Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Identity, security and political talk; 2 The Suez crisis: Establishing the out-of-area norm; 3 The Cold War community and the Vietnam war; 4 Changing notions of security and the intervention in Bosnia; 5 September 11 and the dispute over Iraq; 6 The post 9/11 alliance and changing notions of mutual defence in Afghanistan; Conclusion: A new strategic concept and new norms?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Examines NATO's transition from a Cold War mutual defence organization into a global alliance, and puts the crisis over the Afghanistan mission in the context of long-standing debates over out-of-area interventions
