Western Balkans Security Observer (Journal of Belgrade School of Security Studies)

Western Balkans Security Observer (Journal of Belgrade School of Security Studies), Year 4, No. 13, July-September 2009, Belgrade, 149 p., ISSN: 1452-6115

This issue of the Western Balkans Security Observer is addressed to strategic culture and security sector reform. As it can be noticed since the first article, a major contribution to scientific debate represents the discussion of strategic culture as an analytical tool, applied on the EU example. This perspective, disputes the notion that the EU is unfit to develop a strategic culture for cultural or structural reasons or it must change in order to facilitate the development of such a culture. The EU strategic culture is traced in the Union's history, in its power resources, its geopolitical setting and in the attitudes of its leaders. In order to make it operational, the analytical...