October 2023
Intermediate to advanced
570 pages
24h 55m
English
If war is the continuation of policy with other means,1 a country’s political culture should shape its strategic culture; few studies, however, have systematically explored the potential nexus between the two. This chapter attempts to do so, surveying the modern polities influenced by the Middle East’s ancient Arab-Islamic, Persian-Iranian, and Hebrew-Judaic civilizations. It also seeks to identify elements of continuity and change over the longue durée in these political and strategic cultures, and to consider how geopolitics and cross-cultural interactions have affected them.
National cultures are the beliefs, ...
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