Thomas Hughes is an Assistant Professor at Mount Allison University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

• Introduction Section 1: Openness, Confidence, and Duplicity 1. The Political Exercise Emerges: An Introduction to military exercises and signalling 2. Foundations Laid: The Emergence of Confidence-Building Measures and the Helsinki Final Act 3. The Stockholm Document: A new interpretation of ‘Security’ 1980-1989 4. Harmony and Discord in the City of Music: The Negotiation of the Vienna Documents 5. Turbulent Undercurrents: The Negotiations of CSBMs in Europe 1994-2013 6. Wherefore art thou, Confidence? Exploring the absence of new CSBMs in Europe 7. The missing span: Challenges and contradictions in the C(S)BM regime Section 2: Smoke, Mirrors, and the Fall: Soviet and NATO Exercises, 1975 – 1990 8. Feeling the Heat: The pattern and structure of exercises, 1975 – 1990 9. Through the Looking Glass: NATO and Soviet Responses to Exercises Section 3: The Calm and the Storm, 1991 - 2013 10. A Slow Return to a New Russia: The pattern and function of NATO and Russian Exercises 1991 – 2013 11. Betwixt and Between: NATO and Russian Responses to Exercises Section 4: Dangerous Unpredictability: 2014 – 2018 12. The New is Old Again: The Pattern and Structure of NATO and Russian Exercises, 2014-2018 13. Stilted Conversation: The Function of Russian and NATO Exercises 14. Rough Communication Section 5: Chasing Shadows in the Dark: 15. Exercises, Confidence-Building, and Misaligned Threat Perception

Thomas Hughes is an Assistant Professor at Mount Allison University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

• Introduction Section 1: Openness, Confidence, and Duplicity 1. The Political Exercise Emerges: An Introduction to military exercises and signalling 2. Foundations Laid: The Emergence of Confidence-Building Measures and the Helsinki Final Act 3. The Stockholm Document: A new interpretation of ‘Security’ 1980-1989 4. Harmony and Discord in the City of Music: The Negotiation of the Vienna Documents 5. Turbulent Undercurrents: The Negotiations of CSBMs in Europe 1994-2013 6. Wherefore art thou, Confidence? Exploring the absence of new CSBMs in Europe 7. The missing span: Challenges and contradictions in the C(S)BM regime Section 2: Smoke, Mirrors, and the Fall: Soviet and NATO Exercises, 1975 – 1990 8. Feeling the Heat: The pattern and structure of exercises, 1975 – 1990 9. Through the Looking Glass: NATO and Soviet Responses to Exercises Section 3: The Calm and the Storm, 1991 - 2013 10. A Slow Return to a New Russia: The pattern and function of NATO and Russian Exercises 1991 – 2013 11. Betwixt and Between: NATO and Russian Responses to Exercises Section 4: Dangerous Unpredictability: 2014 – 2018 12. The New is Old Again: The Pattern and Structure of NATO and Russian Exercises, 2014-2018 13. Stilted Conversation: The Function of Russian and NATO Exercises 14. Rough Communication Section 5: Chasing Shadows in the Dark: 15. Exercises, Confidence-Building, and Misaligned Threat Perception

Thomas Hughes is an Assistant Professor at Mount Allison University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

• Introduction Section 1: Openness, Confidence, and Duplicity 1. The Political Exercise Emerges: An Introduction to military exercises and signalling 2. Foundations Laid: The Emergence of Confidence-Building Measures and the Helsinki Final Act 3. The Stockholm Document: A new interpretation of ‘Security’ 1980-1989 4. Harmony and Discord in the City of Music: The Negotiation of the Vienna Documents 5. Turbulent Undercurrents: The Negotiations of CSBMs in Europe 1994-2013 6. Wherefore art thou, Confidence? Exploring the absence of new CSBMs in Europe 7. The missing span: Challenges and contradictions in the C(S)BM regime Section 2: Smoke, Mirrors, and the Fall: Soviet and NATO Exercises, 1975 – 1990 8. Feeling the Heat: The pattern and structure of exercises, 1975 – 1990 9. Through the Looking Glass: NATO and Soviet Responses to Exercises Section 3: The Calm and the Storm, 1991 - 2013 10. A Slow Return to a New Russia: The pattern and function of NATO and Russian Exercises 1991 – 2013 11. Betwixt and Between: NATO and Russian Responses to Exercises Section 4: Dangerous Unpredictability: 2014 – 2018 12. The New is Old Again: The Pattern and Structure of NATO and Russian Exercises, 2014-2018 13. Stilted Conversation: The Function of Russian and NATO Exercises 14. Rough Communication Section 5: Chasing Shadows in the Dark: 15. Exercises, Confidence-Building, and Misaligned Threat Perception