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This chapter offers a critical rethinking of NATO at a time of intensified geopolitical contestation and internal fragility. It challenges dominant portrayals of NATO as a coherent and values-driven defense alliance by tracing the contradictions that underpin its evolving strategic identity. Drawing on feminist and critical security scholarship, it explores how NATO is constituted through competing discourses, everyday practices, and contested norms, particularly in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the resurgence of authoritarian populism within member states, and the disruptive return of a second term Trump administration. Through the lens of ‘critical friendship’, it engages NATO not as a fixed entity but as a site of ongoing negotiation, tension, and transformation. It foregrounds the significance of gender, power, and militarism in shaping NATO’s policies, self-narratives, and global engagements, and argues for the necessity of reflexive, critical scholarship to interrogate what is at stake when the Alliance invokes security, resilience, and unity in a fractured world.
Author(s): Jude S-C, Wright KAM
Editor(s): Jude S-C; Wright KAM
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: In Press
Book Title: Critical Perspectives on NATO: Feminist Insights
Year: 2026
Acceptance date: 04/09/2025
Series Title: Feminist Reimagining of International Studies
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Place Published: Bristol
Notes: 9781529248340 ebook ISBN
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781529248326
