Breaking the Nordic Defense Deadlock

Breaking the Nordic Defense Deadlock. Strategic Studies Institute. Stephen Forss and Pekka Holopainen. February 20, 2015.

Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark are urgently considering how best to optimize limited defense resources in the face of a newly assertive Russia. The monograph proposes enhanced defense cooperation, both regionally and with the United States, as a means to ensure the security of U.S. allies in a strategically vital region.

[HTML format with a link to the PDF file, 87 pages, 2.21 MB].

Cyber-security Threat Characterisation: A Rapid Comparative Analysis

Cyber-security Threat Characterisation: A Rapid Comparative Analysis. RAND Corporation. Neil Robinson et al. February 5, 2013.

The study shows comparison of states’ characterisation of cyber-security threats. It involves investigating three lines of enquiry related to the integration of cyber-security within broader national and transnational defence and security frameworks.The first part of the document summarises the findings and provides an overview of the scope and methodology of the research. The second part of the document describes the cyber-security strategies and approaches in ten case studies: Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Russian Federation, the UK and the USA. [Note: contains copyrighted material].

[PDF format, 86 pages, 753.8 KB].