• Back to the Future? Revisiting Military Confidence-Building in Europe 

      Schaller, Benjamin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The last few years have seen a paradigm shift in European security. NATO and Russia are once again stepping up their military activities and building their military arsenals, as deep mistrust and the fear of unintended military escalation seem to have returned. Over the last few decades, such concerns could be mitigated by an interlocking web of arms control and confidence- and security-building ...
    • No Fair-Weather Instrument: The Need to Rethink Military Confidence Building in Europe 

      Schaller, Benjamin (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2020)
      The current crisis of confidence in Europe has clearly had an impact on defence and security relations between Russia and the West. Against this backdrop, the relatively constructive and well-functioning working relations that currently hold among arms control units clearly stand out, calling for a critical rethinking of how confidence- and security-building measures (CSBMs) contribute to increasing ...
    • Strengthening the Role of the OSCE in Times of Increased Tensions and Emerging Crisis Situations 

      Schaller, Benjamin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-05)
      <p>Amid one of the deepest crises of confidence since the end of the Cold War, arms control and military confidence-building frameworks are struggling to develop their full de-escalating and trust-building potential. <p>In fact, numerous crisis situations in the past show that the findings of national verification procedures are particularly prone to the risk of serious political disputes and, in ...
    • Trust and Distrust in Defence & Security Politics - A Multi-Level Analysis of the Defence and Security Relations between Norway, Sweden, Canada, and Russia 

      Schaller, Benjamin (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2020-06-17)
      Trust has always played an important role in world politics. At the same time, trust remains a largely undertheorized concept in the studying of international relations. Against the backdrop of renewed political and military tensions between Russia and the West, this doctoral thesis takes a closer look at the mechanisms, processes and conditions that lead to the formation of trust and distrust in ...