The United Kingdom Greenpaper : Issues for the Future Strategic Defence Review
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The Security Studies Centre of the French Institute for International Relations is pleased to welcome Baroness Ann Taylor, the United Kingdom"s current minister for international defence and security, to a conference outlining the issues of the future strategic defence review.
Last February, the British Ministry of Defence published the" Defence Green Paper 2010 ".which constituted a first step towards the drafting of the “Strategic Defence Review”Baroness Ann Taylor, will discuss the main points of the paper and sketch out potential developments in terms of European and international cooperation.
The conference will be held in English and chaired by Dominique David, the Executive Director of the French institute for international relations.
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Nuclear Sharing in Europe: A Contested Policy That Endures
Since the end of the Cold War, the number of US nuclear weapons stationed in Europe has fallen more than seventy-fold, yet their presence in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey remains a quiet pillar of NATO's deterrence posture. This "nuclear sharing" arrangement, central to the Alliance since its founding, has long been contested by public opinion, political parties, and civil society across Europe, without ever being abandoned by host governments. This paradox lies at the heart of the seminar: why does such an unpopular policy persist?