Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Part I. Strategic Culture Today

1. Introduction
Jeannie L. Johnson, Kerry M. Kartchner, Jeffrey A. Larsen

2. What Good Is Strategic Culture?
David G. Haglund

3. Strategic Culture: From Clausewitz to Constructivism
Jeffrey S. Lantis

Part II. Strategic Culture in Action: Explaining WMD Decision Making

4. Strategic Culture and WMD Decision Making
Kerry M. Kartchner

5. U. S. Strategic and Organizational Subcultures
Thomas G. Mahnken

6. Russian Strategic Culture in Flux: Back to the Future?
Fritz W. Ermarth

7. Continuity and Change in Israel’s Strategic Culture
Gregory F. Giles

8. India’s Strategic Culture and the Origins of Omniscient Paternalism
Rodney W. Jones

9. Iranian Strategic Culture and Its Persian Origins
Willis Stanley

10. The Making of Syria’s Strategic Culture
Murhaf Jouejati

11. A Dragon on Defense: Explaining China’s Strategic Culture
Huiyun Feng

12. North Korea and the Political Uses of Strategic Culture
Joseph S. Bermudez

13. Does Al Qaeda Have a Strategic Culture?
Jerry Mark Long

Part III. The Way Ahead

14. Out of the Wilderness: Prime Time for Strategic Culture
Colin S. Gray

15. Conclusion: Toward a Standard Methodological Approach
Jeannie L. Johnson

Avainsanat: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Comparative Politics, Military and Defence Studies