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🏆 2025 Best Blog Award Winner❗️The 2% NATO Defence Spending Target is Not Evidence-Based Policymaking
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- December 16, 2024
With Donald Trump’s recent election victory in the United States, pressures on Canada to boost military spending to meet NATO’s 2% GDP target are bound to intensify. Trump has repeatedly criticized NATO members, including Canada, for not contributing “their fair share” to the alliance. This push, however, lacks an evidence-based foundation and overlooks the full
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Security Choices: Nuclear Deterrence or Common Security
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- December 13, 2024
If a state believes possessing nuclear weapons — or relying on those of allies — provides safety, then it may be less inclined to consider other options even if nuclear deterrence is extraordinarily dangerous. The arguments for retaining nuclear weapons are manyfold. Among them: They have not been detonated in war since 1945; and therefore,
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Is Angela Merkel’s Ghost Pushing Germany From the World Stage?
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- December 12, 2024
Otto von Bismarck left a social insurance program; Willy Brandt, the “Neue Ostpolitik” (new eastern policy); Helmut Kohl, German Unification; – and Angela Merkel, paralysis? That’s what critics claim. While Germany at the end of 2024 is in crisis, blaming the former chancellor (alone) is however misleading, unfair and short-sighted. Angela Merkel’s “ghost”, argues a
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Strategic Cultures in Flux: Slovakia, Germany, and NATO’s Eastern Flank
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- December 11, 2024
The war in Ukraine has strengthened the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) cooperation, but it has also revealed the power of domestic dynamics to destabilize the alliance. Slovakia’s “pro-Russian turn” under Prime Minister Robert Fico and Germany’s ambivalent approach to the Ukraine war under Chancellor Olaf Scholz offer two distinct examples of how strategic culture
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