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NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2020
Deterrence in the 21st Century—Insights from Theory and Practice
Author(s)
Osinga, Frans
Sweijs, Tim
Contributor(s)
Osinga, Frans (editor)
Sweijs, Tim (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
This open access volume surveys the state of the field to examine whether a fifth wave of deterrence theory is emerging. Bringing together insights from world-leading experts from three continents, the volume identifies the most pressing strategic challenges, frames theoretical concepts, and describes new strategies. The use and utility of deterrence in today’s strategic environment is a topic of paramount concern to scholars, strategists and policymakers. Ours is a period of considerable strategic turbulence, which in recent years has featured a renewed emphasis on nuclear weapons used in defence postures across different theatres; a dramatic growth in the scale of military cyber capabilities and the frequency with which these are used; and rapid technological progress including the proliferation of long-range strike and unmanned systems. These military-strategic developments occur in a polarized international system, where cooperation between leading powers on arms control regimes is breaking down, states widely make use of hybrid conflict strategies, and the number of internationalized intrastate proxy conflicts has quintupled over the past two decades. Contemporary conflict actors exploit a wider gamut of coercive instruments, which they apply across a wider range of domains. The prevalence of multi-domain coercion across but also beyond traditional dimensions of armed conflict raises an important question: what does effective deterrence look like in the 21st century? Answering that question requires a re-appraisal of key theoretical concepts and dominant strategies of Western and non-Western actors in order to assess how they hold up in today’s world. Air Commodore Professor Dr. Frans Osinga is the Chair of the War Studies Department of the Netherlands Defence Academy and the Special Chair in War Studies at the University Leiden. Dr. Tim Sweijs is the Director of Research at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda.
Keywords
Public International Law; International Security Studies; Political Science and International Relations, general; Politics and International Studies; Deterrence theory; Conventional deterrence; Nuclear deterrence; Deterring terrorists; Cyber deterrence; Cross-domain deterrence; Non-Western deterrence concepts; AI and deterrence; Deterrence and peacekeeping; Fifth wave deterrence theory; Open access; International relations; Politics & governmentDOI
10.1007/978-94-6265-419-8Publisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/booksPublication date and place
2021Imprint
T.M.C. Asser PressSeries
NL ARMS,Classification
Public international law
International relations
Politics and government