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European Strategic Culture at a Crossroads: National Continuities or Convergence Towards the EU? book cover

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European Strategic Culture at a Crossroads National Continuities or Convergence Towards the EU?

By Xue Mi Copyright 2027
354 Pages 58 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines European strategic culture at both national and supranational level. Focusing on elite perceptions extracted from official discourses, it empirically analyses how the European Union and its member states look at the important dimensions and their perceptual changes in the foreign security and defence realm and explores their convergence/divergence. It also discusses the... Read more

Part 1: Tracing, Conceptualising, and Operationalising European Strategic Culture

1. Introduction

2. Empirical Study of European Strategic Culture: Concepts, Analytical Framework, and Methods

Part 2: Strategic Cultures in Europe: Continuity or Change?

3. French Strategic Culture: Between Autonomy and Alignments

4. Rethinking German Strategic Culture after the Zeitenwende: The End of Restraint?

5. Irish Strategic Culture: Redefining Neutrality in a Rearming Europe

6. Polish Strategic Culture: An Anchor of the East in Times of Flux

7. The Rise of Geopolitical Liberalism and the Hardening of EU Strategic Culture

Part 3: Strategic Cultures in Europe: Convergence and Divergence?

8. Strategic Cultures between the EU Member States: Convergence or Divergence?

9. National Strategic Cultures and Their Attunement with the EU: Harmonising Horizons

Part 4: Conclusion: Grasping European Strategic Culture at a Crossroads

10. Conclusion

Biography

Xue Mi is Lecturer at the Center for European Studies, School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University, China.

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