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Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Culturally Based Insights into Comparative National Security Policymaking

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Jeannie L. Johnson

    1. political science department, Utah State University, Logan, USA

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  2. Kerry M. Kartchner

    1. Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State, USA
      Graduate Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University, Fairfax, USA

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  3. Jeffrey A. Larsen

    1. Larsen Consulting Group, USA
      Science Applications International Corporation, Colorado Springs, USA
      graduate programs, University of Denver and Northwestern University, USA
      International Security and Arms Control section, American Political Science Association, USA

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Strategic Culture Today

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Jeannie L. Johnson, Kerry M. Kartchner, Jeffrey A. Larsen
      Pages 3-14

    3. What Good Is Strategic Culture?

      • David G. Haglund
      Pages 15-31

    4. Strategic Culture: From Clausewitz to Constructivism

      • Jeffrey S. Lantis
      Pages 33-52

  3. Strategic Culture in Action: Explaining WMD Decision Making

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. Strategic Culture and WMD Decision Making

      • Kerry M. Kartchner
      Pages 55-67

    3. U. S. Strategic and Organizational Subcultures

      • Thomas G. Mahnken
      Pages 69-84

    4. Russian Strategic Culture in Flux: Back to the Future?

      • Fritz W. Ermarth
      Pages 85-96

    5. Continuity and Change in Israel’s Strategic Culture

      • Gregory F. Giles
      Pages 97-116

    6. India’s Strategic Culture and the Origins of Omniscient Paternalism

      • Rodney W. Jones
      Pages 117-136

    7. Iranian Strategic Culture and Its Persian Origins

      • Willis Stanley
      Pages 137-156

    8. The Making of Syria’s Strategic Culture

      • Murhaf Jouejati
      Pages 157-169

    9. A Dragon on Defense: Explaining China’s Strategic Culture

      • Huiyun Feng
      Pages 171-187

    10. North Korea and the Political Uses of Strategic Culture

      • Joseph S. Bermudez Jr.
      Pages 189-200

    11. Does Al Qaeda Have a Strategic Culture?

      • Jerry Mark Long
      Pages 201-218

  4. The Way Ahead

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
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    2. Out of the Wilderness: Prime Time for Strategic Culture

      • Colin S. Gray
      Pages 221-241

    3. Conclusion: Toward a Standard Methodological Approach

      • Jeannie L. Johnson
      Pages 243-257

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 259-285
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • political science department, Utah State University, Logan, USA

    Jeannie L. Johnson

  • Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State, USA

    Kerry M. Kartchner

  • Graduate Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University, Fairfax, USA

    Kerry M. Kartchner

  • Larsen Consulting Group, USA

    Jeffrey A. Larsen

  • Science Applications International Corporation, Colorado Springs, USA

    Jeffrey A. Larsen

  • graduate programs, University of Denver and Northwestern University, USA

    Jeffrey A. Larsen

  • International Security and Arms Control section, American Political Science Association, USA

    Jeffrey A. Larsen

About the editors

JEANNIE JOHNSON is Lecturer in the Political Science Department, Utah State University, USA.
KERRY KARTCHNER is Acting Public Diplomacy Officer in the U.S. Department of State.
JEFFREY LARSEN is President of Larsen Consulting Group.

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