International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy

International Security in Practice......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 11
Figures and tables......Page 12
Preface......Page 13
Abbreviations......Page 16
1 Introduction......Page 19
Security community development and the NATO–Russia puzzle......Page 21
Plan of the book......Page 24
Part I Restoring the practical logic of peace......Page 27
2 The logic of practicality: a theory of practice of security communities......Page 29
The representational bias......Page 32
Practice turns......Page 40
Practical knowledge......Page 45
Habitus, field and practical sense......Page 49
Outline of a theory of practice of security communities......Page 56
Self-evident diplomacy......Page 58
Hysteresis, (dis)positions and order in security communities......Page 62
Conclusion......Page 68
3 A “sobjective” methodology for the study of practicality......Page 70
The constructivist style of reasoning......Page 72
An inductive methodology......Page 77
An interpretive methodology......Page 79
A historical methodology......Page 80
The methodical practice of sobjectivism......Page 83
Recovering subjective meanings and practical logics......Page 84
Putting meanings and practices in context......Page 90
Setting meanings and practices in motion......Page 93
On validity: engaging mainstream methodology......Page 96
Case study: methodological underpinnings......Page 100
Part II The symbolic power politics of NATO–Russia diplomacy......Page 111
4 The logic of practicality at the NATO-Russia Council......Page 113
Indicator 1: the disappearance of the possibility of using force......Page 116
“Gone are the days of nuclear threats and blackmail”......Page 117
A latent mistrust......Page 122
Indicator 2: the normalization of disputes......Page 129
Of cycles and sine waves......Page 130
An elusive momentum......Page 137
Indicator 3: daily cooperation on the ground......Page 140
Doing stuff together......Page 141
Contrasting organizational cultures......Page 149
Conclusion: two masters in search of an apprentice......Page 158
5 The early steps: NATO, Russia and the double enlargement, 1992–1997......Page 166
NATO order: security from the inside out......Page 168
The junior partner: Russia’s early embrace of the new rules of the game......Page 173
The double enlargement takes off......Page 179
Breaking the rules: Russian interpretations of the double enlargement......Page 186
Hysteresis: NATO and the Russian “Great Power”......Page 192
Russia’s Great Power habitus......Page 195
Mind the gap? Institutionalizing NATO–Russia ties......Page 200
Conclusion: a stillborn security community?......Page 209
6 The fallout: NATO and Russia from Kosovo to Georgia, 1998–2008......Page 212
Hitting rock bottom: the Kosovo crisis......Page 213
Worlds apart: NATO–Russia diplomatic brinkmanship over Kosovo......Page 214
Tilting at windmills: the causes and consequences of hysteresis......Page 221
Welcome to the twenty-first century: September 11, 2001 and its aftermath......Page 226
NATO–Russia honeymoon, take two......Page 227
NATO goes global......Page 233
NATO–Russia diplomacy today: déjà vu all over again?......Page 239
Conclusion: drawing a lesson......Page 245
The incisiveness of the theory of practice of security communities......Page 249
Shto Delat’?: the practice of NATO–Russia diplomacy today......Page 255
Practice theory and IR theories......Page 259
Bibliography......Page 269
Index......Page 293