NATO, Civilisation and Individuals The Unconscious Dimension of International Security /

This book critically engages with NATO's two main referent objects of security: civilisation and individuals. By rethinking the seemingly natural assumption of these two referent objects, it suggests the epistemological importance of an unconscious dimension to understand meaning formation and...

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Main Author: da Mota, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:New Security Challenges
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ISBN:9783319744094
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Chapter 1/Introduction. Seeking alternative connections between civilisation and security
  • 2. Chapter 2. IR's disciplinary connections with Western civilisation
  • 3. Chapter 3. Individualising civilisation: the Civilised Subject of Security
  • 4. Chapter 4. Standards of Civilisation: architecting security, order, and hierarchy
  • 5. Chapter 5. NATO's deep origins (1939-1949): unbreaking the civilised habitus?
  • 6. Chapter 6. NATO's Cold War evolution: civilisation from referent object to standard
  • 7. Chapter 7. Post-Cold War NATO: new ways and reasons for coexistence
  • 8. Chapter 8. The Individualisation of Security: a new architecture for international security
  • 9. Chapter 9. The Individualisation of Security within NATO
  • 10. Chapter 10. Conclusion.