「ヨーロッパの危険地帯」、中・東欧とバルカンの「戦略文化」

戦争、安全保障、「民主化」とEU・NATOの拡大

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This article investigates the “Strategic Culture” of Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans, as the “European Crisis Area”.
The most relevant to the “Strategic Culture” is Jack L. Snyder's book The Soviet Strategic Culture, which investigates the strategic research of the enemy country, the Soviet Socialist System in the 1970s. “Strategic Culture” generally investigates not only politics and security, but also culture, history and social environment because the strategy, ideology and value are completely related to these elements when the government decides its policies. It was already shown during the Second World War, in Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. The Strategic Culture investigates enemy countries generally, so during the war and historically the research concentrated on the enemies' regions and groups, and tried to understand their behavior.
Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans are unique regions, which landed between Big Powers like Russia and Germany geopolitically, that is why they collaborated with their enemy's enemy for defending their homeland, combining hard Security Policy and cultural and social Soft Power policy. It was the strategic wisdom of small countries that was invaded and annexed during the Modernization era.
This area is called the “European Crisis Area”, as it was involved in the Balkan Wars, Russo-Turkish War, WWI, WWII, Cold War and Post-Cold War or Iraq War, and it was the representative region in the Balkan Conflict, the World Wars, the Kosovo Conflict and the Bombing of Kosovo. In the Iraq War in the 21st century, they aggressively joined President Bush (Jr.) 's War, so they were called “pro-American area”.
Here the author investigates the “European Crisis Area”, “Lands between Big Powers”, why they have different cultures and traditions from Western Europe, and why they have such a strong will for “Freedom and Liberty”, because they were controlled in all historical times. They did not bend to the Big Powers, and access to the US for their own security policy against Russia. They deployed the MD for NATO, and they never obeyed the European Big Powers, even though they exist in Europe... The author shows and investigates such a tough and strong self-assertion of Central Europe and the Balkans, which combines with war, security, and democratization.
The Contents are:
1. Historical Background—“European Crisis Area” and Three Wars, 2. The “Strategic Culture” of the “European Crisis Area”, 3. NATO Enlargement and the Bombing of Kosovo, 4. September 11 to the Afghan/Iraq War, 5. MD deployment against Russia, 6. New Situation after 2010, Conclusion and Foresight.