Toen president Macron enkele jaren geleden meer Europese strategische autonomie eiste, werd er in de Europese hoofdsteden lauwtjes op gereageerd. Zelfs de trouwste bondgenoot van Frankrijk, Duitsland, reageerde afwijzend en uiteraard zag men in Nederland de vertrouwde trans-Atlantische reflex. Nu, in …

Helmut Schmidt wordt volgens Jörg Noll terecht geprezen omdat hij een belangrijke rol speelde in de totstandkoming van het INF-verdrag. Ondanks dat de Amerikaanse president Trump in 2019 het verdrag opzegde, blijft Europa tot op heden profiteren van de Amerikaanse nucleaire veiligheidsparaplu. Ook tijdens …

In deze special van Podcast Pallas Athena zijn Jörg Noll en Trineke Palm aanwezig bij de onderzoeksdag van de Faculteit Militaire Wetenschappen. Ze spreken met de decaan, onderzoeksdirecteuren en onderzoekers over wat de Faculteit Militaire Wetenschappen van de NLDA in huis heeft. Benieuwd wat de faculteit …

In 2017 NATO initiated Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) in the Baltics to deter Russia. While most studies analyse eFP from the perspective of NATO or the troop contributing countries, this chapter addresses the question how the host nations, i.e. in this contribution Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, perceive …

In 2017 NATO initiated Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) in the Baltics to deter Russia. While most studies analyse eFP from the perspective of NATO or the troop contributing countries, this chapter addresses the question how the host nations, i.e. in this contribution Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, perceive …

National political leadership faces complex dynamics in order to plausibly exit a military mission. Putnam's two-level game helps to understand the essence of these dynamics. National political leadership will aim to keep the domestic audience on its hand in order to remain in office, while simultaneously …

In literature on public support for military missions, political discord has been criticised, because it is claimed that having a single strategic narrative as a basis for consensus helps foster such support. In this chapter the author starts from the perspective of the primacy of politics. The chapter …

The author reflects on the nature of exit from state-building missions and the challenge of evaluating it. He does this by first discussing the growing importance of evaluation and the conditions required for a proper evaluation as exposed in the professional evaluation literature, He refers here to …

Overview of recent issues central to political, military, and academic debates about political and military exit strategies from conflicts and wars. One important concept is the supposed political military divide, time and again expressed in the dichotomy end states versus end dates.

Strategic communication includes all messages and activities across the levels of war in order to affect target audiences and to encourage certain behaviour. It can be divided into a horizontal way, the way the messages and activities are crafted and sent to touch the public, and a vertical way, the …