Euro-Atlantic security is under pressure. Faced with geopolitical shifts and domestic disorder, the West has to rethink its security framework. Failure to reform EU and to revive NATO might lead the West back to the spectre of divided security. These challenges are addressed from the perspective of two European Allies: Germany and Norway.

Robin Allers holds a PhD in History from the University of Hamburg. He is a Senior Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) in Oslo. Carlo Masala holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Cologne. He is a Professor at the Universität der Bundeswehr in Munich. Rolf Tamnes holds a PhD in History from the University of Oslo. He is a Professor and former Director at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS).

Contents: Helga Haftendorn: Germany’s Return to the Global Stage: Continuity and Change in German Security Policy – Rolf Tamnes: Norwegian Foreign and Security Policy: From the Arctic Frontier to the Afghan Battlefield – Michael Paul: Closing Pandora’s Box: Germany, Nuclear Weapons, and Another New START – Kirstin Hemmer Mørkestøl: Cyber: Buzzword or Game Changer? How the Digital Space Affects National and International Security – Geir Flikke: An Arctic Home? The Arctic Policies of Norway and Russia – Annegret Bendiek: Challenges to the Rule of Law: EU-US Counter-Terrorism Cooperation – Alister Miskimmon: Becoming a Responsible Leader? Germany and EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy – Pernille Rieker: Active Participation Despite Limited Influence: Explaining Norway’s Participation in EU’s Security Policy – Patrick Keller: Germany’s New Role in NATO: Status Quo as Strategy – Paal Sigurd Hilde/Helene Forsland Widerberg: Norway and NATO: The Art of Balancing – Sven Bernhard Gareis: The Bundeswehr in the Post-Cold War International Environment – Lene Ekhaugen/Ida Maria Oma: Norwegian Lead in Afghanistan: A Small State Approach to a Large Commitment – Håkon Lunde Saxi: So Similar, Yet so Different: Explaining Divergence in Nordic Defence Policies – Robin Allers/Rolf Tamnes: Just Do It: Bilateral and Minilateral Cooperation to Invigorate European Security.