NATO's security discourse after the Cold War : representing the West / Andreas Behnke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Behnke, Andreas, author.

Series:

New International Relations

New international relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Security, International.

World politics--1989-.

World politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book analyses the way in which the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) defines the West after the end of the Cold War and the demise of its constitutive 'Other', the Soviet Union.The book offers a theoretical critique of liberal approaches to security, and focuses on NATO's construction of four geo-cultural spaces that are the sites of particular dangers or threats, which cause these spaces to be defined as the 'enemy' of the West. While this forges a collective Western identity, effectively achieved in the 1990s, the book also includes an analysis of NATO's involve

Contents:

Introduction

From space to spatialization

Identity, security, and the inescapability of the political

Reading\writing NATO

Mapping the post-Cold War order: from the London declaration to the strategic concept

The "home-coming": NATO and the Central and Eastern European states

From pangolin to partner: the re-construction of Russia

Arc of tension and crisis: the South and the Mediterranean

"Out of area or out of business": Bosnia and the deconstruction of NATO

NATO unlimited : the Washington summit 1999

Deconstructing the West: NATO in the age of terrorism

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-58715-7

9786613899606

0-203-10932-5

1-136-26921-5

9780203109328

OCLC:

809539032