European Nuclear Deterrence: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Online

European Nuclear Deterrence: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Online, 14 October, 16:00 – 17:30 BST

European Nuclear Deterrence: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Online, 14 October 2025

As the United States seeks to prioritise ‘competition with China’, debates have emerged about how this affects US engagements elsewhere. Europe occupies a contested role in this discussion. Traditi...

European Nuclear Deterrence: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Online, 14 October 2025

Cold War-era nuclear thinking can help explain how today’s challenges emerged. But Linde Desmaele warns that uncritical reliance on such thinking leads to misguided policies. Outdated frameworks can d...

Assistant Professor in Intelligence and Security

America’s grand strategy and the future of the transatlantic alliance

Wat staat er op het spel tijdens de NAVO-top in Den Haag? Drie experts van Universiteit Leiden blikken vooruit.

What is the role of the US theater nuclear weapons (TNW) currently stationed in Europe? Open-source intelligence experts estimate that five European NATO member states host approximately 100 US nuc...

Join Leiden University’s Intelligence and Security Research Group for a panel discussion of the implications of Donald Trump's return to the American presidency for the US Intelligence Community (USIC...

The 2024 PONI Nuclear Scholars explore shifts in states’ nuclear arsenals and strategies, the effects of the Ukraine war on nuclear dynamics, and the transformative power of emerging tech on nuclear d...

20 December 2024

This article proposes a new way to understand cyberspace's impact on international relations by treating it as a “structural modifier.” This shared language with IR allows for a clearer picture of ...

Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a unique global network of policy research centers is accepting applications for the Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow...

In episode 7 of Strategy Speaks, Linde Desmaele and Luis Simón sit down with Daniel Fiott to discuss the aftermath of the re-election of President Trump and the future of European security.

The return of nuclear great power politics (or why we stopped worrying about terrorists and the bomb)

Coercive statecraft refers to the threat or use of force in order to get the target of coercion to comply with a set of demands. Throughout history, states have used a variety of coercive strategies t...