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9. The Individualisation of Security Within NATO

Author : Sarah da Mota

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To what extent has NATO as a security community been influenced by the Individualisation of Security as another stage of the civilising process? As a normative transformation of international security, the Individualisation of Security is very significant for the Alliance, for it complements and serves the purpose of its institutional reinvention after the Cold War. Fundamentally, the Individualisation of Security also serves the sustainability of NATO’s civilisational referent. The role of the individual referent of security is assessed in NATO’s military operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Afghanistan, by focusing on particular aspects of each mission: the referent object of security, the justification advanced for the intervention, their formal mandate, their objectives, their normative principles, their self-declared results, always in the light of NATO’s civilisational narrative.

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Title: The Individualisation of Security Within NATO
Author: Sarah da Mota
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: NATO, Civilisation and Individuals
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-74408-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-74409-4

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74409-4_9