2026 European Security Studies Conference

Session

Open Panels

Not scheduled

Stockholm University

448. Extended Nuclear Deterrence through European Eyes

Dr Alexander Sorg (Hertie School), Dr Christopher David LaRoche (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Central European University), Dr Jacklyn Majnemer (LSE), Dr Linde Desmaele (Leiden University), Dr Ludovica Castelli (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

Extended Nuclear Deterrence through European Eyes

Panel Proposal (Open Panels)

Eight decades after their invention, nuclear weapons remain a defining feature of contemporary international politics. While much existing scholarship has focused on the policies or nuclear-armed states, this panel shifts attention to the often-overlooked role of non-nuclear allies within NATO. It advances the study of extended nuclear deterrence by treating NATO’s non-nuclear allies as...

466. Geopolitical Power Europe: A Reality Check in Western Balkans and Eastern Neighbourhood

Filip Ejdus (University of Belgrade), Prof. Nikolaos Tzifakis (University of the Peloponnese)

Extended Nuclear Deterrence through European Eyes

Panel Proposal (Open Panels)

During the first several decades of the European project, the discourse of geopolitics stood in contrast to the spirit of European integration as a peace project and a civilian power. Although geopolitical discourse began to surface within the EU following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Rubicon was decisively crossed in 2019, when Ursula von der Leyen declared her intention to...

487. The politics of deterrence in Europe

Dr Benoît Pelopidas (Sciences Po), Dr Emma Rosengren (Stockholm University), Dr Heljä Ossa (London School of Economics), Dr Matthew Evangelista (Cornell University), Thomas Fraise (University of Copenhagen/Sciences Po)

Extended Nuclear Deterrence through European Eyes

Panel Proposal (Open Panels)

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....

423. Warfare: the conduct of contemporary and future war

Giles Moon (Oxford University), Mr Andro Mathewson (KCL), Mr Baptiste Alloui-Cros (Oxford University), Mr Martijn Rouvroije (Netherlands Faculty of Military Sciences), Ms Natalia Henry (UPenn), Dr Troels Burchall Henningsen (Royal Danish Defence University)

Extended Nuclear Deterrence through European Eyes

Panel Proposal (Open Panels)

This panel will drop below the level of strategy and inter-state politics to examine the conduct of war itself. With conventional war in Europe now a reality for the first time in seventy-five years, and with a material risk of European involvement in further major wars, there is an urgent need for serious academic examination of warfare and how states, and other actors, conduct themselves on...