Концепт стратешке културе у студијама безбедности

Abstract

The concept of strategic culture emerged in the late 1980s. The author who founded this concept in security studies, Jack Snyder, used the concept of strategic culture for interpretation of Soviet nuclear doctrine in the Cold War period. The conceptualization of strategic culture has played a dominant role in two theoretical approaches to the study of security, realism and social constructivism. The aim of this paper is to show the way of conceptualization of strategic culture in security studies, more precisely, within the realism and social constructivism schools. The realization of this goal implies the attempt to present the most relevant findings of the authors who have discussed the concept of strategic culture in their works. The conceptualisation view is divided into three generations of authors, while the works of the first and third generation authors, Colin Gray and Alistair Johnston, represent the "core" of methodological disputes regarding the concept of strategic culture. The essence of the concept of strategic culture is that national culture is a foundation that embodies and builds a unique approach to foreign policy, based on a culturally understanding of war and the use of force.