Hegemony and strategic culture: American power projection and alliance defence politics

In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 133-148

Abstract

The whole field of Strategic Studies bears the crippling legacy of having abstracted question of war and peace from their embeddedness in historically produced relations of social movements, political economy and culture. The very objects of strategic analysis—states and their mutual security alliances—are presumed to have been there from the start. And the principles underpinning their interactions are likewise construed as consistent with the rules governing a state system first made evident in Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War.