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“Culture as a descriptive and analytical term, is both nebulous and part of the realist world, at once frustratingly malleable and actually quite useful” (Black 2012: 43). This volume started from the assumption that an overview of national strategic cultures in Europe, despite the imperfections of the concept, would indeed yield useful results in three broad categories.

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Biehl, H., Giegerich, B., Jonas, A. (2013). Conclusion. In: Biehl, H., Giegerich, B., Jonas, A. (eds) Strategic Cultures in Europe. Schriftenreihe des Zentrums für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, vol 13. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-01168-0_30

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