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

• Main Author: da Mota, Sarah (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Security Challenges
• Subjects: Security, International.; International relations.; International organization.; International Security Studies.; International Relations Theory.; International Organization.

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...

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.