German Efforts to Halt the Disintegration of Nuclear and Conventional Arms Control
Year: 2024

Arms control always figured high on the list of priorities of Germany's foreign and security policy. Since the Cold War, German governments have made significant efforts to establish and strengthen a robust arms control architecture and cooperative security environment in Europe. However, the most important of these arms control agreements eroded during the past twenty years and, eventually, collapsed before Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This chapter examines what Germany did to