a wide range of events, covering many of the most controversial issues of the day, and speakers at our events may express views that cause offence. The views expressed by speakers at LSE events do not reflect the position or views of the London School of Economics and Political Science.