How Nation-States Craft National Security Strategy Documents

The need for security and the institutionalization of that security in national strategy and its associated documents is becoming a significant concern for nations in the 21st century international system.

This need requires the development of national-level strategies that are designed with objectives; the attainment of which can ensure that the conditions are necessary for security for a given actor in the international system can be met. The intent of this monograph is to explore the actual processes that nation states employ to craft their national security strategy-related documents.

The study aligned individual case studies of nation states organizing their national strategy document formulation processes. These case studies were selected based on a determination of two primary factors: