Book Launch: Europe’s Nuclear Umbrella

Join us for the presentation of the book recently published by Cambridge University Press!
Comments and remarks will be offered by

• Michaele de Gooij, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
• Linde Desmaele, Leiden University
• Sico van der Meer, TNO

About the book 

Since the mid-2010s, the collapse of key arms control treaties between great powers has unravelled the post–Cold War security architecture in Europe, heightening nuclear risks to Europe. At the same time, a fresh movement emerged, calling for the total abolition of nuclear weapons, due to their catastrophic humanitarian consequences. European policy-makers found themselves between a rock and a hard place – between the global strategic conundrum calling for growing attention to nuclear deterrence, and domestic audiences demanding just the opposite. Europe's Nuclear Umbrella is about how they navigated this balance. Building on combined insights from public administration, comparative politics, foreign policy analysis, and international relations, Michal Onderco offers a novel theory which reflects the complexity of democratic foreign policy-making in the twenty-first century.

For more information about the book, see the Cambridge University Press’ website

Ahead of the book launch, paperback book can be purchased at The English Bookstore (Passage 24, The Hague). Books will be also available for sale before the presentation (only card payment possible).