Differing concepts of total defence in small states: comparing the cases of New Zealand and Poland

• Authors: Terry Johanson

Abstracts

EN

This article proposes that a small state’s approach to total defence will be strong influenced by the nature of its strategic environment. It compares the defence approaches of Poland and New Zealand to identify whether the different contexts of their strategic environments necessitate divergent strategies for defending their state. The theory of population ecology of organisations will be used to frame the different options available to small states in their strategic environments and applied to the cases in order to explain their different approaches to total defence.

Keywords

PL

total defence; New Zealand Defence Assessment; defence policy

• Publisher: Krakowska Akademia im. Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego
• Journal: Bezpieczeństwo. Teoria i Praktyka
• Year: 2022
• Volume: XLVIII
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 199-210

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Terry Johanson

• Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University, New Zealand

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Identifiers

DOI

10.48269/2451-0718-btip-2022-3-014

Biblioteka Nauki

2165707