Strategic Culture As An Analytic Tool
Strategic Culture As An Analytic Tool

Summary/Abstract: This article disputes the notion that the European Union is unfit to develop a strategic culture for cultural or structural reasons or that it must change in order to facilitate the development of such a culture. Instead, it posits a counter-intuitive hypothesis: a EU strategic culture has already emerged and that its tenets are not those of a great power. In this article the EU strategic culture is traced in the Union's history, in its power resources, its geopolitical setting and in the attitudes of its leaders. The paper shows how the concepts of “strategic culture” potentially has much to offer in terms of insights to the foreign policy outlook of also complex actors.

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