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Arms Control and Europe

New Challenges and Prospects for Strategic Stability

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Editors:
  1. Polina Sinovets

    1. Department of International Relations, Odesa Center for Nonproliferation, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University, Odesa, Ukraine

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  2. William Alberque

    1. International Institute for Strategic Studies, Berlin, Germany

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  • Discusses Russia’s coercive and nuclear deterrence strategy
  • Reviews new military technologies to forecast the nearest future of arms control and strategic stability changes
  • Reveals the most worrisome conflict zones, threatening European security at the moment

Part of the book series: Contributions to International Relations (CIR)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Polina Sinovets, William Alberque, Benjamin Hautecouverture
    Pages 1-5

  3. The US, Russia: New Challenges and Strategic Stability in Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. The US Arms Control Agenda: Impact on Europe

      • William Alberque
      Pages 9-20

    3. Russia’s Foreign and Security Policy: The Evolution of the Escalation Strategy

      • Polina Sinovets, Valeriia Hesse
      Pages 21-28

    4. The Crisis of Nuclear Arms Control amid Russia’s Military Offense Against Ukraine

      • Petr Topychkanov
      Pages 29-33

    5. Russia and Conventional Arms Control in Europe

      • Mykola Bielieskov
      Pages 35-43

    6. New Technologies and Nuclear Deterrence

      • Tom McKane
      Pages 45-53

  5. Regional Dimensions of Strategic Stability in Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Security and Defense Policy of Ukraine in the Main Provisions and Objectives of its Strategic Documents

      • Olga Brusylovska
      Pages 111-124

    3. Ukraine’s Policy toward Regimes of Non-Proliferation and Arms Control

      • Oleksii Izhak
      Pages 125-140

    4. Strategic Risk Reduction in the Black Sea Region

      • Polina Sinovets, Valeriia Hesse
      Pages 141-150

    5. Regional Approaches to Strengthening the Eastern Flank of NATO: Case of Poland and Romania

      • Iryna Maksymenko
      Pages 151-162

    6. Iranian Nuclear Program and Its Impact on the European Security System

      • Polina Sinovets, Yaryna Zavada, Valeriia Gergiieva
      Pages 163-172
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About this book

This book examines the recent changes in strategic stability, caused by the collapse of the international security architecture. Against the background of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, international experts discuss topics and critical issues such as the revanchist strategy of Russia and the readiness of the United States (US) and Europe to give an adequate response; the influence of new technologies in the future of nuclear deterrence; and the crumbling of the arms control and nonproliferation system under the new challenges. The book explains how the combination of these factors lead to a crucial change of strategic stability and the international security landscape, the first such change since the end of the Cold War.

Divided into three parts, the book presents timely analyses on (1) US, Russia: New Challenges and Strategic Stability in Europe; (2) Extended Deterrence and Arms Control in Europe; and (3) Regional Dimensions of Strategic Stability in Europe. It further offers perspectives from and case studies on different countries, such as Ukraine, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the USA, Turkey, Poland, and Romania.


This book is a must-read for scholars for international relations, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of the changing international security architecture, Russia's strategy, arms control, nonproliferation, and the future of nuclear deterrence.   

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of International Relations, Odesa Center for Nonproliferation, Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University, Odesa, Ukraine

    Polina Sinovets

  • International Institute for Strategic Studies, Berlin, Germany

    William Alberque

About the editors

​Polina Sinovets is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Political Science, and Sociology of Odesa I.I. Mechnikov University, Ukraine. She is also the Head of the Odesa Center for Nonproliferation, based at Mechnikov University. She previously worked as a senior research associate at Ukraine's National Institute for Strategic Studies. In 2006, she was a research fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Washington DC, USA; a research fellow at the NATO Defence College in Rome, Italy, in 2015; and in 2017/18 a Fulbright Scholar at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington DC, USA. She is an expert on nuclear weapons policy and published various articles on the topic.

William Alberque is the Director of the Strategy, Technology, and Arms Control Programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Berlin, Germany, focusing on nuclear deterrence and non-proliferation,arms control, risk reduction, and other international security issues. He previously served as the Director of NATO’s Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation Centre, and worked for the US Government for more than two decades on nuclear security and safeguards, WMD non-proliferation, arms control, CSBMs, SALW, CBRN defense, pandemic response, and nuclear accident response.

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