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Romania's strategic culture 1990--2014 : continuity and change in a post-communist country's evolution of national interests and security policies /
Analysis of strategic culture facilitates a comprehensive understanding of a nation's security identity and patterns of policy conduct. Though strategic culture changes over time, why and how these mutations take place has not been researched much so far. This book sheds light on the reasons wh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stuttgart :
Ibidem Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ;
202. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Table of Contents; Foreword; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Aim and Envisioned Contribution; Structure; I. Concepts and Methodology: Strategic Culture in Terms of Components, Subject and Method of Analysis, Form, Dimensions, and Explanatory Model; 1. Strategic Culture-Term Definition, Conceptual Delimitation and Methodological Issues; Concept Evolution; Concept Definition; Methodology; 2. Strategic Culture's Components: Identity, Norms, Culture; Identity; Norms; Culture; 3. Strategic Culture's Subject of Analysis: Security Discourse
- 4. Strategic Culture's Method of Analysis: Discourse Analysis5. Strategic Culture's Form: Strategy; 6. Strategic Culture's Analytical Framework: Dimensions; 7. Change Conceptualization in Strategic Culture: Developing a New Explanatory Model; II. The Conceptualized National Identity of Romania; The Concept of Nation: A Never-Ending Quest; The Formative Moments; The Search for Identity; The Dichotomic Images of the State; The Westernists and the Autochthonists; The West as Romania's Touchstone; Romania's Two Possible Paths; The State as Insurance for the Nation
- Attachment Dimensions of the Nation: Patriotism and CohesionConclusion; III. Romania's Understanding of Security; The First Discursive Period 1848-1879: Uncertain Status; Insularity; The Second Discursive Period 1878-1918: Seeking Legitimation and Avoiding Isolation; Reluctant Neutrality; Role Consolidation; Between Balancer and Irredentist; The Third Discursive Period 1919-1945: Identity Fulfillment; Romania's External Projection: Status Quo and Insularity; Romania's Internal Projection: Westernism and the Modernity Project; Europe as a Partner
- The Fourth Discursive Period 1946-1989: The Invertion of Romania's Security UnderstandingThe Communists' Struggle for Legitimacy; "Otherness" in Romania's Security Understanding; Romanian Communism's Nationalism and Militarism; The Romanian Revolution: A Discourse in Itself; Conclusion; IV. Romania's Role Conception: National Strategic Documents 1990-2014; Methodology and Criteria of Analysis; 1990-1995: Romania in the Grey Area; 1996-1999: Romania in Transition; 2001-2004: Romania in NATO; 2005-2009: Romania in the EU; 2010-2014: Romania in Search of a New Paradigm; Conclusion
- v. Romania's Foreign Policy OrientationThe Europeanization of Romanian Foreign Policy Discourse; Europeanization: Delimiting the Terms and Understanding the Process; The Europeanization of Romanian Foreign and Security Discourse: From Start to Stop; The Atlanticization of Romanian Foreign Policy; In Search of a New Paradigm; Conclusion; VI. Strategic Culture and the Use of Force; Security Concerns: Unchallenged and Unchanged Perceptions; Instruments of Foreign and Security Policy: Traditional Understanding of Security and Defense