Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture

Foreword

Thomas G. Mahnken      

Part I: Evolution of the Strategic Culture Paradigm

1. Defining and Scoping Strategic Culture: Promises, Challenges, and Conundrums

Kerry M. Kartchner

2. The Conceptual Heritage of Strategic Culture and Collective Mentality

Beatrice Heuser

3. Growth and Refinement across the Field of Strategic Culture: From First Generation to Fourth

Brigitte E. Hugh

4. The Nature and Utility of Strategic Culture Scholarship

Colin S. Gray

Part II: Dimensions and Levels of Strategic Culture

5. Religion and Strategic Culture

Kerry M. Kartchner

6. Political and Strategic Cultures in the Longue Durée: Insights from the Middle East

Michael Eisenstadt

7. The United States and NATO: Is There a Western Strategic Culture?

Jeffrey A. Larsen

8. Nature, Emergence, and Limitations of an EU Strategic Culture

Christoph O. Meyer

9. In Defense of the National Profile: Strategic Culture Then and Now

Jeffrey S. Lantis

10. Strategic Culture at the Non-State Actor Level

Edward D. Last

Part III: State of the Scholarship: National Strategic Culture Resources

11. American Strategic Culture in the Era of Great Power Competition

Jeannie L. Johnson

12. Russian Strategic Culture: A Critical Survey of the Literature

Mette Skak

13. China’s Identity through a Historical Lens

Neil Munro

14. The Strategic Culture of the United Kingdom

Alastair Finlan

15. French Strategic Culture: International Engagement in the Name of National Autonomy

Maria Hellman

16. Swedish Exceptionalism and Strategic Culture: Swedish Nuclear Decisionmaking

Harrison Menke

17. The Strategic Culture of the Federal Republic of Germany

Thomas Biggs

18. Reinterpreting the (Relatively) Immutable Features of the North Korean Strategic Culture

Steve S. Sin

19. The Strategic Culture of South Korea

Briana Marie Stephan

20. Japan’s Strategic Culture: An Interpretation of Identity

Michael Barron

21. Examining the Strategic Culture of Singapore: Lion City, Poison Shrimp

Nathan Fedorchak

22. Indian Strategic Culture: A Review Essay

Muhammad Shoaib Pervez

23. Pakistan’s Military-Centric Strategic Culture: A Review Essay

Arshad Ali

24. An Iranian Worldview: The Strategic Culture of the Islamic Republic

Ali Parchami

25. Israeli Strategic Culture: State of the Scholarship

Itai Shapira

26. Turkey’s Strategic Culture: State of the Literature

George E. Bogden

27. Understanding Nigeria’s Strategic Culture

Dodeye Uduak Williams

28. Venezuelan Strategic Culture: Balancing History with Twenty-First-Century Socialism

Megan F. Moore

Part IV: The Utility of Strategic Culture for Practitioners and Scholars

29. Strategic Culture Scholarship: A User’s Guide to the Cultural Topography Methodology

Jeannie L. Johnson

30. Strategic Culture and Tailored Deterrence

Nicholas Taylor

31. Strategic Culture and the US Intelligence Community

Roger Z. George and James J. Wirtz

32. The Impact of US Intelligence Community Strategic Culture on Intelligence Analysts

Rob Johnston and Judith Meister Johnston

33. Artificial Intelligence and Strategic Culture

Theo Farrell and Kenneth Payne

34. Strategic Culture and Anticipatory Intelligence

Briana D. Bowen

Part V: Conclusion

35. Consolidating and Enriching the Field of Strategic Culture: Key Themes and Recommendations

Kerry M. Kartchner, Briana D. Bowen, and Jeannie L. Johnson

Biography

Kerry M. Kartchner teaches strategic culture courses for Missouri State University’s Graduate Department of Defense and Strategic Studies and for Johns Hopkins University. He is the editor/author of several books, including Crossing Nuclear Thresholds (2019), On Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century (2014), and Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction (2008).

Briana D. Bowen is the Associate Director and Cofounder of the Center for Anticipatory Intelligence at Utah State University.

Jeannie L. Johnson is the Director of Utah State University's Center for Anticipatory Intelligence and an Associate Professor within the Political Science Department. She is also the author of The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture (2018).