Overview
- Critically engages with the sensitive and charged association of “NATO” with “civilisation”
- Breaks ground developing the complementary association of those two terms with “individuals”
- Offers a 'psychoanalysis' of NATO through a unique exploration of the “unconscious” dimension and the psychological substance of individuals
Part of the book series: New Security Challenges (NSECH)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
- NATO
- security
- civilisation
- human needs
- narratives
- western civilisation
- international relations
- western IR
- evolution of IR
- civilised habitus
- civilised subject of security
- standard of civilisation
- international society
- narrative of uncivility
- individuals
- identity
- perceptions of civility
- individualisation of security
About this book
The book provides a historicised and genealogical approach of the idea of civilisation that is at the core of the Alliance, in which human needs, narratives, and security arrangements are interconnected. It suggests that there is a Civilised Subject of Security at the core of modern Western security that has constantly produced civilised and secure subjects around the world, which explains NATO’s emergence around a civilisational referent. The book then proceeds by considering the Individualisation of Security after the Cold War as another stage of the civilising process, based on NATO’s military operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Afghanistan.
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Book Title: NATO, Civilisation and Individuals
Book Subtitle: The Unconscious Dimension of International Security
Authors: Sarah da Mota
Series Title: New Security Challenges
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74409-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74408-7Published: 15 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08984-9Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74409-4Published: 06 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-0329
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0337
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 241
Topics: International Security Studies, International Relations Theory, International Organization