international security in practice the politics of nato russia diplomacy

Very good. No dust jacket issued xv, [1], 282, [14] pages. Abbreviations. Footnotes. Figures. Tables. Bibliography. Index. Decorative front cover. This is one of the Cambridge Studies in International Relations. This work was the winner of the 2011 Prize in International Relations awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association for "the best book published in 2009 or 2010"; and recipient of a Honorable Mention for the 2011 Lepgold Prize awarded by Georgetown University for "exceptional contributions to the study of international relations." Vincent Pouliot (Ph.D. University of Toronto, 2008) is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Political Science at Mc Gill University. He is also the Director of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS) and a Research Fellow at CERI-Sciences. Pouliot's research interests include the political sociology of international organizations, the politics of multilateral diplomacy, and the global governance of international security. He is the co-editor of International Practices (with Emanuel Adler) and Diplomacy: The Making of World Politics (with Ole Jacob Sending and Iver B. Neumann). How do once bitter enemies move beyond entrenched rivalry at the diplomatic level? In one of the first attempts to apply practice theory to the study of International Relations, Vincent Pouliot builds on Pierre Bourdieu's sociology to devise a theory of practice of security communities and applies it to post-Cold War security relations between NATO and Russia. Based on dozens of interviews and a thorough analysis of recent history, Pouliot demonstrates that diplomacy has become a normal, though not a self-evident, practice between the two former enemies. He argues that this limited pacification is due to the intense symbolic power struggles that have plagued the relationship ever since NATO began its process of enlargement at the geographical and functional levels. So long as Russia and NATO do

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