Structure, Culture, and Threat: Combinative Approach on Alliance Behaviour of Germany and the United Kingdom
Journal: Trepo - Institutional Repository of Tampere University
Year: 2025

This thesis examines the alliance behaviour of Germany and the United Kingdom. The changing security environment has required states to reassess their security strategies, including alliance behaviour. At the same time two prominent theoretical traditions of international relations, neorealism and strategic culture, are stuck in a debate on the primacy of structural or cultural approaches. The thesis addresses the ongoing theoretical debate between materialist and culturalist explanations by com