Strategic culture and weapons of mass destruction : culturally based insights into comparative national security policymaking
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Strategic culture and weapons of mass destruction : culturally based insights into comparative national security policymaking
(Initiatives in strategic studies : issues and policies)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book describes strategic culture and its value as a methodological approach to the study of International Relations. In particular, the book uses strategic culture to illuminate a number of case studies on countries that have made decisions regarding the acquisition, proliferation or use of weapons of mass destruction.
Table of Contents
- PART I: STRATEGIC CULTURE TODAY Introduction
- J.Johnson, K.Kartchner & J.Larsen What Good is Strategic Culture?
- D.Haglund The State of the Discipline: From Clausewitz to Constructivism
- J.Lantis PART II: STRATEGIC CULTURE IN ACTION: EXPLAINING WMD DECISION MAKING Strategic Culture and WMD Decision-Making
- K.Kartchner U.S. Strategic and Organizational Sub-Cultures
- T.Mahnken Russian Strategic Culture in Flux: Back to the Future?
- F.Ermarth Continuity and Change in Israel's Strategic Culture
- G.Giles India's Strategic Culture and the Origins of Omniscient Paternalism
- R.Jones The Strategic Culture of Iran and its Persian Origins
- W.Stanley The Making of Syria's Strategic Culture
- M.Jouejat A Dragon in Defense: Explaining China's Strategic Culture
- H.Feng North Korea and the Political Uses of Strategic Culture
- J.Bermudez Does Al Qaeda have a Strategic Culture?
- M.Long PART III: THE WAY AHEAD Out of the Wilderness: Prime Time for Strategic Culture
- C.Gray Conclusion: Toward a Standard Methodological Approach
- J.Johnson
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