Nato's Security Discourse After the Cold War: Representing the West

ISBN-13: 9781138811768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 248 str.

Andreas Behnke

Opis

This text provides 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.

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.