NATO agreed its new Strategic Concept at the Lisbon Summit in November 2010. The new Strategic Concept is analyzed in a DIIS Report edited by Jens Ringsmose and Sten Rynning. The report entitled NATO's New Strategic Concept: A Comprehensive Assessment contains 15 individual chapters all on...

The findings presented in this report suggest that although action of a functional type has the potential for delivering a strong and healthy narrative and for reinforcing a positive self-perception, it also holds a considerable risk of leading to a weak and fragmented narrative, which...

The paper addresses the question of how Europe (in NATO and the EU) has responded to changes in US announced and operational strategic and military policy and what the principal factors are for explaining European responses to what is perceived as a new form of American hegemony. The discussion...

Industrielle Kooperationen bieten gerade für innovative Vorhaben Vorteile, denn Forschungs- und Entwicklungsausgaben können so auf mehrere Schultern verteilt und die jeweilige Expertise der Beteiligten effizient genutzt werden. Im Bereich der Verteidigungsindustrie kommt zum Neuigkeitsgrad zu...

This paper analyzes the geographical patterns of city growth in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation in relation to the Stalinist policies of the 1930s to 1950s, and WWII. Using a unique data set on the locations of Gulag camps, and on the evacuation of industrial enterprises during WWII,...