What is it about?
Resource allocation to and within defense budgets is grand strategy. NATO and the EU coordinate defense planning and encourage fair burden-sharing among their members. We analyze the effect of agreed planning processes, namely the “NATO Defense Planning Process (NDPP)” on the conversion of political will to resources and then to capabilities development across the transatlantic security community. In a “fog of peace” featuring diverse threats, and in which allies may disagree on strategic rivals and sources of risk, national and regional political economies shape strategy, not the other way around.
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Why is it important?
The political economy of transatlantic security is a complex system linking multiple states and organizations. Burden sharing among NATO allies and their EU partners is more than just a question of who will "pay up." We investigate domestic and regional drivers of defense planning choices, and how allies influence 8ne another.
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Writing this article with Bob Bell, who has been a "practitioner" of transatlantic security since before I was born, was a super experience and I hope others will benefit from our research and experience.
Jordan Becker
King's College London
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This page is a summary of: Defense planning in the fog of peace: the transatlantic currency conversion conundrum, European Security, January 2020, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2020.1716337.
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