Kultura strategiczna USA podczas zimnej wojny i po jej zakończeniu
U.S. strategic culture during and after the Cold War

Summary/Abstract: This text raises an issue of strategic culture. It uses the example of the works of the US federal administration on the official processing of the challenges connected with Cold War rivalry in the period of containment of Soviet influence, as well as under the new challenge from Putin’s Russia. It defines the term “strategic culture”, and provides theoretical orderings locating it among the important factors shaping the decision making of federal bodies on deterrence and key national security challenges. It also discusses institutional arrangements for conducting policies towards new challenges, such as weapons of mass destruction and terrorism, which require a change of approach from the social elite, followed by the adoption of modified procedural patterns in domestic and international relations.

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