Speakers
Description
The changing European security environment has led to the diagnosis of a “deterrent deficit” on the continent. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and the United States’ unpredictable - if not outright adversarial - behavior have overwhelmed many assumptions held by policymakers about European security. Europe is now faced with challenges coming from the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. Experts, policymakers, and academics are debating the best ways for European NATO states, or the European Union itself, to deter in a multipolar age.
This panel aims to move away from strategic debates and instead examine the politics of deterrence-making. It seeks to investigate the political consequences of strategic choices, the kinds of politics enacted through deterrence practices, and the kinds of politics that become foreclosed in this context.
Looking at different cases across Europe, the panel invites submissions along three main dimensions. The first examines the domestic politics of deterrence, focusing on how preferences for particular deterrence strategies are formed and contested in national contexts. The second explores alternatives to nuclear deterrence and the politics involved in articulating and institutionalizing such alternatives. The third invites contributors to reflect on the political implications of deterrence practices in an age of environmental crisis, and on the potential perverse effects of one on the other.
The aim of the panel is to foster debate among scholars interested in security, regardless of discipline (political science, sociology, economics, history, etc.), about the political implications of the strategic alternatives currently being considered and contested in Europe.
| If you are submitting an Open Panel proposal, have you included all four abstracts in attachment? | Yes, I have included all required information (see below). |
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| Would you like to be considered for travel funding through the NetSec COST Action? | No |
| Are you a member of the NetSec Management Committee? | No |
| What discipline or branch of humanities or social sciences do you identify yourself with? | Political Science; History; International Political Sociology |
| Which of the following best describes your stage of the career? | Post-Doc (or within 3-year of PhD obtention) |
| In which country is your home institution? | Denmark |
| What is your gender? | Male |