Strategic Culture, Domestic Politics, and Foreign Policy: Finland’s Decision to Refrain from Operation Unified Protector

Using strategic culture to understand participation in expeditionary operations: Australia, Poland, and the coalition against the Islamic State

“…These elements are often used to understand participation in expeditionary operations, as opposed to other potential elements of strategic culture such as civil-military relations. What is novel here is the combination of the five elements (for similar approaches, see Doeser, 2016aDoeser, , 2017. The first is the state's dominant threat perception: which threat(s) have been perceived as most dangerous since the Cold War ended.…”

“…Two scholars have thus far investigated the patterns of contributions to the anti-ISIS coalition: While Haesebrouck (2016) concludes that the willingness to participate in air strikes was the result of interplay between alliance politics, threat perception, and domestic constraints, Saideman (2016) argues that the lessons of Afghanistan in combination with being victim of ISIS attacks provide the most important factors. A factor not considered by these integrated models, but which has gained increasing scholarly attention in recent studies of expeditionary operations is strategic culture (Becker, 2017;Biehl, Giegerich, & Jonas, 2013;Britz, 2016;Doeser, 2016aDoeser, , 2017Mirow, 2016;O'Connor & Vucetic, 2010). In contrast with most previous research on burden sharing, which is quantitative in nature, based on large-N approaches, this article examines burden sharing based on a qualitative research design.…”