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NATO and the collective securitisation of COVID-19

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This article seeks to analyse NATO’s role as a security actor during the COVID-19 pandemic by studying how the organisation paved the securitising discourse constructing the COVID-19 pandemic as an existential threat between March and May 2020. We correspondingly apply collective securitisation theory in conjunction with discourse analysis of a selection of NATO statements. This enabled observations of an attempt to enlarge nato’s role in the International System, comprising matters beyond high politics and culminating in actions including the coordination of rescue missions for civilians and the usage of scientific means to aid in responding to the pandemic.

Source: Scientific Repository of Open Access of Portugal (RCAAP)

DOI: 10.31447/38061

Authors: Pereira, Ricardo, Semblano, Laura

Language: English

Topic: Global Security and Public Health

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W6964854932

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