Alexandr Burilkov
Dr. Alexandr Burilkov is the Assistant Director for Research at the GLOBSEC GeoTech Center. He is also a lecturer in international relations at the Centre for the Study of Democracy (ZDEMO), Leuphana University of Lüneburg. He obtained his PhD in political science from the University of Hamburg. He is an expert on military and security issues in Russia, China, and the post-Soviet space. He is also a member of the European Expert Network on Terrorism Issues.
Featured work
Defending Europe without the US: first estimates of what is needed
Europe could need 300,000 more troops and an annual defence spending hike of at least €250 billion in the short term to deter Russian aggression
The US defence industrial base can no longer reliably supply Europe
Europe has long relied on US weapons but the US military industrial base faces constraints and its production may be redirected elsewhere
Europe stands increasingly alone on defence production and needs to act
Europe must rebuild its defence industry; reliance on the US is no longer tenable, whatever the outcome of the US presidential election
Fit for war in decades: sluggish German rearmament versus surging Russian defence production
It will take Germany, and Europe more generally, decades to match current Russian volumes of weapons production