{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Episode 1: NATO and the prospects of European strategic autonomy","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5eb41117570358cd673a3a85/1695d13046918f6b327115f16701a245.jpg?height=200","description":"Dr Bastian Giegerich, IISS Director of Defence and Military Analysis, joins Dr Kori Schake for the first episode of Sounds Strategic.\nThis new series aims to highlight the breadth and depth of analytical and intellectual talent at the IISS.\nIn each episode, Kori will interview one of the Institute’s researchers about their area of expertise, and how they first got involved in the study of international security and defence. They share reading recommendations and discuss impactful data visualisations. Kori also offers each researcher the opportunity to debunk an analytical or policy myth within their field.\nIn this episode, Kori and Bastian examine the significance of NATO’s Trident Juncture exercise, Russia’s reaction and the question of burden-sharing between the United States and Europe in the transatlantic Alliance.\nBastian debunks the myth that Europe can never gain strategic autonomy and suggests that overcoming the ‘progressive anaemia’ in European military capabilities and mentality is imperative to the future of the Alliance.\nFavourite data visualisation:\nArmed unmanned aerial vehicles: production and procurement, IISS \n\nReading recommendations:\nPaul Gordon Lauren, Gordon A. Craig and Alexander L. George, Force and Statecraft (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983).\nHeiko Biehl, Bastian Giegerich and Alexandra Jonas (eds), Strategic Cultures in Europe: Security and Defence Policies Across the Continent (Wiesbaden: Springer, 2013).\nChristopher Coker, Rebooting Clausewitz:‘On War’ in the Twenty-First Century (London: Hurst, 2017).\nDate of recording: 5 November 2018\n \nSounds Strategic is recorded and produced at the IISS in London.\n \nTheme music: ‘Safety in Numbers’ by We Were Promised Jetpacks.","author_name":"International Institute for Strategic Studies"}