NATO's Strategic Adaptation, the Warsaw Summit and Beyond
Journal: The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs
Year: 2016

In security terms, European citizens are now worse off than only a few years ago. While threat perceptions among electorates, at least as measured by opinion polls, acknowledge as much, means to address mounting risks and threats have not recovered from a long cycle of defence cuts, beginning in post-Cold War environment of 1990s and accelerating after 2008 financial crisis. The NATO defence investment pledge agreed in 2014 has not yet fundamentally changed this. Russia brought warfare and zero-