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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"strategic culture"”.
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Australia’s Strategic Culture: An investigation of the concept of strategic culture and its application to the Australian case
… differently because they each possess a unique strategic culture is not a new or obscure one – but it nevertheless remains controversial. While some scholars dismiss the utility or practicality of examining states’ cultures when seeking to explain or predict those states’ patterns of strategic …
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Assessing Intentions: The Importance of Iran's Strategic Culture
… This will be achieved through the use of strategic culture, which takes into account the historical and religious sources of Iranian identity, norms, values, and perceptions. It is only through this lens that Iranian intentions can be better understood, and thus the feasibility of a …
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Discursive change in Turkish strategic culture: changing narratives, roles and values
… thesis is devoted to analysing change in Turkish strategic culture, which is conceptualized as change in narratives. In the mainstream literature it has been customary to provide explanations about the change in Turkish foreign policy by applying existing theories which focus on the ideological …
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Ancient Chinese Strategic Culture and Its Implications For Chinese Cyber War Doctrine
… essays that broach this subject encompass the strategic thought of those historic times. Through these texts, China demonstrates the many evolutions of its military doctrine, and now, as China continues to expand and grow in power, they are the best indicator of how China will act in a military …
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Strategic culture and non-nuclear weapon outcomes: the cases of Australia, South Africa and Sweden
This thesis uses a "strategic culture" approach to gain insights into non-nuclear weapon outcomes in Australia, South Africa and Sweden. Strategic culture refers to the ideational and cultural pre-dispositions possessed by states towards military strategic issues. The theoretical aim for this …
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A Contradiction in Will: Understanding China's Strategic Culture in a Civil-Military Context
… rooted in social constructivism to examine the strategic policies of the party-state government, followed by an analysis of the government’s relationship with the military and its beliefs and values towards the use of force. Interactions between the ruling Chinese Communist Party and the …
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The Geopolitical Rise of India and the Development of Sino-Indian Relations
This thesis studies Indian strategic culture and evolution of that culture to the present day. The development of India’s strategic culture is analyzed for its effect on modern Indian grand strategy and geopolitics, with the argument that an evolution in Indian strategic thought has taken place …
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Filme als Träger strategischer Kultur - Eine filmpolitologische Analyse normativ-kultureller Grundlagen europäischer Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
… sicherheitspolitische Fragestellungen möchte der Strategic-Culture-Ansatz erklären, der sich mit kollektiven, kulturell verwurzelten Vorstellungen von Sicherheitspolitik und dem Einsatz militärischer Mittel befasst. Er kann daher einen grundlegenden Erklärungsfaktor liefern, warum es sich immer …
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Nodes without roads : pockets of success, networks of failure in Chinese industrial technology development
… particularist political structure and industrial strategic culture undermine the ability of Chinese firms to associate, learn, and innovate. Particularism and strategic culture interact to undermine reciprocity and trust, weakening the ability of Chinese industrial firms to form effective …
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A Neoclassical Realist Analysis of China’s Foreign Policy Decision-making, 2012 - 2020
… by their perceptions and the prevailing strategic culture working through China’s governing and social institutions. By incorporating both international (or independent) variables and domestic (or intervening) variables, this thesis analyses three unit-level processes of perception, …
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THE POLITICS OF SOUTHERN ASIAN BALLISTIC MISSILES: TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR A MUTUAL RESTRAINT REGIME
… and Pakistan) with the help of the theory of strategic culture. This study proceeds in the following way: it assesses the geo-political forces at work in the region; examines the strategic culture of China, India and Pakistan; traces the motivation of these countries for the strategic weapon …
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The Politics of Stigmatization: Poland as a ‘Latecomer’ in the European Union
… the EU. Analytically, I build on the concept of strategic culture, a set of collective, historically shaped ideas and norms guiding a state’s pursuit of security. I go beyond the existing literature to argue that the guiding principle of a state’s strategic culture is the pursuit of not just …
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Persia Rising: Iran's Nuclear Program
… nuclear Iran. An examination of Iran's history, strategic culture, religion, governmental structure and society gives insight into Iran's motives for weaponization. The dynamics of dual-use technology, weaponization activities, and deception by the Iranian leadership require the United States to …
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Nuclear Forces and the Geopolitical Objectives of the People's Republic of China
… objectives mesh with Chinese political and strategic culture to encourage China's quest for hegemony in the region. Chinese nuclear doctrine is designed to support expansion of China's influence. Improvements in China's nuclear weapons arsenal demonstrate how China is developing the capacity …
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Nuclear Proliferation Theory and Practice: the Case of Iran
… policy from the perspectives of the neo-realist, strategic culture, and nuclear "mythmaking” models of analysis. In so doing, it finds that that the structured application of multiple academic theories can generate real-world insights into state behavior, and that the indicators generated by the …
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Russia's Energy Weapon
… use of energy warfare. I analyze Russian strategic culture and national security issues to depict the Russian Federation's modus vivendi and the government's modus operandi. I explore Russian energy company Gazprom's relationship with the Russian government and look at the natural …
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Enhancing U. S. Global Vision and Security by Assessing the Influences on Decision-Making of Foreign Leaders
… mind-set, and behavior style. Group dynamics and strategic culture will add to the uncertainty of this paradigm. Investing more resources into personality profiling to consider these variations can aid policymakers in their assessments. These profiles can translate behavior so policymakers …
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The Sword and the Shield: Active and Passive Defense Against North Korean Nbc and Ballistic Missile Weapons
… States. The highly militaries and ideological culture based on Juche philosophy has allowed Kim Jong Il to entrench himself firmly in the preeminent position of power in North Korea. To achieve the DPRK’s goals of reunification and maintenance of the regime, North Korea fields a million man …
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The military lens : doctrinal differences, misperception, and deterrence failure in Sino-American relations
Nations, because of their different strategic situations, histories, and military cultures can have dramatically different beliefs about the nature of effective military doctrine, strategy, and capabilities. This dissertation argues that when such doctrines-or "theories of victory"-differ across …
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