@incollection{2020:schaller:no_fairwe,
title = {No Fair-Weather Instrument: The Need to Rethink Military Confidence Building in Europe},
year = {2020},
note = {The current crisis of confidence in Europe has clearly had an impact
on defence and security relations between Russia and the West. Against
this backdrop, the relatively constructive and well-functioning
working relations that currently hold among arms control units clearly
stand out, calling for a critical rethinking of how confidence- and
security-building measures (CSBMs) contribute to increasing levels of
trust among OSCE participating States. This paper outlines a new
analytical framework that allows us to better understand how CSBMs
contribute to increased levels of trust between arms control units,
offering us a new perspective on how to enhance their positive effects
on defence and security relations in times of increased political
tension and distrust. The main takeaway of this new perspective is
that CSBMs are not essentially dysfunctional but that many of their
trust-building effects target the wrong actors and levels in defence
and security politics. Amid the current crisis in European security,
governments ought to focus on multilateral forms of verification,
strengthen military-to-military contacts, find ways to extend the
effects of CSBMs beyond the relatively small arms control community,
and invest in more targeted confidence building at a higher political
and military level.},
booktitle = {OSCE Insights 2020},
pages = {101--112},
edition = {1},
author = {Schaller, Benjamin},
publisher = {Nomos},
address = {Baden-Baden},
series = {},
volume = {}
}