Strategic and Military Culture

18 Pages Posted: 18 Feb 2021

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Jordan Becker

United States Military Academy, Department of Social Science; Free University of Brussels (VUB)-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Institute for European Studies, Students; Chaire ECODEF - IHEDN; Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire (IRSEM - Institute for Strategic Research)

Date Written: January 27, 2021

Abstract

I offer a definition of strategic culture that enables students of NATO, and of international relations and security more broadly, to identify observable dimensions of strategic culture, separate them conceptually from behavior, and test their relationships with material behavior. I embed this definition in strategic culture debates and offer suggestions for scholars of multiple methodological and epistemological approaches to apply strategic culture to the study of NATO. Finally, I ask two straightforward research questions of interest to NATO scholars: is there an emerging NATO strategic culture? How do national strategic cultures affect their behavior as allies? I demonstrate how strategic culture can indeed be operationalized for empirical research addressing these two important questions.

Keywords: Strategic Culture, NATO, Political Economy of Security, DAG, Content Analysis

Suggested Citation

Becker, Jordan, Strategic and Military Culture (January 27, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3774174 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3774174

Jordan Becker (Contact Author)

United States Military Academy, Department of Social Science ( email )

600 Thayer Rd
West Point, NY 10996
United States

Free University of Brussels (VUB)-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Institute for European Studies, Students ( email )

Ixelles
Belgium

Chaire ECODEF - IHEDN ( email )

Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire (IRSEM - Institute for Strategic Research) ( email )

École Militaire - case 38
1, place Joffre
Paris SP 07, 75007
France

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