This article explains the recursive tendency to develop inimical relations between the North Atlan-tic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Russia by pointing at the incompatibility of their strategic cultures—here understood as broad cognitive frameworks subsuming an actor’s self-perception, worldview, and preferred way to use force. NATO and Russia have defined their roles in world politics, decoded the other’s intentions, and undertaken certain practices on the basis of divergent socio-cognitive assumptions. Incompatible strategic cultures bring about clashing grand strategies and generate conflictual relations. The two actors think differently and therefore read and react to a same situation in divergent ways. As a product of socially-embedded dynamics, NATO-Russia enmity cannot be easily overcome - if not in the long term and via sustained interaction. After pre-senting their theoretical framework, the authors reconstruct NATO’s and Russia’s strategic cul-tures, and then discuss the Ukraine crisis as a case study.
Titolo: | Ups and Downs of NATO-Russia Relations: a Cognitivist Perspective | |
Autore/i: | Nicolò Fasola; sonia lucarelli | |
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Anno: | 2019 | |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1285/i20398573v5n2p319 | |
Abstract: | This article explains the recursive tendency to develop inimical relations between the North Atlan-tic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Russia by pointing at the incompatibility of their strategic cultures—here understood as broad cognitive frameworks subsuming an actor’s self-perception, worldview, and preferred way to use force. NATO and Russia have defined their roles in world politics, decoded the other’s intentions, and undertaken certain practices on the basis of divergent socio-cognitive assumptions. Incompatible strategic cultures bring about clashing grand strategies and generate conflictual relations. The two actors think differently and therefore read and react to a same situation in divergent ways. As a product of socially-embedded dynamics, NATO-Russia enmity cannot be easily overcome - if not in the long term and via sustained interaction. After pre-senting their theoretical framework, the authors reconstruct NATO’s and Russia’s strategic cul-tures, and then discuss the Ukraine crisis as a case study. | |
Data stato definitivo: | 2020-02-16T17:10:12Z | |
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