Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- PART I The Grammar of Security: Cultural Assumptions, Preferences, and Policies -- 2 The Framework of Analysis: Security, Grand Strategy, and Culture -- 3 Is Talk Really Cheap? Language as an Interface between Culture and Behavior -- 4 Analyzing Security Discourses and Practices: A Typology -- PART II The Discourse and Practice of the ESDP: Between Auto-Communication and Power Projection -- 5 Contextualizing the Discourse on the European Security and Defence Policy or the Elements of the Activity-Performativity-Connectivity Dynamics -- 6 "A Secure Europe in a Better World": Syntax and Semantics of the ESDP -- 7 Grand Strategy in Practice: Testing Coherence between Discourse and Action -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.