Arms Control: For and By Europe

Author(s): Alexander Bollfrass, Mariana Budjeryn
Editor(s): Oliver Thränert, Annabelle Vuille
Series: CSS Policy Perspectives
Volume: 8
Issue: 10
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Place: Zurich

In this CSS Policy Perspective, Alexander Bollfrass and Mariana Budjeryn explain why cooperative strategic nuclear arms control, key to Europe’s post-Cold War security, has become hostage to resurgent great-power competition. Due to the diversity among European countries in terms of nuclear weapons status and NATO affiliation, both the pursuit of a nuclear ban and a credible pan-European deterrent are untenable. Nevertheless, an institutionalized European coalition for arms control would amplify Europe’s capacity to influence nuclear arms reductions and shape multilateral non-nuclear arms governance.

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