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Reimagining NATO after Crimea: Defender of the rule-based order and truth?

Written by

Paul Beaumont
Senior Research Fellow
Julie Wilhelmsen
Research Professor
Kristian Lundby Gjerde
Senior Research Fellow

Ed.

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Summary:

Russia’s annexation of Crimea and war on Ukraine has led to upheaval in NATO’s discourse and practice. Taking a step back from the security debate, this article contends that the very process of responding to Russian aggression has led to the reimagining of NATO’s identity. While NATO tends to present change as continuity, this article’s mixed methods analysis illuminates how a trio of new and ambitious self-representations have risen to prominence within NATO’s post-Crimea discourse. NATO has anointed itself defender of the international rules-based order and purveyor of truth and facts amidst a world of disinformation, while pushing a resilience policy agenda that expands its authority into new domestic domains. Problematizing these shifts, the article warns that NATO’s new narrative ignores its own role in the problems it seeks to solve and thus risks undermining NATO efforts to rally global support for Ukraine.

Themes

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Europe

Written by

Paul Beaumont
Senior Research Fellow
Julie Wilhelmsen
Research Professor
Kristian Lundby Gjerde
Senior Research Fellow

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