Patterns of Influence
Subtitle: Strategic Culture Case Studies and Conclusions
Publisher: United States Government Printing Office
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781732003057
Subjects: International relations
Description: "This book addresses applied strategic culture and investigates the usefulness of the concept to better understand how internal state dynamics form unique institutions, behaviors, and perspectives that impact their external interactions with other states. The strategic culture literature successfully provides the necessary intellectual underpinnings; this volume is more concerned with its practical application for policy makers and analysts. This is accomplished by comparing a diverse set of case studies, including Afghanistan, Brazil, China, and Kosovo, to see if they use strategic culture consistently, which provides useful insights despite differences in state size and degree of political and social order"--