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OPERATIONALISATION OF DEFENCE DIPLOMACY
OPERATIONALISATION OF DEFENCE DIPLOMACY

Author(s): Sorin Fetic
Subject(s): Diplomatic history, Security and defense, Military policy, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: defence diplomacy; operationalisation; measurement; qualitative variables; quantitative variables;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to establish an operational definition of defence diplomacy, based on an “arbitrary convention” – after making an analysis of the methods of measuring an object, phenomenon or concept, of the existing types of variables, combined with the identification of conceptual definitions of defence diplomacy and of certain sciences with which it interacts and which play an important role in its development.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 49
  • Page Range: 44-52
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English