Mutual Assured Deterrence

The degradation of governance within the international system is a hot topic nowadays – and for good reason. The underpinnings of the rules-based world order are crumbling, and basic norms of international behavior and decency are in decay. By almost any definition, we seem to be living in a dangerous – even prewar – type of world. Relations between Russia and the European Union, and with the EU’s close ally the United States, are increasingly fragile. There has been an effort...