German strategic culture and the changing role of the Bundeswehr
- The article mobilises the concept of strategic culture in order to identify the impact of history upon contemporary security policy. The article will first look at the "wholesale construction" of a strategic culture after the Second World War in West Germany before exploring its impact upon security policy since the end of the Cold War in two areas: the Bundeswehr's out-of-area role and conscription. The central argument presented here is that the strategic culture of the former Federal Republic now writ large on to the new united Germany sets the context within which security policies are designed. This strategic culture, as will be argued, acts as both a facilitating and a restraining variable on behaviour, making certain policy options possible and others impossible.
| Author details: | Arthur Hoffmann, Kerry Longhurst |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-11448 |
| Publication type: | Postprint |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 1999 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2006/12/20 |
| Source: | WeltTrends : Zeitschrift für internationale Politik und vergleichende Studien. - 22 (1999). - S. 145 – 162 |
| RVK - Regensburg classification: | MA 8157 |
| Organizational units: | Extern / Extern |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Zeitschriften / WeltTrends : Zeitschrift für internationale Politik, ISSN 0944-8101 / Die Ostgrenze der EU 22 (1999) |
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