NATO's Security Discourse after the Cold War : Representing the West

ISBN-13: 9780415584531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 248 str.

Andreas Behnke;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

This book provides is a critical investigation into the discursive processes through which the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) reproduced a geopolitical order after the end of the Cold War and the demise of its constitutive enemy, the Soviet Union. Offering ontological as well as the epistemological perspective, this book explains what new security relevant identities and spaces were defined in NATO's discourse, as well as from what epistemic vantage point this new security political order was mapped and inscribed. Contributing to theoretical development within Critical Security Studies, Behnke draws on a variety of approaches to provide an analytical framework that draws out the political as well as philosophical problems associated with NATO's particular rendition of security and identity. The book will be of great interest to students and researchers of International Relations, Critical Security Studies and International Organizations.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. From Space to Spatialization  2. Identity, Security, and the Inescapability of the Political  3. Reading\Writing NATO  4. Mapping the Post-Cold War Order: From the London Declaration to the Strategic Concept  5. The ‘Home-Coming’: NATO and the Central and Eastern European States  6. From ‘Pangolin’ to ‘Partner: The Re-Construction of Russia 7. ‘Arc of Tension and Crisis’: The South and the Mediterranean  8. ‘Out of Area or Out of Business’: Bosnia and the Deconstruction of NATO  9. NATO Unlimited : The Washington Summit 1999  10. Deconstructing the West: NATO in the Age of Terrorism  11. Conclusion

O autorze

Andreas Behnke is a lecturer at the University of Reading, UK.