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Examining the Role and Methodology of Strategic Culture
Author(s) -
Greathouse Craig B.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
risk, hazards and crisis in public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1944-4079
DOI - 10.2202/1944-4079.1020
Subject(s) - process (computing) , strategic planning , strategic thinking , field (mathematics) , work (physics) , management science , political science , sociology , knowledge management , engineering ethics , business , computer science , marketing , engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics , operating system
Strategic culture has become a concept of significant debate within security studies over the last decade. It represents an attempt to integrate cultural influences about how actors within the international system made decisions regarding the use of force. Learning more about how and why actors use force in the system is an important topic to which strategic culture may provide some answers but the process of applying it is difficult. This article examines some of the trends in the work on strategic culture including definitional and methodological and proposes some approaches which may make the concept more accessible for researchers within the field.