Foundation for Strategic Research

Extended deterrence is as strong as the commitment by the US president, and even if there is a nuclear planning committee within NATO, it's not NATO who's going to decide, it's the US president in the White House.

To discuss European security today, I'm joined by Emmanuelle Maître, a Senior Research Fellow at the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique whose work focuses on nuclear deterrence, disarmament and non-proliferation.

Emmanuelle, welcome to the Nuclear Table.

To get us started, I wanted to hear what your opinion is on the transatlantic relationship.

The people who lived on the Kuril Islands are less and less now, and we are losing the first generation who had to leave in 1945.

I am Valérie Niquet, and I am senior research fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris, and I work on geopolitics and strategic affairs in Northeast Asia.

Is this an issue that resonates among people in Japan that aren't directly connected to the islands?

There is a contrast in Japan between what Japanese people, when you look at the polls, feel about Russia and the threat posed by Russia, which is very high, above 80%.