Strategic Culture Explaining Theoretical Puzzles and Policy Continuities

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Synopsis

Strategic Culture(s) in Latin America elucidates why many state-actors in the Global South exhibit a remarkable degree of policy continuity in their external behavior despite structural incentives for change.
This book contends that the theoretical notion of strategic culture is instructive to explain such a puzzle. It extends the application of strategic culture beyond the policy of nuclear deterrence among great powers into other equally strategic areas of policy, such as diplomacy, political economy, regional international institutions, legal norms, politico-military institutions, and different security agendas beyond war and peace, for example, the illicit drug-trade and peacekeeping missions. The overall contribution of this book is three-fold: first, it rescues, updates, and expands the original conceptual and theoretical dimensions of strategic culture. Second, it extrapolates further theoretical implications of the concept through its application to five policy domains in Latin America beyond the original application of the strategic culture perspective to nuclear weapons strategy among great powers in the 1970s. Third, it draws together the theoretical and policy implications of the strategic cultures in Latin America and identifies possible applications for other peripheral, non-great power policy areas and issues in the Global South.
This book will be of interest to academics, graduate and undergraduate students, policy analysts, and practitioners of Latin American Studies, International Relations Theory and Security Studies.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
Author:
Félix E. Martín, Nicolás Terradas, Diego Zambrano
ISBN:
9781003801863
Related ISBNs:
9781003142508, 9780367692155, 9780367696061
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2023-11-17
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2023
Copyright by:
selection and editorial matter, Félix E. Martín, Nicolás Terradas and Diego Zambrano 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Politics and Government