Defence Studies
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Defence Studies is a scholarly journal aimed at the study of contemporary defence and emergent warfare from both a theoretical and empirical perspective.
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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
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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.
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June 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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...
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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
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Defence Studies
Defence Industrial Strategies of Small and Medium Powers: Challenges and Prospects. Volume 25, Issue 2 of Defence Studies
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June 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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
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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’
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‘NATO at 75 and beyond: internal and external challenges’
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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.
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April 1, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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’
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‘NATO at 75 and beyond: internal and external challenges’
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Full article: Looking ahead: imbalance, dependency and NATO’s uncertain future www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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: Defence Studies: 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...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
NATO professional military education at 75: rethinking the competency-development process: Defence Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Full article: Moving beyond a ‘hollow concept’: realising women, peace and security at NATO under a Trump presidency 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 ...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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: Defence Studies:
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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...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Aligning NATO’s partnerships with contemporary world politics: Defence Studies:
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NATO enlargement: is the door still open after Finland and Sweden?: 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 ...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
NATO enlargement: is the door still open after Finland and Sweden?: Defence Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Full article: NATO and climate change 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...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Full article: NATO and climate change www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Full article: NATO and China: a mission too far? 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 ...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Full article: NATO and China: a mission too far? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Space and cyberspace: NATO’s new frontier of defence: Defence Studies: 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 ...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Space and cyberspace: NATO’s new frontier of defence: Defence Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Full article: NATO, nuclear deterrence and disarmament in an age of US ambivalence 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...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Full article: NATO, nuclear deterrence and disarmament in an age of US ambivalence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Russia, Ukraine, and collective defence: Defence Studies: Get Access 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...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Russia, Ukraine, and collective defence: Defence Studies: Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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
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A special thanks to the guest editors Thierry Tardy and Mark Webber
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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...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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 special thanks to the guest editors Thierry Tardy and Mark Webber
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.
Defence Industrial Strategies of Small and Medium Powers: Challenges and Prospects
Unfortunately, Richard passed in October 2023.
March 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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.
Defence Industrial Strategies of Small and Medium Powers: Challenges and Prospects
Unfortunately, Richard passed in October 2023.
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....
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...
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March 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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....
Full article: “Hands off the keyboard”: NATO’s cyber-defense of civilian critical infrastructure 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...
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March 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Full article: “Hands off the keyboard”: NATO’s cyber-defense of civilian critical infrastructure www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Full article: Strategic framework formulation for assessing the use of space asset for Indonesian national defense 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...
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March 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Full article: Strategic framework formulation for assessing the use of space asset for Indonesian national defense www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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....
“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...
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March 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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....
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
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'The challenges and opportunities for academics in professional military education' by Matthew Powell & Dafydd Townley
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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...
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March 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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
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'The challenges and opportunities for academics in professional military education' by Matthew Powell & Dafydd Townley
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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.
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March 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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.
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...
You can access the article here: doi.org/10.1080/1470...
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...
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March 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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...
You can access the article here: doi.org/10.1080/1470...
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
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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...
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January 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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
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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:
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Defence Studies
Publishes theoretical and empirical research on contemporary defense and emergent warfare and examines how armed forces seek to engage with various challenges.
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January 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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...
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
January 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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