Strategic Cultures In Europe

Author : Heiko Biehl,Bastian Giegerich,Alexandra Jonas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658011680

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Strategic Cultures in Europe by Heiko Biehl,Bastian Giegerich,Alexandra Jonas Pdf

European countries work together in crisis management, conflict prevention and many other aspects of security and defence policy. Closer cooperation in this policy arena seems to be the only viable way forward to address contemporary security challenges. Yet, despite the repeated interaction, fundamental assumptions about security and defence remain remarkably distinct across European nations. This book offers a comparative analysis of the security and defence policies of all 27 EU member states and Turkey, drawing on the concept of ‘strategic culture’, in order to examine the chances and obstacles for closer security and defence cooperation across the continent. Along the lines of a consistent analytical framework, international experts provide case studies of the current security and defence policies in Europe as well as their historical and cultural roots. ​

Author : C. Meyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230598218

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The Quest for a European Strategic Culture by C. Meyer Pdf

The Quest for a European Strategic Culture investigates whether strategic norms and beliefs held in different countries have become more similar since 1989 and explores the implications for the viability of a common European Security and Defence Policy. The empirical evidence emerging from various sources shows some significant changes.

Author : Bastian Giegerich
Publisher : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh & Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3832923713

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European Security and Strategic Culture by Bastian Giegerich Pdf

This book analyzes the extent to which national strategic cultures of EU member states are compatible both with one another and the emerging multinational consensus expressed in the EU's European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). The juxtaposition of ESDP and national strategic culture generates a map of adaptation pressures faced by EU member governments. Case studies of Austria, France, Germany, and the UK are matched with exploratory analysis of Denmark, Ireland, Spain, and Sweden. National strategic cultures define the realm of what is possible regarding national adaptation to international change in defense policy. The EU level serves as an intermediary level between the domestic and the international arenas.

Author : Peter Schmidt,Benjamin Zyla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317980322

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European Security Policy and Strategic Culture by Peter Schmidt,Benjamin Zyla Pdf

With the Lisbon Treaty in place and the European Union increasingly involved in international crisis management and stabilization operations in places near and far, this volume revisits the trajectory of a European strategic culture. Specifically, it studies the usefulness of its application in a variety of circumstances, including the EU’s operations in Africa and the Balkans as well as joint operations with NATO and the United Nations. The contributors find that strategic culture is a useful tool to explain and understand the EU's civilian and military operations, not in the sense of a ‘cause’, but as a European normative framework of preferences and constraints. Accordingly, classical notions of strategic culture in the field of international security must be adapted to highlight the specific character of Europe's strategic culture, especially by taking the interaction with the United Nations and NATO into account. Though at variance over the extent to which security and defence missions have demonstrated or promoted a shared strategic culture in Europe, the authors reveal a growing sense that a cohesive strategic culture is critical in the EU’s ambition of being a global actor. Should Europe fail to nurture a shared strategic culture, its actions will be based much more on flexibility than on cohesion. This book was published as a special issue of Contemporary Security Policy.

Author : Carolina Gerwin
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783346078940

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Strategic culture in the European Union. The significance of the European Security Strategy of 2003 by Carolina Gerwin Pdf

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 8,2, Leiden University, language: English, abstract: The essay deals with the question whether the EU has established a strategic culture regarding its foreign and security policy. It begins with a discussion of the concept of strategic culture, to then dive into the sources of strategic culture and the extent to which the member states of the EU have similarities within those sources, namely geography and history, and political structure and institutions. Afterwards, the European Security Strategy of 2003 is considered as a potential manifestation of EU strategic culture, followed by developments after 2008. The essay concludes that the EU is growing closer to having a common strategic culture, but that it has not happened yet. Due to significant changes with regard to the security situation after the end of the Cold War, caused by conflicts in former Yugoslavia, the attacks on September 11, 2001, and the differences regarding the Iraq war for instance, the necessity for a coordinated European foreign and security policy became evident. Therefore, on December 12, 2003, the European Council agreed to the European Security Strategy (ESS), whose development was seen as an important step in defining common interests and goals of the EU regarding foreign and security policy.

Author : Asle Toje
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134060580

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America, the EU and Strategic Culture by Asle Toje Pdf

This book provides a provocative analysis of relations between Europe and America during the tempestuous years 1998-2004. Analysing EU foreign policy, it concludes that the lessons learnt in interacting with America have been crucial in shaping the emerging EU strategic culture.The book challenges established orthodoxy regarding the sui generis nat

Author : Bastian Giegerich,Maximilian Terhalle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000472509

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The Responsibility to Defend by Bastian Giegerich,Maximilian Terhalle Pdf

The rise or resurgence of revisionist, repressive and authoritarian powers threatens the Western, US-led international order upon which Germany’s post-war security and prosperity were founded. With Washington increasingly focused on China’s rise in Asia, Europe must be able to defend itself against Russia, and will depend upon German military capabilities to do so. Years of neglect and structural underfunding, however, have hollowed out Germany’s armed forces. Much of the political leadership in Berlin has not yet adjusted to new realities or appreciated the urgency with which it needs to do so. Bastian Giegerich and Maximilian Terhalle argue that Germany’s current strategic culture is inadequate. It informs a security policy that fails to meet contemporary strategic challenges, thereby endangering Berlin’s European allies, the Western order and Germany itself. They contend that: Germany should embrace its historic responsibility to defend Western liberal values and the Western order that upholds them. Rather than rejecting the use of military force, Germany should wed its commitment to liberal values to an understanding of the role of power – including military power – in international affairs. The authors show why Germany should seek to foster a strategic culture that would be compatible with those of other leading Western nations and allow Germans to perceive the world through a strategic lens. In doing so, they also outline possible elements of a new security policy.

Author : Sven Biscop
Publisher : Academia Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9038211767

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The ABC of European Union strategy: ambition, benchmark, culture (Egmont Paper 16) by Sven Biscop Pdf

Author : Malena Britz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319397597

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European Participation in International Operations by Malena Britz Pdf

Taking its departure in the concept of strategic culture, this book answers the question of why European countries decide either to participate or not in international military operations. This volume examines strategic culture and its relation to justifications of decisions made by France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom, with regard to four different operations: Operation Enduring Freedom/ISAF in Afghanistan, Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq, Operation Unified Protector in Libya, and EU Navfor/Atalanta outside Somalia. In this work, the authors closely analyse the role of civil-military relations with regard to decisions about participation. What is the role of the armed forces in the political process leading up to the decision? What is their advisory capacity in shaping the mission? Employing a theoretical framework of strategic culture, including aspects of civil military relations, this innovative volume seeks to answer these questions. This text is essential reading for academics, researchers and students of international relations, foreign policy, war studies or civil-military relations.

Author : Iulia-Sabina Joja
Publisher : Ibidem Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 383821286X

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Romania's Strategic Culture 1990-2014 by Iulia-Sabina Joja Pdf

Romania's communist regime cultivated a thorny relationship with the Soviet Union, which facilitated the development of a national security narrative legitimizing a highly isolationist foreign policy. These factors have heavily weighed on Romanian postcommunist strategic thinking and complicated the transition process.

Author : Katalin Miklóssy,Hanna Smith
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498571708

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Strategic Culture in Russia’s Neighborhood by Katalin Miklóssy,Hanna Smith Pdf

This book revisits the concept of strategic culture by examining the relationships between Russia and its neighbors in the east and west. The book explains how the competing Russian and western influences create innovative strategies, that display common regional characteristics of the different countries’ cultures.

Author : Caterina Carta,Richard Higgott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030215446

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Cultural Diplomacy in Europe by Caterina Carta,Richard Higgott Pdf

This edited volume explores European cultural diplomacy, a topic of growing interest across the scholarly and applied public policy communities in recent years. The contributions focus on Europe, culture and diplomacy and the way they are interlinked in the contemporary international context. The European Union increasingly resorts to cultural assets and activity for both internal and external purposes, to foster European cohesion and advancing integration, and to mitigate the demise of other foreign policy components, respectively. This calls for an analysis of the strategic role of culture, especially as it relates to the realm of EU external action. The chapters provide a conceptual discussion of culture in international relations and examine how this concept relates to cultural diplomacy and cultural strategy. The authors discuss roles and relationships with the EU’s 2016 Global Strategy and current EU attempts to foster the EU’s political and societal resilience.

Author : Lawrence Sondhaus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135989750

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Strategic Culture and Ways of War by Lawrence Sondhaus Pdf

This study will provide a badly-needed survey and synopsis of the scholarly literature on strategic culture and ways of war.

Author : Michael J. Williams
Publisher : Lit Verlag
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000111471672

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On Mars and Venus by Michael J. Williams Pdf

In 2003 the idea that Americans were from Mars and Europeans from Venus stirred up serious conversation about the nature of the transatlantic relationship on both sides of the Atlantic. While useful in prompting discussion, the introduction of pop-psychology terminology into IR lexicon was essentially divisive and not analytically helpful. Kagan relied on journalistic generalization, rather than tested academic methods to support his work. This study rectifies that deficiency, exploring the extent that Americans are from Mars and Europeans from Venus by deploying the analytical concept of strategic culture for an un-biased analysis of transatlantic drift.

Author : Kerry Longhurst,Marcin Zaborowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317999140

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Old Europe, New Europe and the Transatlantic Security Agenda by Kerry Longhurst,Marcin Zaborowski Pdf

The post-September 11th security policies of Poland, the UK, France, the US and Germany presented in this new book illustrate how and why the Atlantic community ruptured over Iraq, a result in part, it is argued, of the existence of particular national strategic cultures. Whilst the longer term effects of Iraq for the transatlantic security agenda have yet to fully transpire, what is certain is that the EU's ambitions to become a credible security actor have been seriously questioned, as has the notion of multilateralism as an international norm, as has the function of international law. The book addresses these issues by considering the evolution of the EU's role in the world and the development of American perspectives on the transatlantic security agenda. This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal European Security.