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What, if Anything, Will France's Reintegration Imply for the Alliance Debate on Nuclear Weapons

Author(s): Stéfanie von Hlatky

In: European Security

Reviewed: yes

Volume: 19

Issue: 1

Pages: 79–96

Publisher(s): Routledge

Publication Year: 2010


This article asks whether France's return to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)'s integrated military command could translate into a bigger role on nuclear issues within NATO. As NATO prepares its new strategic concept, its nuclear doctrine is bound to change as several allies have expressed their dissatisfaction with the status quo. The presence of American theater nuclear weapons in five NATO countries remains controversial. First, the author argues that the removal of NATO's nuclear weapons does not mean the end of extended nuclear deterrence, by making a distinction between extended deterrence and collective-actor deterrence. Second, the author compares the nuclear postures of NATO, France and the USA to show that harmonization is possible. Finally, the author outlines several options for a new nuclear doctrine under NATO and formulate some policy recommendations.

 

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