1st Edition

NATO and Collective Defence in the 21st Century An Assessment of the Warsaw Summit

Edited By Karsten Friis Copyright 2017
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents a cutting-edge assessment of NATO's collective defence strategies in the immediate aftermath of the July 2016 NATO Warsaw Summit. Collective defence and deterrence came back on the agenda at the 2014 Wales Summit following the Russian annexation of Crimea, and was in many respects a game changer for NATO. The Warsaw Summit was a follow-up and operationalization of the Wales... Read more

1. Introduction: NATO after the Warsaw Summit, Karsten Friis

2. NATO’s Responses to Russian belligerence: An Overview, Jeffrey A. Larsen

3. Can NATO’s new Very High Readiness Joint Task Force deter?, Jens Ringsmose & Sten Rynning

4. Modern deterrence? NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence on the eastern flank, Robin Allers

5. More teeth for the NATO-Tiger: How the Framework Nations Concept can reduce NATO’s growing formation-capability gap, Claudia Major & Christian Mölling

6. NATO Nuclear Adaptation at the Warsaw Summit, Jacek Durkalec

7. Divided by geography? NATO’s internal debate about the eastern and southern flanks, Patrick Keller

8. NATO and Russia: Spiral of distrust, Julie Wilhelmsen & Jakub Godzimirski

9. Sweden and Finland: To be or not to be NATO members, Ann-Sofie Dahl

10. Rethinking strategy: NATO and the Warsaw Summit, Christopher Coker

11. Conclusions: Looking towards Brussels 2017 and Istanbul 2018, Karsten Friis

Biography

Karsten Friis is Head of the Security and Defence Research Group at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and co-editor of Conflict in Cyber Space: Theoretical, strategic and legal perspectives (Routledge, 2016).