12 Russian Strategic Culture A Critical Survey of the Literature
Old habits die hard. This saying captures well why strategic culture matters. Strategic culture refers to security policy habits of mind, notably on the level of decisionmakers, and to habitual behavior.1 Within the discipline of international relations, strategic culture is often treated as part of the constructivist turn as it is an approach that challenges neorealism.2 But in reality, the study of strategic culture is a child of Cold War Sovietology, more specifically the pioneering work on the so-called Operational Code of the Soviet Politburo by the eminent Russian-born sociologist Nathan C. Leites.3 In other words, the field is rooted ...
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