European Security Policy and Strategic Culture - 9781138944305

Taylor & Francis

European Security Policy and Strategic CultureAuthor(s): Peter Schmidt, Benjamin Zyla\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138944305, 978-1138944305\nSynopsis\nWith the Lisbon Treaty in place and the European Union increasingly involved in international crisis management and stabilization operations in places near and far, this volume revisits the trajectory of a European strategic culture. Specifically, it studies the usefulness of its application in a variety of circumstances, including the EUs operations in Africa and the Balkans as well as joint operations with NATO and the United Nations.\n\nThe contributors find that strategic culture is a useful tool to explain and understand the EU's civilian and military operations, not in the sense of a cause, but as a European normative framework of preferences and constraints. Accordingly, classical notions of strategic culture in the field of international security must.