The Quest for a European Strategic Culture investigates whether strategic norms and beliefs held in different countries have become more similar since 1989 and

European countries work together in crisis management, conflict prevention and many other aspects of security and defence policy. Closer cooperation in this pol

This thesis sets out to examine the European strategic culture that is being carried by political elites around two themes: continuity-change and convergence-di

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 8,2, Leiden University, language: English, abstract: The essay de

The central aim of this thesis is to analyse the distinct elements of a potential Europeanstrategic culture and their representation in the rhetoric and strateg