Ukraine and Beyond : Russia's Strategic Security Challenge to Europe

293 Pages·2016·2.863 MB·English

by  Janne Haaland Matlary, Tormod Heier (eds.)

UKRAINE

BEYOND
and
RUSSIA’S STRATEGIC SECURITY
CHALLENGE TO EUROPE
Edited by
JANNE HAALAND MATLARY
and TORMOD HEIER
Ukraine and Beyond

Janne H aaland Matlary • T ormod H eier
Editors
Ukraine and Beyond
Russia’s Strategic Security Challenge to Europe
Editors
Janne Haaland Matlary Tormod Heier
University of Oslo Norwegian Defence University College
Norway Oslo, Norway
ISBN 978-3-319-32529-3 ISBN 978-3-319-32530-9 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32530-9
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CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to thank the Norwegian Command and Staff College and
the University of Oslo for their fi nancial and other support for this book
project. Our work matured in discussions at the Staff College about how
Europe and Russia seem to misunderstand each other at a time when there
is a strong requirement to do the opposite.
We would also like to thank Birgitte Grande and Olav Aalberg at the
Norwegian Defence University College for their help with the cover illus-
tration and the editing of our English.
Possible errors remain our own.
Oslo, 17 June 2016
JHM and TH
Oslo, Norway
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C
ONTENTS
Part I Setting the Scene 1
1 Introduction 3
Janne Haaland Matlary and T ormod Heier
2 Europe, Russia and the World of Magical Realism 1 7
Christopher Coker
3 Realpolitik Confronts Liberal Democracy:
Can Europe Respond? 3 5
Janne Haaland Matlary
4 Deterrence and Limited Wars: Echoes from
the Cold War? 6 1
Gjert Lage Dyndal and Ø istein Espenes
Part II Strategic Interaction 8 3
5 Driving Forces in Russia’s Strategic Thinking 8 5
Igor Sutyagin
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viii CONTENTS
6 Could Britain Respond Strategically
To Russian Aggression? 1 01
Julian Lindley-French
7 Strategic Ability in Europe: The Case of France 1 29
Øyvind Østerud
Part III The Use of Force 1 47
8 Russian Operations: Continuity, Novelties
and Adaptation 1 49
Palle Ydstebø
9 Tools of Russian Infl uence: Information
and Propaganda 1 81
Geir Hågen Karlsen
10 R ussian and Western Views of International Law:
The Case of Crimea 2 09
Jacob Thomas Staib
11 A symmetric Ethics? Russian and Western Perceptions
of War 2 39
Nils Terje Lunde
Part IV Conclusions: Mapping NATO’s Vulnerabilities 2 63
12 T he Logic of Asymmetry: Russia’s Approach
Towards NATO 2 65
Tormod Heier
Index 289
N C
OTES ON ONTRIBUTORS
Christopher   Coker is Professor of International Relations at the London School of
Economics and Political Science. Coker has done extensive research within the fi elds
of war, US and British foreign policy, Contemporary Ideas and Ideologies. His lat-
est books include Warrior Geeks: how 21st century technology is changing the way we
fi ght and think about war (2013), Barbarous Philosophers: refl ections on the nature of
war from Heraclitus to Heisenberg (2010) and W ar in an Age of Risk (2009).
Gjert   L age   D yndal is a Colonel in the Royal Norwegian Air Force and holds a
PhD in Modern History from the University of Glasgow. He is Deputy
Commandant of the Norwegian Command and Staff College at the Defence
University College. He has written extensively on Cold War issues in the High
North within the fi eld of Russian and Western strategies.
Øistein   Espenes is Associate Professor at the Airpower Department at the Royal
Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) Academy. He is a historian and his area is
Norwegian foreign policy and airpower. He was the Dean of the RNoAF Academy
from 2001 to 2009.
Janne   Haaland Matlary is Professor at the Institute for Political Science at the
University of Oslo and adjunct professor at the Norwegian Command and Staff
College. She was deputy foreign minister for Norway from 1997 to 2000, and is a
columnist on the major daily Dagens Næringsliv . She was visiting fellow of
Pembroke College, Oxford University, in 2013. Her most recent book is N ATO’s
European Allies: Military Capability and Political Will (with M. Peterson, (2013)
and she is currently completing an monograph entitled H ard Power in Hard
Times: Can Europe Act Strategically?
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