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Security culture Britain’s security culture

Security culture Britain’s security culture. Why studying security culture of the MSs?. MSs motivated by instrumental as well as social rationality when they move towards a common policy in security and defence The notion of ‘security culture’ as entailing these aspects of MSs motivations

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Security culture Britain’s security culture

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  1. Security cultureBritain’s security culture

  2. Why studying security culture of the MSs? • MSs motivated by instrumental as well as social rationality when they move towards a common policy in security and defence The notion of ‘security culture’ as entailing these aspects of MSs motivations • Can we talk about strategic cultural convergence; strategic differences in Europe: • Large and small MSs • Europeanists and Atlanticists • Allies and neutrals • Professional power projection tradition and conscript-based territorial defence tradition • Weapons-systems providers and weapons-systems consumers • Nuclear and non-nuclear states • Preference for hard power instruments and preference for civilian power instruments

  3. The notion of security culture • Strategic culture and security culture • Security culture: • security identity (role structures, interests, interpretations of the security environment) • Security capability: military power and institutional capabilities • Factors that determine security culture: historical experiences, historical narratives, neighbours, national borders, occupation and defeat, etc. • Theoretical traditions in security culture explanations /Johnson, 1995/ • The first generation, early 1980s: use of macro environmental variables- history, geography, political culture • The second generation, mid-1980s: strategic culture as a tool of political hegemony in the realm of strategic decision-making • The third generation, 1990s: ideational independent variables to explain particular strategic decisions

  4. Britain’s security cultureHistorical experiences • World war II and post WW II experiences; domestic factors, external factors and global developments • Cold war experiences: domestic developments, armed forces, standing in the world • Post cold war experiences: Russia, America, global trends

  5. Britain’s security cultureIdentity and capabilities • An allied state • The ‘special relationship’/ imbalanced relationship • Large state, a former colonial power • A nuclear state though does not have an independent nuclear deterrent • Professional expeditionary army • Weapons systems providers

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