Are NATO's mutual security commitments strong enough today to deter all adversaries? Is the nuclear umbrella as credible as it was during the Cold War? Backed by the full range of US and allied military capabilities, NATO's mutual defense treaty has been enormously successful, but today's commitments are strained by military budget cuts and antinuclear sentiment. The United States has also shifted its focus away from European security during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and more recently with the Asia rebalance. Will a resurgent Russia change this? The Future of Extended Deterrence brings together experts and scholars from the policy and academic worlds to provide a theoretically rich and detailed analysis of post–Cold War nuclear weapons policy, nuclear deterrence, alliance commitments, nonproliferation, and missile defense in NATO but with implications far beyond. The contributors analyze not only American policy and ideas but also the ways NATO members interpret their own continued political and strategic role in the alliance. In-depth and multifaceted, The Future of Extended Deterrence is an essential resource for policy practitioners and scholars of nuclear deterrence, arms control, missile defense, and the NATO alliance.

Von Hlatky, Stéfanie, 1982- editor; Wenger, Andreas, editor

Stéfanie von Hlatky; Andreas Balthasar Wenger

Andreas Wenger; Stéfanie Von Hlatky

Andreas Wenger; Stefanie Von Hlatky

Stefanie Von Hlatky; Andreas Wenger

International affairs/security studies, Washington, DC, 2015

Washington, D.C, District of Columbia, 2015

United States, United States of America

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-249) and index.

xv, 259 pages ; 23 cm
This book is about the present and future of US extended deterrence commitments in the NATO alliance. NATO is a mutual security treaty backed by the full range of US and allied military capabilities, and the hope has always been that by extending this military umbrella, especially nuclear weapons, adversaries would be deterred from attacking allied countries. Extended deterrence in NATO has been enormously successful, but today its commitments are strained by military budget cuts, anti-nuclear sentiment, and the US shift away from European security during the 2000s and more recently with the Asia pivot. The resurgence of Russia, however, has at least temporarily reinvigorated NATO and made extended deterrence commitments seem more important but also more risky. This book engages in a cross-sector intellectual exercise, bringing together experts from academia, think tanks and the policy world from the United States, Canada, and Europe to assess the future of US-NATO extended deterrence for regional and international security. The volume also tackles important and controversial debates about the role of nuclear weapons and missile defense, as backbone capabilities in support of extended deterrence
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-249) and index
Introduction : American alliances and extended deterrence : NATO and beyond / Stéfanie von Hlatky -- New thinking on deterrence : threats and instability -- Threat scenarios, risk assessments, and the future of deterrence / Joachim Krause -- US extended deterrence and Europe : time to consider alternative structures? / Jeffrey Larsen -- Extended deterrence, non-proliferation and disarmament -- NATO's new approach to non-proliferation and disarmament / Oliver Meier -- The nuclear straitjacket : American extended deterrence and nonproliferation / Benoit Pelopidas -- NATO's nuclear weapons policy -- NATO's protracted debate over nuclear weapons / Paul Schulte -- Nuclear weapons in NATO's deterrence posture : status quo or change? / Hans Kristensen -- The politics of missile defense -- From offense to defense? : extended deterrence and missile defense / Kerry Kartchner, Oliver Thränert -- Ballistic missile defense in Europe : getting to yes with Moscow? / Paul Bernstein -- Conclusion : reconciling alliance cohesion with policy coherence / Andreas Wenger

Examining issues like alliance commitments, nuclear weapons policy, nonproliferation, and missile defense, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of extended deterrence through the prism of NATO but with implications far beyond.

2023-06-28