{"id":189,"date":"2024-03-01T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/?p=189"},"modified":"2025-05-28T03:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T02:28:57","slug":"new-book-chapter-defence-and-security-co-authored-with-dr-simon-j-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"NEW BOOK CHAPTER: &#8220;Defence and Security&#8221;, co-authored with Dr Simon J. Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><strong>in &#8220;Comparative European Politics: Distinctive Democracies, Common Challenges&#8221; (Second Edition), Rory Costello and Neil Robinson (Eds.)<\/strong>, <strong>2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4b2eccd6 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>This chapter takes a comparative state-centric approach to illustrate the core issues of defence in Europe. The chapter reviews the influence of history, size, and geography on defence in Europe. It assesses the external threats facing European countries, including territorial threats from neighbouring countries such as Russia (in the light of the ongoing conflict with Ukraine), but also looking at other threats like energy security and cyber security. The chapter compares the how European states respond to these threats, examining their differences and similarities in terms of their strategic culture, defence capabilities, and military alliances. We examine the ongoing efforts to build defence cooperation between countries, including NATO expansion and the emergence of common defence policies at the EU level.<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9780192866448.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"786\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9780192866448-786x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190\" style=\"width:424px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9780192866448-786x1024.jpg 786w, https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9780192866448-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9780192866448-768x1000.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9780192866448-400x521.jpg 400w, https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/9780192866448.jpg 1116w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-bc3d12e9 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9649a0d9 wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in &#8220;Comparative European Politics: Distinctive Democracies, Common Challenges&#8221; (Second Edition), Rory Costello and Neil Robinson (Eds.), 2024 This chapter takes a comparative state-centric approach to illustrate the core issues of defence in Europe. The chapter reviews the influence of history, size, and geography on defence in Europe. It assesses the external threats facing European countries, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikolatomic.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}