The Ukraine Crisis and the Lack of a Strategic Culture in Europe

David cameron was absent from the munich security conference in february, as most other political leaders from europe and the us were present. It is strange, indeed, that cameron let the german french duo deal with president a balmer over the ukraine crisis without british participation. Germany did not take the lead when putin started to act on ukraine. In germany we immediately see the discrepancy between its political role as the leader vizavi russia in europe and its almost pacifist culture. Can germany put sufficient weight behind its diplomacy, theconomic power alone?