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  • From a social constructivist perspective, NATO is not just another alliance or security institution, but the institutional embodiment of the transatlantic security community, which is based on a collective identity of liberal democracies. This collective identity serves as the main explanatory factor for social constructivist research dealing with NATO’s creation, its specific institutional design and its unique culture of consultation. It also helps understand NATO’s persistence after the end of the Cold War, its enlargement and its (liberal) out-of-area operations and missions in the post-Cold War period. Constructivism has become one of the key theoretical approaches in NATO research, offering a broader view of the Alliance and accounting for empirical anomalies that competitors fail to explain. Still, constructivist research has arguably not yet reached its full potential and could offer additional insights into NATO’s past, presence and future. These lacunae are addressed in the chapter.

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Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Author(s):Tobias Bunde
Editor(s):Sebastian Mayer
Parent Title (English):Research Handbook on NATO
Publisher:Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Place of Publisher:Cheltenham
Publication year:2023
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:69
Last Page:83
DOI:https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839103391.00014
ISBN:9781839103384
Release Date:2023/11/24
Tag:Identity; Liberal-democratic values; NATO; Security cooperation; Social constructivism; Transatlantic security community
Hertie School Research:Centre for International Security
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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