Paul van Hooft
Grand strategy; nuclear weapons; alliances; extended deterrence; European security; American foreign policy; emerging technoligies; Indo-Pacific; trans-Atlantic relations.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal articles
2020
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2016
“Informalization of Nonproliferation: Why PSI is a problematic solution” (with Michal Onderco) (2016), The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 9(1): 81-108.
Research reports
2023
“Good Fear, Bad Fear: How European Defence Investments Could Be Leveraged to Restart Arms Control Negotiations with Russia.” with Davis Ellison, The Hague, Netherlands: Hague Centre for Strategic Studies.
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“Pathways to Disaster: Russia’s War against Ukraine and the Risks of Inadvertent Nuclear Escalation.” With Davis Ellison, and Tim Sweijs, The Hague, Netherlands: Hague Centre for Strategic Studies.
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2022
“Not One without the Other: Realigning Deterrence and Arms Control in a European Quest for Strategic Stability.” with Lotje Boswinkel (2022) The Hague, Netherlands: Hague Centre for Strategic Studies.
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"Guarding the Maritime Commons: What Role for Europe in the Indo-Pacific." with Benedetta Girardi, and Tim Sweijs (2022) The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies.
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“Shifting Sands of Strategic Stability: Towards a New Arms Control Agenda.” with Lotje Boswinkel, and Tim Sweijs (2022) The Hague, Netherlands: Hague Centre for Strategic Studies.
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“Preventing the (Un)Thinkable: Escalation Scenarios and Risk Reduction Measures for Russia and NATO Following the War in Ukraine.” with Daan Sanders and Tim Sweijs (2022) The Hague, Netherlands: Hague Centre for Strategic Studies.
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2021
“Surviving the Deadly Skies: Integrated Air and Missile Defence 2021-2035.” with Lotje Boswinkel (2022) The Hague, Netherlands: The Hague Centre For Strategic Studies.
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"Strengthening deterrence against nuclear, conventional, and hybrid threats Strengths, weaknesses, and insights for US allies in Europe and Asia." with Tim Sweijs and Philip Geurts (2022) The Hague, Netherlands: The Hague Centre For Strategic Studies.
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“Raising the Costs of Access: Active Denial Strategies by Small and Middle Powers against Revisionist Aggression.” with Nora Nijboer, and Tim Sweijs (2021) The Hague, Netherlands: The Hague Centre For Strategic Studies.
Book chapters
2023 (forthcoming)
“State of Denial: the upcoming age of great power competition over economic and military access” in The Future of War after the War in Ukraine, edited by Jeffrey R. Michaels and Tim Sweijs
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2023
"Every Which Way But Loose: The United States, NATO Enlargement, European Strategic Autonomy and Fragmentation.” In Evaluating NATO Enlargement: From Cold War Victory to the Russia-Ukraine War, edited by James Goldgeier and Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson, 415–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
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2021
"U.S. extended deterrence”, Deterrence in the 21st Century—Insights from Theory and PracticePublisher: T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague
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2019
"Europe May Be Done with Power, but Power Is Not Done with Europe: Europe During an Era of American Unipolarity and of Relative Decline", with Annette Freyberg-Inan in Fear and Uncertainty in Europe: The Return to Realism? Eds: Roberto Belloni, Vincent Della Sala, Paul Viotti. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Other
Online articles
2022
“China and the Indo-Pacific in the 2022 NATO Strategic Concept", Atlantisch Perspectief
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“Europa in de Indo-Pacific: moeilijk te vermijden en moeilijk uit te voeren”, Atlantisch Perspectief
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2021
"Transatlantic relations after four years of Trumpism: a postmortem", Atlantisch Perspectief.
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2020
“Eindtijden: trans-Atlantische betrekkingen 75 jaar na het einde van de oorlog”, Atlantisch Perspectief.
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2018
"Erosion, then Collapse: The end of the US-led liberal global order", Atlantisch Perspectief.
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2017
"Big plus small plus small. The future of European defense integration", Atlantisch Perspectief.
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2016
"The renationalization of foreign policy and international order", Atlantisch Perspectief.
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2015
"Te veel vraagtekens voor vrede en veiligheid. Europese veiligheid en afhankelijkheid van de VS", Atlantisch Perspectief .
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"The Long Shadow : victory, defeat, and grand strategy", Atlantisch Perspectief .
2012
"Multipolarity, Multilateralism, and Strategic Competition", GR:EEN-GEM Doctoral Working Paper Series
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2021
"Don't knock yourself out: how America can turn the tables on China by giving up the fight for command of the seas", War on the Rocks
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2020
“Too much, too soon: American ambitions, NATO enlargement, and European security”. H-Diplo | ISSF.
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2018
“Alliances in the 21st Century”, Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations.
2017
“Grand Strategy”, Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations.