Security Culture – Constructivist Conceptual Operationalisation Essay –
Security Culture – Constructivist Conceptual Operationalisation Essay –

Summary/Abstract: Hybrid warfare, a current reality, impossible to assimilate in doctrinal apparatuses and field manuals, requires a translation of the issue from the military level to the societal level and an attempt to operationalise, starting from the latter level and from the concept of “security culture”, the appropriate response of society to hybrid threats. In current security research, the concept of “security culture”, normatively designed through the two most recent national defence strategies (2015-2019 and 2020-2024), is most often used as a vague, even ambiguous, term, despite the normative definition in the National Defence Strategy 2015-2019 Guidance. “The totality of values, norms, attitudes and actions that determine the understanding and assimilation at the level of society of the concept of security and derived concepts” (NDS Guidance, 2015, p. 7) is not an exhaustive definition. In security studies, where the “security culture” operates as a variable subject to precise further measurements, conceptual operationalisation is required. This article is aimed at operationalising the concept so that it could be properly used in future studies, starting from the dimensions proposed by Alexander Siedschlag (2018) based on the categories identified by Peter Katzenstein (1996), filtered according to the local culturalpattern.

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