Defence Studies

NATO at 75 and beyond: internal and external challenges Explore the article collection: NATO at 75 and beyond: internal and external challenges. Published in Defence Studies.

With the NATO summit in the Hague rapidly approaching, this is an opportune time to remind you of the Defence Studies latest special collection of articles: NATO at 75 and beyond: internal and external challenges

www.tandfonline.com/journals/fde...

A tribute to Richard Bitzinger: the future ain’t what it used to be … The field of defence and strategic studies lost one of its most influential voices with the passing of Richard A. Bitzinger in October 2023. This tribute reflects on his pioneering contributions to...

The tribute to Ritchard Bitzinger should not be missed, althouhg he very much is!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Defence Studies Defence Industrial Strategies of Small and Medium Powers: Challenges and Prospects. Volume 25, Issue 2 of Defence Studies

Very excited to announce that our latest special issue - Defence Industrial Strategies of Small and Medium Powers: Challenges and Prospects- edited by Ash Rossiter, Çağlar Kurç & Martin Novella is now out as 2025 issue 2

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fdef20/2...

NATO at 75 and beyond: internal and external challenges Explore the article collection: NATO at 75 and beyond: internal and external challenges. Published in Defence Studies.

Our latest special section is now out. Very special thanks to the guest editors and all of the contributors.
‘NATO at 75 and beyond: internal and external challenges’

www.tandfonline.com/journals/fde...

Looking ahead: imbalance, dependency and NATO’s uncertain future Throughout is 75-year history, NATO’s European and Canadian allies have had a dependent and uneasy relationship with the United States. The relationship persisted because the United States was will...

Full article: Looking ahead: imbalance, dependency and NATO’s uncertain future www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NATO professional military education at 75: rethinking the competency-development process How can NATO and its nations ensure that their military officers are properly prepared for the wars of the future? This question lies at the heart of the Alliance’s mandate to guarantee the freedom...

NATO professional military education at 75: rethinking the competency-development process: Defence Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Moving beyond a ‘hollow concept’: realising women, peace and security at NATO under a Trump presidency NATO’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has failed to reach its full potential and remains a “hollow concept.” While WPS has provided added-value across NATO’s tasks, it falls short of being ...

Full article: Moving beyond a ‘hollow concept’: realising women, peace and security at NATO under a Trump presidency www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Aligning NATO’s partnerships with contemporary world politics The NATO allies often refer to the maintenance of the rules-based international order as their common foreign policy purpose. However, these same allies face great-power contenders and illiberal co...

Aligning NATO’s partnerships with contemporary world politics: Defence Studies:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NATO enlargement: is the door still open after Finland and Sweden? NATO enlargement has had a far-reaching and positive impact on the European security order. Looking at Ukraine’s aspiration to join the Alliance, this article warns against closing NATO’s door and ...

NATO enlargement: is the door still open after Finland and Sweden?: Defence Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NATO and climate change In recent years climate change has become an issue for NATO. Notably, climate change features prominently in the 2022 Strategic Concept. It was not always thus. When NATO celebrated its 70th annive...

Full article: NATO and climate change www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NATO and China: a mission too far? Since the late 2010s, China has become a prominent issue on NATO’s agenda. NATO’s Strategic Concept, adopted in June 2022, was the first to reference China, noting that Beijing’s “stated ambitions ...

Full article: NATO and China: a mission too far? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Space and cyberspace: NATO’s new frontier of defence The first Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 brought the Atlantic Alliance back to its original mission of collective defence. In the meantime, domains of modern warfare – traditionally land, sea ...

Space and cyberspace: NATO’s new frontier of defence: Defence Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NATO, nuclear deterrence and disarmament in an age of US ambivalence NATO seeks to both reinforce its deterrence posture and to reach a world free of nuclear weapons. How have these policies recently evolved, and how will they be impacted by a second Trump administr...

Full article: NATO, nuclear deterrence and disarmament in an age of US ambivalence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Russia, Ukraine, and collective defence The ability to adapt to a constantly evolving security environment has been critical to the success of NATO, yet this is being tested anew as the Alliance faces a second term of Donald Trump in the...

Russia, Ukraine, and collective defence: Defence Studies: Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NATO at 75: enduring and moving forward? Celebrating the anniversary of a military alliance that has been around for 75 years is partly about looking back, identifying past successes and failures. But the exercise is also about looking fo...

All of the articles for the special section 'NATO at 75 and beyond: internal and external challenges' are now available online.

A special thanks to the guest editors Thierry Tardy and Mark Webber

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A tribute to Richard Bitzinger: the future ain’t what it used to be … The field of defence and strategic studies lost one of its most influential voices with the passing of Richard A. Bitzinger in October 2023. This tribute reflects on his pioneering contributions to...

In his memory, the guest editors asked Michael Raska to write the following:

A tribute to Richard Bitzinger: the future ain’t what it used to be … www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Richard A. Bitzinger was supposed to be one of the guest editors of the forthcoming Special Issue:
Defence Industrial Strategies of Small and Medium Powers: Challenges and Prospects

Unfortunately, Richard passed in October 2023.

Barriers and good practices related to the implementation of capability-based planning in the Brazilian armed forces and evaluation by probabilistic preferences The purpose of this research was to identify in the literature about Capability-Based Planning (CBP) the barriers that had been faced in its implementation in several countries’ defense agencies. I...

Full article: Barriers and good practices related to the implementation of capability-based planning in the Brazilian armed forces and evaluation by probabilistic preferences www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Hands off the keyboard”: NATO’s cyber-defense of civilian critical infrastructure Severe state and state-sponsored cyberattacks against critical infrastructure (CI) is a pressing issue in contemporary conflicts. NATO member states have recognized cyberspace as a new domain of wa...

Full article: “Hands off the keyboard”: NATO’s cyber-defense of civilian critical infrastructure www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Strategic framework formulation for assessing the use of space asset for Indonesian national defense The global, regional, and national strategic environments are getting more dynamic and complex, bringing new threats and opportunities for Indonesia. In Asia, the threats that could spark instabili...

Full article: Strategic framework formulation for assessing the use of space asset for Indonesian national defense www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Taming the Storm” of Hybridity: The EU-NATO Relationship on Countering Hybrid Threats – From Functional Overlap to Functional Cooperation This article investigates why the European Union (EU)-NATO relations on countering hybrid threats have been characterised more by cooperation rather than by rivalry. By examining the onset and deve...

Full article: “Taming the Storm” of Hybridity: The EU-NATO Relationship on Countering Hybrid Threats – From Functional Overlap to Functional Cooperation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The impact of artificial intelligence on the officer corps The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) will impact the military in many ways. We examine how AI will affect the expertise, norms, and behavior of the officer corps as the leadership of ...

'The impact of artificial intelligence on the officer corps' by
Tamir Libel

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Recruitment to the Swedish all-volunteer force – impact on quantity and quality of recruits This study describes and analyses volunteer recruitment to the Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF) during the voluntary recruitment years between 2011 and 2017 and compares the results with previous conscr...

'Recruitment to the Swedish all-volunteer force – impact on quantity and quality of recruits' by Emma Jonsson

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The challenges and opportunities for academics in professional military education Military forces have for centuries sought to improve the intellectual, and as a result operational, effectiveness of their forces through a rigorous curriculum of professional military education (P...

Also happy to annouce the publication of the following research articles:

'The challenges and opportunities for academics in professional military education' by Matthew Powell & Dafydd Townley

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Latest articles from Defence Studies Browse the latest articles and research from Defence Studies

The coherent set of articles will be published in the 'collections' section of the website soon, but many of the articles that inform both of these collections are already out online now:
www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...

Latest articles from Defence Studies Browse the latest articles and research from Defence Studies

In the very final stages of production are (1) a special issue on defence industrial strategies of small and medium powers and (2) a special section on NATO at 75.

Entering the war machine: on construction of order in a multinational NATO headquarters This article concerns organisational decision-making in a multinational military NATO headquarters. Despite widespread criticism of its mechanistic and bureaucratic tendencies, empirical research o...

We are very happy to announce the latest Defence Studies research article - 'Entering the war machine: on construction of order in a multinational NATO headquarters' by Søren Sjøgren

You can access the article here: doi.org/10.1080/1470...

Measuring the impacts of remote work in the Finnish defence forces – Development of the validated measurement scale In this paper, we developed a valid measurement scale to assess implications related to remote work. The initial scale was completed by 214 employees of the administrative units of the Finnish Army...

Very happy to announce our latest research article: ‘Measuring the impacts of remote work in the Finnish defence forces - Development of the validated measurement scale’ by Tiina Kähkönen, Mika Vanhala &Aki-Mauri Huhtinen

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Defence Studies Publishes theoretical and empirical research on contemporary defense and emergent warfare and examines how armed forces seek to engage with various challenges.

Finally, 2025 issue one is in the final stages of production, and will be published very soon. In the meantime, have a look at some of our latest articles online here:

www.tandfonline.com/journals/fde...

Further down the track, we will be publishing a special issue on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the remaking of the European security order. So keep a look out for that as well. 2/3