Zur Bedeutung von Kernwaffen unter Bedingungen strategischer Rivalität – analytische Denkanstöße

Abstract

Abstract This article seeks to challenge sluggishness and wishful thinking in dealing with the issue of nuclear deterrence and to expose those tendencies to a reality check. Considering results of the latest research, the article offers methodological, conceptual, and empirical impulses to advance such an approach. On this basis, the article presents three key propositions to keep the current constellation of the European security order and its trajectories in perspective.