Strategic Cultures in Europe pp 181-191 | Cite as
Ireland
Abstract
Ireland is a neutral country, or more precisely a ‘militarily neutral’ country. This means Ireland is not a member of any military alliance such as NATO. It is also a fortunate country geo-graphically. Because of its peripheral location in the Atlantic Ocean on the Western edges of Europe, it faces no direct external military threat, with American nuclear missiles on one flank and British ones on the other. As a result, Ireland has never seriously invested in its territorial defence. In addition, the domestic threat from terrorism (both extreme nationalist and unionist) has greatly diminished since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland in 1998.
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