1st Edition
The Globalization of NATO Intervention, Security and Identity
By Veronica M. Kitchen
Copyright 2010
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines NATO’s transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the recent crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions.
Originally, NATO bound the western allies together for the purposes of mutual defence as defined by Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which declared that an... Read more
Introduction 1. Identity, Security, and Political Talk 2. The Suez Crisis: Establishing the Out-of-Area Norm 3. The Cold War Community and the Vietnam War 4. Changing Notions of Security and the Intervention in Bosnia 5. September 11th and the Dispute over Iraq 6. The Post-9/11 Alliance and Changing Notions of Mutual Defence in Afghanistan Conclusion: A New Strategic Concept and New Norms?
Biography
Veronica M. Kitchen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
