In recent years, headline grabbing increases in the Indian defense budget have raised
concerns that India's on-going military modernization threatens to upset the delicate …

In his book, Dr. Michal Smetana of Charles University Prague develops a complex theory of
deviation in international society around the concept of stigma politics. He completes work …

The study of deterrence presents a number of challenges, mainly to do with identifying
deterrence success and defining how deterrence works. Studying cyber deterrence presents …

This book offers a reconceptualisation of conventional deterrence theory, and applies it to
enduring rivalries in the Middle East. The work argues that many of the problems …

Analysing the alliance system in Europe and Asia in a comparative perspective also
demands having a look at the specific role of nuclear weapons in the defence doctrines, and …

This chapter explores the historical and conceptual overlap between cross-domain
deterrence (CDD) and cybersecurity. The authors explain how CDD both constrains and …

Within the framework of the Atlantic Alliance, Europe has been “protected” by the American
nuclear umbrella since the Cold War. This chapter reviews the state of affairs of this …

NATO APPEARS TO BE in a perpetual state of crisis, a crisis that has two origins. First, there
are deep-seated (one might call them fundamental) differences as to the role of military …

Extended nuclear deterrence (END) is a security mechanism that aims to protect one or
more countries (= the protégés) by the nuclear deterrent of a nuclear-armed state (= the …

Since the partition of British India, the dynamics of South Asia has been based on divergent
threat perceptions between India and Pakistan, which has further undermined their bilateral …