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- Title: Strategic Culture: Comparing Progress in the European Union and the Southern African Development Community (Company Overview)
- Author : Strategic Review for Southern Africa
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 245 KB
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ABSTRACT A parallel development to the dominant state-centered paradigm of strategic culture is the salience of regional organisations such as the European Union and the Southern African Development Community. After the Cold War the European Union and the Southern African Development Community emerged as regional actors dedicated to development and security, but both were soon confronted by the prioritisation of security matters. After 2000 both regions responded to security interests through regional arrangements that recognised the indispensability of the military instrument--although in different roles. However, despite the higher profile of this strategic option, both the European Union and the Southern African Development Community lack a strategic culture that guides the use of their armed forces as a policy instrument. Subsequently, the need exists to reconcile this strategic option with a regional strategic culture--a matter characterised by gradual progress in the European Union, but apparently absent in the Southern African Development Community.