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The Importance of a Common Strategic Culture for CSDP

The Importance of a Common Strategic Culture for CSDP. CONTENTS. What is strategic culture ? Strategic cultures within the EU A common strategic culture for the EU. What is strategic culture ?. - No generally accepted definition

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The Importance of a Common Strategic Culture for CSDP

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  1. TheImportance of a Common Strategic Culture forCSDP

  2. CONTENTS • What is strategicculture? • Strategic cultureswithinthe EU • A commonstrategiccultureforthe EU

  3. What is strategicculture? • -No generallyaccepteddefinition • -First used in a study of SovietnuclearstrategybyJack • Snyderin 1977 • -ColinGray: “a shorthandexpressiontodenotethe • emotionalandattitudinalenvironmentwithinwhichthe • defencecommunityoperates”.

  4. -Paul CornishandGeoffreyEdwards: “institutional • confidenceandprocessestomanageanddeploymilitary • forces as part of theacceptedrange of legitimateand • effectivepolicyinstrument.” • -ChristophMeyer: “Comprising the socially transmitted • identity derived norms, ideas, and patterns of behavior • […] which helps to shape a ranked set of options for a • communitiespursuit of security and defense goals.”

  5. -Kerry Longhurst: a strategic culture is “a distinctive bodyof beliefs, attitudes, and practices regarding use of force…” -Bruno Colson: strategic culture is “the set of attitudes and beliefs professed within the military concerning the political aims of war, as well as the most effective strategic and operational methods for achieving them.”

  6. Sixfactors of a strategicculture: -Thegeopoliticalsettings -Militaryhistory -International relationships -Politicalcultureandideology -Thenature of civil-militaryrelations -Militarytechnology

  7. Strategic Cultureswithinthe EU • -StephenPeter Rosen: “frame […] choices about • international military behavior, particularly those • concerning decisions to go to war […] and levels of • wartimecasualties that would be acceptable.” • -Lack of integrationon security and defence policy Iraqcrisis Mali crisis Libya crisis

  8. -Different member states have different predominant  • strategic cultures: • 1.Atlanticist, Europeanist, neutraltendencies • 2.Allied/neutral, professionalpowerprojection/ • conscript-basedterritorialdefence, • nuclear/non-nuclear, military/civilianinstruments, • large/smallstates, weaponproviders/consumers • 3. Smaller and non-aligned states/former colonial powers

  9. Strategicculture reflect the security environment of the 20th century:

  10. Viewsabout the role of the armed forces and the use of military force vary from country to country: -in self defence: e.g.Germany,Italy -inorder to protect national interests or international peace and order: e.g. France, UK, Poland -only for UN peacekeeping and peacemaking operations:e.g.Austria, Ireland

  11. A commonstrategiccultureforthe EU • Can it be assumedthatallmembercountries, • Regardless of theirparticularhistricalexperience, • sharethesamestrategicperspectives?

  12. -Common values and principles • -European approach to the use of force • -European way of crisis management • -Increasing institutionalization of the CSDP • -Adoption of theEuropean Security Strategy

  13. European strategic culture will be based on: -Enlargedvision of security -Comprehensiveandinternationallylegitimateapproach tothreats -Theuse of force as a lastresort -Comprehensiveapproachtocrisismanagement -Effectivemultilateralism

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