Veronica M. Kitchen - The Globalization of NATO: Intervention, Security and Identity

This book examines NATOs 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 attack on the territory of one ally was to be considered an attack on them all. However, Article 4 of the Treaty invites the allies to consult with each other on a less formal basis whenever their territorial integrity, political independence, or security was threatened, without the automatic commitment to a shared response. During the Cold War, the allies consulted both formally and informally on issues beyond mutual defence in debates that were, more often than not, extremely contentious. After the Cold War, these out-of-area missions became the primary focus of NATOs military missions. The allies had to debate the scope of co-operation for every mission they considered undertaking collectively. This book argues that NATOs identity has changed from a Cold War mutual defence organization to a global alliance in the course of debates over how to respond to the changing circumstances of its security environment.

This book will be of much interest to students of security studies, international organisations, contemporary history and IR in general.

Veronica M.Kitchen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Series editors: Aaron Karp, Regina Karp and Terry Teriff

Intervention, security and identity

First published 2010
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Any scholar knows that it is impossible to acknowledge everyone who has had a hand in the long and torturous process of going from the first moment of curiosity about a problem to a finished book. I can only thank a few here, and trust that the rest know who they are and what they have done. Terry Hopmann, Tom Biersteker and Catherine Kelleher at Brown University read the roughest, earliest versions of this book when it was my dissertation. I am grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for funding a postdoctoral fellowship, Brian Job and the Centre of International Relations at the University of British Columbia for hosting me during my post-doc year and again in the summer of 2009, and the University of Waterloo for making it easy for me to research and write on the tenure track. Bob Bothwell, David Haglund, Jonathan Havercroft, Dick Price, Peter Romaniuk, Karthika Sasikumar, Lynne Taylor, David Welch, and Annick Wibben have provided valuable advice, assistance, and support. Richard Nutbrown and the University of Waterloos political science department kept me supplied with teaching releases and research assistance beyond my expectations. Adem Dabovic, Bjrnar Egede-Nissen, Amanda Ferguson and Jenny Thiel (who went above and beyond) provided stellar research assistance.

Among many friends who made sure I both Got Down To It and Got Away From It, I am especially grateful to Dr. Emily Pawley for being exactly the right kind of friend at exactly the right time, and to Erika Davidson, Cheryl Khoury, Agnes Khoury and Jasmine Tehara for relief at the eleventh hour. The lives and experiences of my grandmothers, Beatrix von Bredow, Helen von Bredow and Betty Kitchen have taught me about perseverance, independence and risk taking important qualities for a scholar. My grandfathers Matthias von Bredow and John Kitchen told me the family stories which sparked my interest in transatlantic relations. They both passed away while I was working on this book, and I miss them dearly. My siblings, Melissa Kitchen and Stephen Kitchen, are the core of my tribe. Matthew Curtis provided love, patience, and constancy under sometimes difficult circumstances.