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The Culture of National Security:
Norms and Identity in World Politics

Peter J. Katzenstein

New York

Columbia University Press

1996

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Table of Contents

Preface

Contributors

1. Introduction: Alternative Perspectives on National Security
  Peter J. Katzenstein
2. Norms, Identity, and Culture in National Security
  Ronald L. Jepperson, Alexander Wendt, and Peter J. Katzenstein

Part I. Norms and National Security

3. Status, Norms, and the Proliferation of Conventional Weapons: An Institutional Theory Approach
  Dana P. Eyre and Mark C. Suchman
4. Norms and Deterrence: The Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Taboos
  Richard Price and Nina Tannenwald
5. Constructing Norms of Humanitarian Intervention
  Martha Finnemore
6. Culture and French Military Doctrine Before World War II
  Elizabeth Kier
7. Cultural Realism and Strategy in Maoist China
  Alastair Iain Johnston

Part II. Identity and National Security

8. Identity, Norms, and National Security: The Soviet Foreign Policy Revolution and the End of the Cold War
  Robert G. Herman
9. Norms, Identity, and National Security in Germany and Japan
  Thomas U. Berger
10. Collective Identity in a Democratic Community: The Case of NATO
  Thomas Risse-Kappen
11. Identity and Alliances in the Middle East
  Michael N. Barnett

Part III. Implications and Conclusions

12. Norms, Identity, and Their Limits: A Theoretical Reprise
  Paul Kowert and Jeffrey Legro
13. Conclusion: National Security in a Changing World
  Peter J. Katzenstein