Security culture on the Eastern Flank
Security culture on the Eastern Flank

Summary/Abstract: Following the Crimean Invasion in 2014, and the Russian War on Ukraine in 2022, states on the Eastern Flank have increased their defense expenditures, prioritizing development of national armed forces in the face of different other social policies and public expenditures. In this context, the current paper aims to study if increased defense expenditures have helped develop a security culture in the last decade in states that are close to the border of war. For this reason we aim to study the impact of defense policies in developing a security culture in countries like Romania, Poland and the Baltic States. We also try to put in context and compare defense expenditures with other civilian public expenditures, in the so called guns and butter effect, in an effort to understand how societies from countries on the Eastern Flank agree or not with defense policies that are prioritized in front of other social policies.

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