NATO and the EU in the North: What is at Stake in Current Strategy Development?
NATO and the EU in the North: What is at Stake in Current Strategy Development?

Summary/Abstract: NATO is still Europe’s only ‘hard’ security provider but is reduced in that role by its new focus on remote crisis missions and by gradual US disengagement. The EU could intervene in new ways, in non-military emergencies, under new Lisbon Treaty clauses on ‘solidarity’. If Nordic states were more united in their demands and proposals, they might have a better chance of gaining a decisive hearing in the EU than in NATO’s current strategy debate. The EU has a potential, growing role in Russia-handling, and Finland is at least interested in exploring the ‘solidarity’ route to a perhaps stronger EU umbrella over members’ territorial security.

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