Discussion
Who introduced culture into modern security studies by developing a theory of strategic culture to interpret Soviet Nuclear doctrine ?
Answer: A
It was Jack Snyder.
In a 1977 RAND report, The Soviet Strategic Culture: Implications for Limited Nuclear Operations, Jack Snyder argued that Soviet nuclear thinking could not be understood through American game-theoretic models, because it was shaped by a distinct 'strategic culture', the beliefs, attitudes and habits of thought about strategy that Soviet leaders had absorbed from their history. He thereby introduced culture into modern security studies.
Thucydides and Machiavelli are classical writers long before nuclear doctrine, and Kenneth Waltz's neorealism deliberately left culture and domestic factors out of its explanation.
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