Alexandra Gheciu
Biographic Data
| ID | 382293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Gheciu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Gheciu |
| SIGNATURE | GHECIU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8868-6515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Broken trust: Performances and performativity in transatlantic intelligence cooperation
Can broken trust be repaired? This study examines the sociopolitical processes through which trust becomes ‘repaired’, ‘rebuilt’ or ‘restored’ following incidents and crises in relations between allies. Drawing on several bodies of literature, including International Relations (IR) scholarship on security community and on practices, we develop a framework for analyzing public performances that we argue play a significant role in restoring trust a…
World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order
The contemporary radical Right is not merely a series of nationalist projects but a global phenomenon. This book shows how radical conservative thinkers have developed long-term counter-hegemonic strategies that challenge prevailing social and political orders both nationally and internationally. At the heart of this ideological project is a critique of liberal globalisation that seeks to mobilise transversal alliances against a common enemy: the…
Irreconcilable Differences? Nato's Response to Russian Aggression Against Ukraine
With Russia's full-spectrum war in Ukraine, NATO is rethinking its force posture and responding in ways that are consistent with its norms and identity as an alliance. While the war has been framed by some as a vindication of structural realism, we instead revisit constructivist arguments about security communities. This literature, which foregrounds learning and socialization processes, advanced scholarly and policy debates from NATO enlargement…
Changing scenes of security in the time of the coronavirus pandemic
Confronting the International Political Sociology of the New Right
The rise of radical right-wing leaders, parties, movements, and ideas have transformed not only domestic political landscapes but also the direction and dynamics of international relations. Yet for all their emphasis on nationalist identity, on 'America First' and 'Taking Back Control,' there is an unmistakable international dimension to contemporary nationalist, populist movements. Yet these movements are also often transnationally linked. We ar…
Remembering France's glory, securing Europe in the age of Trump
These days, when we hear the slogan ‘let's make our country great again’ we almost automatically assume the state concerned is the US, and the leader uttering the slogan is President Trump. This article invites readers to explore the discourse and practices through which another national leader is seeking to restore his country's ‘greatness’ and promote national and international security. The leader concerned is France's Emmanuel Macron. Why foc…
Nato, liberal internationalism, and the politics of imagining the Western security community
International Relations scholars often assume that NATO represents the institutional expression of a pre-existing, liberal-democratic Western security community. However, far from simply representing a pre-given community, NATO has always been involved in power-filled processes of constructing “the West.” At the heart of those processes lie practices of collective (re)imagining of the Western world, as well as the representation of internal tensi…
Security Entrepreneurs
Focusing on four East European polities—Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania—this book examines the dynamics and implications of processes of commercialization of security that have occurred following the collapse of communist regimes. These processes have been central to post-communist liberalization, and have profoundly shaped those states and their integration into European institutional structures and global economic and political circuits. …
The State–Market–Crime Nexus in the Early Days of Post-Communism
To understand contemporary practices of security provision in the former Eastern bloc, we need to start with a genealogical analysis, exploring the reconstitution of East European polities in the early days of post-communism, and analyzing the impact of those transformations on the field of security. In particular, we need to understand the peculiar dynamics and consequences of the flawed privatization processes that occurred in Eastern Europe in…
Between the Old and the New: Performing Protection in Post-Cold War Europe
Building upon the analysis of international developments in Chapter 4, Chapter 5 returns to recent developments in the national arenas of Bulgaria, Bosnia, Romania, and Serbia. The chapter examines the fluidity and complexity of the practices of performing security that have resulted from the insertion of those polities into the European field of security in combination with the persistence of some old actors, attitudes, and non-material resource…
The Oxford Handbook of International Security
Future-oriented questions are woven through the study and practice of international security. The 48 essays collected in this Handbook use such questions to provide a tour of the most innovative and exciting new areas of research as well as major developments in established lines of inquiry. The results of their efforts are: the definitive statement of the state of international security and the academic field of security studies, a comprehensive…
Commodifying security in the Balkans: Between liberal norms and illiberal practices
The Return of the Public in Global Governance
Many international relations scholars argue that private authority and private actors are playing increasingly prominent roles in global governance. This book focuses on the other side of the equation: the transformation of the public dimension of governance in the era of globalization. It analyses that transformation, advancing two major claims: first, that the public is beginning to play a more significant role in global governance, and, second…
Remembering the Roman past, building a European future
Securing distant places? Practices of protection in contemporary peace-support operations
This article explores the dynamics and implications of practices of protection enacted within the framework of the UN-sponsored International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. It examines the ways in which those practices challenge established categories in the field of security, and discusses the problems and dilemmas they generate. The article demonstrates that the role played by North Atlantic Treaty Organization – as the lead a…
Nato and the Challenge of Sustainable Peacebuilding
This piece introduces the concept of sustainable peacebuilding and briefly examines the growing involvement of NATO in peacebuilding operations. It also previews the empirical articles in this special section, explaining how they advance our understanding of the challenges faced by NATO in its peacebuilding efforts
Divided Partners: The Challenges of Nato-NGO Cooperation in Peacebuilding Operations
In this article, I examine the challenges associated with the cooperation between NATO and nongovernmental organizations in peacebuilding operations. I argue that those challenges need to be understood as part of a process of contestation and competition over the redefinition of the of the game in the changing domain of peacebuilding. This process of contestation, I suggest, can significantly undermine NATO's ability to contribute to sustainable …
The Imperative to Rebuild: Assessing the Normative Case for Postconflict Reconstruction
The past two decades have witnessed the proliferation of comprehensive international missions of peacebuilding and reconstruction, aimed not simply at bringing conflict to an end but also at preventing its recurrence. Recent missions, ranging from relatively modest involvement to highly complex international administrations, have generated a debate about the rights and duties of international actors to reconstruct postconflict states. In view of …
Securing Civilization: The EU, Nato, and the OSCE in the post-9/11 world
It has become almost a cliché in many Euro-Atlantic political and academic circles to argue that the transatlantic security community that defines itself around liberal-democratic values is facing a particularly dangerous set of challenges and must find ways to adapt to an environment marked by the growing power of unconventional enemies, particularly transnationally organized terrorist groups. But the question is, what has this meant in practice…
"Nato in the "New Europe: The Politics of International Socialization after the Cold War
000 6 Thinking about NATO from Different IR Perspectives 000 7 Conclusion 000 @toc4: Appendix: Interviews 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans
Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans. By Brian Rathbun. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. 242p. $39.95. Brian Rathbun's book is an important contribution at the interface of international relations and comparative politics, providing a fascinating, well-researched analysis of the impact of domestic politics on the formulation of foreign and defense policy in three major European sta…
Nato in the “New Europe”: The Politics of International Socialization After the Cold War
In recent years, the question of the post-Cold War NATO, particularly in relation to the former communist countries of Europe, has been at the heart of a series of international reform debates. NATO in the "New Europe" contributes to these debates by arguing that, contrary to conventional assumptions about the role of international security organizations, NATO has been systematically involved in the process of building liberal democracy in the fo…
Security Institutions as Agents of Socialization? Nato and the ‘New Europe
This article examines the dynamics and implications of practices of socialization enacted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in post–Cold War Central and Eastern Europe. With particular emphasis on the Czech Republic and Romania, I argue that NATO relied extensively on mechanisms of teaching and persuasion to project a particular set of liberal-democratic norms of security into the former Eastern bloc. Several interrelated condition…
International Norms, Power and the Politics of International Administration: The Kosovo Case
This article examines the practices of governance enacted within the framework of the international administration of Kosovo, which was established in 1999. I analyse the complex interplay between power and the liberal-democratic norms around which the UN-led mission defined its role in the province. The international administration exercised significant power in the legal/institutional reconstruction of the province, and in its systematic attemp…
Security Institutions as Agents of Socialization? Nato and the ‘New Europe
This article examines the dynamics and implications of practices of socialization enacted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in post–Cold War Central and Eastern Europe. With particular emphasis on the Czech Republic and Romania, I argue that NATO relied extensively on mechanisms of teaching and persuasion to project a particular set of liberal-democratic norms of security into the former Eastern bloc. Several interrelated condition…
Confronting the International Political Sociology of the New Right
The rise of radical right-wing leaders, parties, movements, and ideas have transformed not only domestic political landscapes but also the direction and dynamics of international relations. Yet for all their emphasis on nationalist identity, on 'America First' and 'Taking Back Control,' there is an unmistakable international dimension to contemporary nationalist, populist movements. Yet these movements are also often transnationally linked. We ar…
"Nato in the "New Europe: The Politics of International Socialization after the Cold War
000 6 Thinking about NATO from Different IR Perspectives 000 7 Conclusion 000 @toc4: Appendix: Interviews 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
Nato, liberal internationalism, and the politics of imagining the Western security community
International Relations scholars often assume that NATO represents the institutional expression of a pre-existing, liberal-democratic Western security community. However, far from simply representing a pre-given community, NATO has always been involved in power-filled processes of constructing “the West.” At the heart of those processes lie practices of collective (re)imagining of the Western world, as well as the representation of internal tensi…
The Imperative to Rebuild: Assessing the Normative Case for Postconflict Reconstruction
The past two decades have witnessed the proliferation of comprehensive international missions of peacebuilding and reconstruction, aimed not simply at bringing conflict to an end but also at preventing its recurrence. Recent missions, ranging from relatively modest involvement to highly complex international administrations, have generated a debate about the rights and duties of international actors to reconstruct postconflict states. In view of …
International Norms, Power and the Politics of International Administration: The Kosovo Case
This article examines the practices of governance enacted within the framework of the international administration of Kosovo, which was established in 1999. I analyse the complex interplay between power and the liberal-democratic norms around which the UN-led mission defined its role in the province. The international administration exercised significant power in the legal/institutional reconstruction of the province, and in its systematic attemp…
Remembering France's glory, securing Europe in the age of Trump
These days, when we hear the slogan ‘let's make our country great again’ we almost automatically assume the state concerned is the US, and the leader uttering the slogan is President Trump. This article invites readers to explore the discourse and practices through which another national leader is seeking to restore his country's ‘greatness’ and promote national and international security. The leader concerned is France's Emmanuel Macron. Why foc…
Divided Partners: The Challenges of Nato-NGO Cooperation in Peacebuilding Operations
In this article, I examine the challenges associated with the cooperation between NATO and nongovernmental organizations in peacebuilding operations. I argue that those challenges need to be understood as part of a process of contestation and competition over the redefinition of the of the game in the changing domain of peacebuilding. This process of contestation, I suggest, can significantly undermine NATO's ability to contribute to sustainable …
Irreconcilable Differences? Nato's Response to Russian Aggression Against Ukraine
With Russia's full-spectrum war in Ukraine, NATO is rethinking its force posture and responding in ways that are consistent with its norms and identity as an alliance. While the war has been framed by some as a vindication of structural realism, we instead revisit constructivist arguments about security communities. This literature, which foregrounds learning and socialization processes, advanced scholarly and policy debates from NATO enlargement…
Changing scenes of security in the time of the coronavirus pandemic
Commodifying security in the Balkans: Between liberal norms and illiberal practices
Remembering the Roman past, building a European future
Securing distant places? Practices of protection in contemporary peace-support operations
This article explores the dynamics and implications of practices of protection enacted within the framework of the UN-sponsored International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. It examines the ways in which those practices challenge established categories in the field of security, and discusses the problems and dilemmas they generate. The article demonstrates that the role played by North Atlantic Treaty Organization – as the lead a…
Nato and the Challenge of Sustainable Peacebuilding
This piece introduces the concept of sustainable peacebuilding and briefly examines the growing involvement of NATO in peacebuilding operations. It also previews the empirical articles in this special section, explaining how they advance our understanding of the challenges faced by NATO in its peacebuilding efforts
Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans
Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans. By Brian Rathbun. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. 242p. $39.95. Brian Rathbun's book is an important contribution at the interface of international relations and comparative politics, providing a fascinating, well-researched analysis of the impact of domestic politics on the formulation of foreign and defense policy in three major European sta…
Nato in the “New Europe”: The Politics of International Socialization After the Cold War
In recent years, the question of the post-Cold War NATO, particularly in relation to the former communist countries of Europe, has been at the heart of a series of international reform debates. NATO in the "New Europe" contributes to these debates by arguing that, contrary to conventional assumptions about the role of international security organizations, NATO has been systematically involved in the process of building liberal democracy in the fo…
Security Institutions as Agents of Socialization? Nato and the ‘New Europe
This article examines the dynamics and implications of practices of socialization enacted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in post–Cold War Central and Eastern Europe. With particular emphasis on the Czech Republic and Romania, I argue that NATO relied extensively on mechanisms of teaching and persuasion to project a particular set of liberal-democratic norms of security into the former Eastern bloc. Several interrelated condition…
International Norms, Power and the Politics of International Administration: The Kosovo Case
This article examines the practices of governance enacted within the framework of the international administration of Kosovo, which was established in 1999. I analyse the complex interplay between power and the liberal-democratic norms around which the UN-led mission defined its role in the province. The international administration exercised significant power in the legal/institutional reconstruction of the province, and in its systematic attemp…
"Nato in the "New Europe: The Politics of International Socialization after the Cold War
000 6 Thinking about NATO from Different IR Perspectives 000 7 Conclusion 000 @toc4: Appendix: Interviews 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans
Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans. By Brian Rathbun. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. 242p. $39.95. Brian Rathbun's book is an important contribution at the interface of international relations and comparative politics, providing a fascinating, well-researched analysis of the impact of domestic politics on the formulation of foreign and defense policy in three major European sta…
Securing Civilization: The EU, Nato, and the OSCE in the post-9/11 world
It has become almost a cliché in many Euro-Atlantic political and academic circles to argue that the transatlantic security community that defines itself around liberal-democratic values is facing a particularly dangerous set of challenges and must find ways to adapt to an environment marked by the growing power of unconventional enemies, particularly transnationally organized terrorist groups. But the question is, what has this meant in practice…
The Imperative to Rebuild: Assessing the Normative Case for Postconflict Reconstruction
The past two decades have witnessed the proliferation of comprehensive international missions of peacebuilding and reconstruction, aimed not simply at bringing conflict to an end but also at preventing its recurrence. Recent missions, ranging from relatively modest involvement to highly complex international administrations, have generated a debate about the rights and duties of international actors to reconstruct postconflict states. In view of …
Nato and the Challenge of Sustainable Peacebuilding
This piece introduces the concept of sustainable peacebuilding and briefly examines the growing involvement of NATO in peacebuilding operations. It also previews the empirical articles in this special section, explaining how they advance our understanding of the challenges faced by NATO in its peacebuilding efforts
Divided Partners: The Challenges of Nato-NGO Cooperation in Peacebuilding Operations
In this article, I examine the challenges associated with the cooperation between NATO and nongovernmental organizations in peacebuilding operations. I argue that those challenges need to be understood as part of a process of contestation and competition over the redefinition of the of the game in the changing domain of peacebuilding. This process of contestation, I suggest, can significantly undermine NATO's ability to contribute to sustainable …
Securing distant places? Practices of protection in contemporary peace-support operations
This article explores the dynamics and implications of practices of protection enacted within the framework of the UN-sponsored International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. It examines the ways in which those practices challenge established categories in the field of security, and discusses the problems and dilemmas they generate. The article demonstrates that the role played by North Atlantic Treaty Organization – as the lead a…
The Return of the Public in Global Governance
Many international relations scholars argue that private authority and private actors are playing increasingly prominent roles in global governance. This book focuses on the other side of the equation: the transformation of the public dimension of governance in the era of globalization. It analyses that transformation, advancing two major claims: first, that the public is beginning to play a more significant role in global governance, and, second…
Remembering the Roman past, building a European future
Commodifying security in the Balkans: Between liberal norms and illiberal practices
Security Entrepreneurs
Focusing on four East European polities—Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania—this book examines the dynamics and implications of processes of commercialization of security that have occurred following the collapse of communist regimes. These processes have been central to post-communist liberalization, and have profoundly shaped those states and their integration into European institutional structures and global economic and political circuits. …
The State–Market–Crime Nexus in the Early Days of Post-Communism
To understand contemporary practices of security provision in the former Eastern bloc, we need to start with a genealogical analysis, exploring the reconstitution of East European polities in the early days of post-communism, and analyzing the impact of those transformations on the field of security. In particular, we need to understand the peculiar dynamics and consequences of the flawed privatization processes that occurred in Eastern Europe in…
Between the Old and the New: Performing Protection in Post-Cold War Europe
Building upon the analysis of international developments in Chapter 4, Chapter 5 returns to recent developments in the national arenas of Bulgaria, Bosnia, Romania, and Serbia. The chapter examines the fluidity and complexity of the practices of performing security that have resulted from the insertion of those polities into the European field of security in combination with the persistence of some old actors, attitudes, and non-material resource…
The Oxford Handbook of International Security
Future-oriented questions are woven through the study and practice of international security. The 48 essays collected in this Handbook use such questions to provide a tour of the most innovative and exciting new areas of research as well as major developments in established lines of inquiry. The results of their efforts are: the definitive statement of the state of international security and the academic field of security studies, a comprehensive…
Remembering France's glory, securing Europe in the age of Trump
These days, when we hear the slogan ‘let's make our country great again’ we almost automatically assume the state concerned is the US, and the leader uttering the slogan is President Trump. This article invites readers to explore the discourse and practices through which another national leader is seeking to restore his country's ‘greatness’ and promote national and international security. The leader concerned is France's Emmanuel Macron. Why foc…
Nato, liberal internationalism, and the politics of imagining the Western security community
International Relations scholars often assume that NATO represents the institutional expression of a pre-existing, liberal-democratic Western security community. However, far from simply representing a pre-given community, NATO has always been involved in power-filled processes of constructing “the West.” At the heart of those processes lie practices of collective (re)imagining of the Western world, as well as the representation of internal tensi…
Confronting the International Political Sociology of the New Right
The rise of radical right-wing leaders, parties, movements, and ideas have transformed not only domestic political landscapes but also the direction and dynamics of international relations. Yet for all their emphasis on nationalist identity, on 'America First' and 'Taking Back Control,' there is an unmistakable international dimension to contemporary nationalist, populist movements. Yet these movements are also often transnationally linked. We ar…
Changing scenes of security in the time of the coronavirus pandemic
World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order
The contemporary radical Right is not merely a series of nationalist projects but a global phenomenon. This book shows how radical conservative thinkers have developed long-term counter-hegemonic strategies that challenge prevailing social and political orders both nationally and internationally. At the heart of this ideological project is a critique of liberal globalisation that seeks to mobilise transversal alliances against a common enemy: the…
Irreconcilable Differences? Nato's Response to Russian Aggression Against Ukraine
With Russia's full-spectrum war in Ukraine, NATO is rethinking its force posture and responding in ways that are consistent with its norms and identity as an alliance. While the war has been framed by some as a vindication of structural realism, we instead revisit constructivist arguments about security communities. This literature, which foregrounds learning and socialization processes, advanced scholarly and policy debates from NATO enlargement…
Broken trust: Performances and performativity in transatlantic intelligence cooperation
Can broken trust be repaired? This study examines the sociopolitical processes through which trust becomes ‘repaired’, ‘rebuilt’ or ‘restored’ following incidents and crises in relations between allies. Drawing on several bodies of literature, including International Relations (IR) scholarship on security community and on practices, we develop a framework for analyzing public performances that we argue play a significant role in restoring trust a…
Political science (21 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Political economy (16 works) · Politics (14 works) · Public Administration (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (8 works) · Global Security and Public Health (6 works) · International relations (6 works)