This case study contextualises and historicises NATO’s re-emerging nuclear deterrence narratives and practices in the Cold War-era patterns. The task of this case study is to explore how a shared belief in the legitimacy of nuclear deterrence was produced in the NATO-USSR/Warsaw Pact interactions during the Cold War by mapping the evolution of nuclear deterrence…

This case study will provide an interactive analysis of NATO and Russia’s deterrence narratives and counter-narratives, ritualised actions and reactions focusing on the context of NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence in Poland and the Baltic states. The study will dissect in detail NATO’s ‘speaking’ and ‘acting’ of deterrence to Russia since 2014 (Russia’s annexation of Crimea…

This case study will focus on the evolution of deterrence signalling and practice in the realm of cyber and hybrid engagements in contemporary Russian-US relations. The principal task is to delineate Russian and American conceptual and practical extensions of the logic and strategy of deterrence to the realm of hybrid warfare (including cyber, information and…