NATO’s Approach to the Civil Dimensions of War

Oscar Larsson is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Swedish Defense University.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. A new interregnum? Hegemonic crisis and global insecurity.- 3. Ontological security dynamics and the evolution of European integration. The case of the Covid-19 pandemic.- 4. COVID-19: Transition from Slow Violence to Spectacular Violence.- 5. Pandemic politics and the Social Shield: a just securitisation approach to COVID-19.- 6. Making the Exceptional Normal: Biopolitical Care and Control in Post-Pandemic Migration Government in the Canary Islands.- 7. Between Solidarity and Diffuse Securitisation: Spain’s Development Cooperation and the Security–Development–Health Nexus During COVID-19.- 8.- ICTs and young people: perceptions of security and risk concerning the use of mobile devices in educational settings.- 9.- Desecuritisation and illiberal indignation in El Roto’s Covid-19 editorial cartoons.- 10. The pandemic, the state, and society. Performing state sovereignty during the first months of the pandemic in Spain and Italy.- 11. Spain and Argentina: same pandemic, similar policies, different outcomes.- 12. When Democracy is Tested: Covid-19, Security Challenges, and Institutional Legitimacy in Brazil and Portugal.- 13. Khakiwashing as a visual instrumentalization of Armed Forces during COVID-19: the cases of Bukele in El Salvador and Bolsonaro in Brazil.- 14. Conclusions: Planetary crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and emancipatory security.