'What's the use of It?': Danish strategic culture and the utility of armed force

Cooperation and Conflict

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-89

  Rasmussen, Mikkel Vedby ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cosmopolitanism; Danish defence policy; Defencism; Globalization; Scandinavia; Strategic culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144509664     PISSN: 00108367     EISSN: 14603691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010836705049735     Document Type: Review

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