386. Sten Rynning - Does Russia Believe Article 5 Still has the Power to Deter its Aggression in Europe?

Russia's illegal war of aggression against Ukraine has shattered peace
in Europe. NATO's Strategic doctrine states that Russia is the most
significant and direct threat to Euro-Atlantic security, peace, and
stability. It’s clear Russia wants to establish spheres of influence and
control other countries through coercion, subversion, aggression, and
annexation. We can now see clearly that Russia uses conventional, cyber
and hybrid means – including disinformation – against NATO Allies and
partners. But it also deploys an array of illegal tactics against
Ukraine – targeting civilian infrastructure, energy, agricultural, food
and the economy and ecology, cultural targets, and civilian dwellings,
uses rape, torture, and terror, and latterly strikes against first
responders, massive glide bombs and chemical weapons. NATO says it does
not seek confrontation and poses no threat to Russia, but that may be
part of the problem. Russia commits crimes on this scale because no one,
apart from Ukraine, has shown the will to stop them, or pose a
significant threat to Russia’s ambitions or Putin’s regime.
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Sten Rynning is Director of the Danish Institute for Advanced Study.
Formerly he was Vice Dean for the Research at the faculty of business
and social sciences, at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). He was
also a member of the Alphen Group and a non-resident associate fellow
at the NATO Defence College. Among the topics he works on are NATO,
European security, and war studies.
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LINKS:
https://twitter.com/stenrynning
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rynning/
https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/sry

BOOKS:
NATO: From Cold War to Ukraine, a History of the World’s Most Powerful
Alliance (2024)
War Time - Temporality and the Decline of Western Military Power
Edited by Sten Rynning, Olivier Schmitt, Amelie Theussen (2021)
https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300270112/nato/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/NATO-New-History-Sten-Rynning/dp/0300270119
https://www.brookings.edu/books/war-time/

ARTICLES:
https://www.ft.com/content/e2429a1f-ca3e-4d97-b08c-80bdea18b47f
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/deterring-armageddon-peter-apps-and-nato-sten-rynning-review
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nato-75-russia-ukraine-putin-baltic-b2522002.html
https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/91922
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