CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Bhattacharya, Ushmayo |
|---|---|
| Title | Culture Shock: Private Military Companies and their Impact on Strategic Culture |
| Summary | The Cold War brought with it several new strands of scholarship within the broader field of Strategic studies, and one such important direction of research was that of using cultural factors to analyze the reasoning behind the strategic decisions taken by the actors within a security community. This was the beginning of the modern connotation of the concept of Strategic Culture. This article aims to show how, spanning a timespan of nearly three decades, strategic studies scholarship has stagnated into a debate between two opposing factions, what Alastair Johnston calls the First and Third Generation. It then attempts to draw attention to another divergent direction of enquiry within the field as suggested by the erstwhile sidelined scholars of the Second Generation of Strategic Culture scholarship, problematizing the taken for granted status that states have enjoyed within strategic culture analyses. Other actors have to be given agency in cultural analyses, acknowledging the roles different actors play within a security community to consciously produce culture. This article contends and then attempts to show how one such actor that needs to be given more attention is the Private Military Company (PMC), given their increasingly important role in the formulation of the strategic behavior of a particular security community in modern times. |
| Supervisor | Roe, Paul |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/bhattacharya_ushmayo.pdf |
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