The Provision of Security in an Age of Austerity: The Transformation of NATO, the Production of Trans-scalar Spaces of Intervention, and the Future of the West

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dc.contributor.advisorLatham, Robert E.
dc.creatorMorgan, Matthew Charles-Albert
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-16T19:20:56Z
dc.date.available2015-12-16T19:20:56Z
dc.date.copyright2015-07-03
dc.date.issued2015-12-16
dc.date.updated2015-12-16T19:20:56Z
dc.degree.disciplinePolitical Science
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation traces how NATO has evolved from a defensive alliance concerned with the collective defense of its members to a global security nexus engaged in preemptive crisis management interventions. In reaction to what I see as the limitations of traditional methodological approaches in the discipline of International Relations I develop an alternative research program that places the production of space and trans-scalar interactions at the heart of my analysis. I discuss how NATO reacted to the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a new geoeconomic order as neoliberalism spread across the planet and the United States became a global hegemon. Particular attention is paid to the effect of the 2007 Global Financial Crisis upon NATO. The new era of austerity, which followed, accelerated and deepened changes that had begun within NATO starting in the 1990s. NATO now sought to form partnerships with countries across the world and adopted a far broader understanding of security that saw it intervening far from its traditional European area of operations. The impact of austerity is also readily apparent in the two interventions NATO has carried out thus far in the 21st century in Afghanistan and Libya. NATO’s sustained peacekeeping operation in Afghanistan contrasts sharply with its aerial assault on Libya in 2011. I posit that the intervention in Libya can best be understood as a trans-scalar space of intervention, a concept I develop to analyze how and why NATO became embroiled in the country. I conclude the dissertation by examining Russia’s recent actions in Ukraine and hypothesize that they will lead to a renewed focus on collective defense within NATO.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/30681
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectInternational relations
dc.subjectPolitical Science
dc.subject.keywordsInternational Relations
dc.subject.keywordsNATO
dc.subject.keywordssecurity
dc.subject.keywordsLibya
dc.subject.keywordsAfghanistan
dc.subject.keywordsGeopolitics. International Political Economy
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical Science
dc.subject.keywords2007 Global Financial Crisis
dc.subject.keywordsAusterity
dc.subject.keywordsGeography
dc.subject.keywordsGreat Recession
dc.subject.keywordsUnited States
dc.subject.keywordsEurope
dc.subject.keywordsDefense
dc.subject.keywordsMilitary
dc.subject.keywordsCollective Defense
dc.subject.keywordsRisk
dc.subject.keywordsCrisis Management
dc.subject.keywordsScale
dc.titleThe Provision of Security in an Age of Austerity: The Transformation of NATO, the Production of Trans-scalar Spaces of Intervention, and the Future of the West
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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