Theorising NATO
Scholarship on NATO is often preoccupied with key episodes in the development of the organisation and so, for the most part, has remained inattentive to theory.
This book addresses that gap in the literature. It provides a comprehensive analysis of NATO through a range of theoretical perspectives that includes realism, liberalism and constructivism, and lesser-known approaches centred on learning, public goods, securitisation and risk. Focusing on NATOs postCold War development, it considers the conceptualisation, purpose and future of the Alliance.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international organisation, international relations, security and European politics.
Mark Webber is Professor of International Politics and Head of the School of Government and Society at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Adrian Hyde-Price is Professor of Political Science at Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Theorising NATO
New perspectives on the Atlantic alliance
Edited by Mark Webber and Adrian Hyde-Price
First published 2016
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Contents
MARK WEBBER
ADRIAN HYDE-PRICE
ADRIAN HYDE-PRICE
JAMES SPERLING
FRANK SCHIMMELFENNIG
BENJAMIN POHL
TRINE FLOCKHART
GABI SCHLAG
MICHAEL JOHN WILLIAMS
JENS RINGSMOSE
JRG NOLL AND SEBASTIAAN RIETJENS
Trine Flockhart is Professor of International Relations at the University of Kent. She was previously Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, D.C. Her research focuses on liberal international order, transatlantic relations, European security (especially the EU and NATO) and explaining processes of change from a constructivist perspective. Her articles have appeared in journals such as International Relations, Journal of Common Market Studies, European Security and European Journal of International Relations. Her most recent publications are (co-edited with Tim Dunne) Liberal World Orders (Oxford University Press, 2013) and the Transatlantic Academy Report Liberal Order in a Post-Western World.
Adrian Hyde-Price is Professor of Political Science at Gothenburg University, Sweden, and the European editor of European Journal of International Security. He has previously held chairs of international politics at the universities of Bath and Leicester, and academic posts at the universities of Birmingham, Southampton and Manchester. Among his many publications are European Security in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenge of Multipolarity (Routledge, 2007), Germany and European Order: Enlarging NATO and the EU (Manchester University Press, 2000), The International Politics of East Central Europe (Manchester University Press, 1996) and European Security Beyond the Cold War: Four Scenarios for the Year 2010 (Sage, 1991). He is the co-editor of British Foreign Policy and the Anglican Church: Christian Engagement with the Contemporary World (Ashgate, 2008) and has had articles published in a wide variety of journals, including European Security, Globalisations, International Affairs, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy and Studia Diplomatica.
Jrg Noll studied political science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (19911998). He holds a doctorate from Leiden University for his thesis on Dutch and Swedish political and military leadership in postCold War defence reforms (2005). Since 2007 he has been Associate Professor of International Conflict Studies at the Netherlands Defence Academy. He is editor of Political and Military Exit Strategies (Asser, 2015). Jrg Noll is also lieutenant colonel of the German army reserve and is currently assigned to the German Ministry of Defence as analyst (referent) at the section Strategy and Operations.
Benjamin Pohl is Senior Project Manager at Adelphi in Berlin. He obtained his PhD from Leiden University in the Netherlands and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Aberdeen in the UK. Prior to his PhD, he was a desk officer in the German Foreign Office. He is the author of EU Foreign Policy and Crisis Management Operations: Power, Purpose and Domestic Politics (Routledge, 2014) and has published in European Security, Contemporary Security Policy, Cooperation and Conflict and Global Society.
Sebastiaan Rietjens, PhD, an engineer by training, is Associate Professor at the Netherlands Defence Academy and a reserve major in the Dutch army. He is a member of the editorial boards of Armed Forces and Society and the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, as well as the editor of two volumes on civilmilitary interaction (Ashgate, 2008; Springer, forthcoming 2015), a special issue on defence logistics (International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 2013) and the Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Military Studies (Routledge, 2014).
Jens Ringsmose is Associate Professor at the Centre for War Studies, and Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark. He has published widely, including articles in International Politics, Contemporary Security Policy, European Security, Journal of Transatlantic Studies and Cooperation and Conflict; on NATO burden sharing; transatlantic cooperation and Danish security and defence policy. He has recently published two books: Frontlinjer. Med medierne og militret i krig (2014) with Charlotte Aagaard and H.-C. Mathiesen and Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War: Winning Support for Foreign Military Missions
