IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/swpcom/279935.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Russian missiles and the European Sky Shield Initiative: German plans to strengthen air and missile defence in the current threat environment

Author

Listed:
  • Wachs, Lydia

Abstract

Against the background of the Russian missile strikes against Ukraine, Germany has launched the European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI) to strengthen Europe's air and missile defence. In the short term, it seems there is little likelihood of a Russian missile attack against NATO as Moscow probably lacks both the military means and the incentives. But, in the medium to long term, improving air and missile defence in Europe could curb Russia's coercive power vis-à-vis NATO and thereby strengthen the cohesion of the alliance. However, for this to happen and for the full potential of the initiative to be realized, several strategic, technical-operational and political issues should be addressed. Otherwise, ESSI could end up contributing to NATO fragmentation at the political and technical level.

Suggested Citation

  • Wachs, Lydia, 2023. "Russian missiles and the European Sky Shield Initiative: German plans to strengthen air and missile defence in the current threat environment," SWP Comments 45/2023, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:swpcom:279935
    DOI: 10.18449/2023C45
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/279935/1/1854260944.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.18449/2023C45?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    European Sky Shield Initiative; ESSI; European air and missile defence; Nato; Russia; war against Ukraine; long-range weapons; cruise missiles; ballistic missiles; Iris-T SLM; Patriot; Arrow;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:zbw:swpcom:279935. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.swp-berlin.org/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.