Cold War-era nuclear thinking can help explain how today’s challenges emerged. But Linde Desmaele warns that uncritical reliance on such thinking leads to misguided policies. Outdated frameworks can distort our understanding of how nuclear weapons are classified, how Russian intent is interpreted, what counts as success, and which actors will shape Europe’s nuclear future
Assistant Professor of Intelligence and Security, Leiden University
Linde's research focuses on nuclear weapons politics – particularly strategies in the space between conventional war and full-scale nuclear exchange – and transatlantic security, with an emphasis on the role of the United States in European security, NATO, and alliance dynamics.
She has held fellowships at the MIT Security Studies Program and Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming in, Nonproliferation Review, Journal of European Integration, International Politics, Journal of Strategic Studies, Survival, Washington Quarterly, Defence Studies, Strategic Studies Quarterly, European Security, and International Studies Review.
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