Introduction -- From space to spatialization -- Identity, security, and the inescapability of the political -- Reading\writing NATO -- Mapping the post-Cold War order: from the London declaration to the strategic concept -- The "home-coming": NATO and the Central and Eastern European states -- From pangolin to partner: the re-construction of Russia -- Arc of tension and crisis: the South and the Mediterranean -- "Out of area or out of business": Bosnia and the deconstruction of NATO -- NATO unlimited : the Washington summit 1999 -- Deconstructing the West: NATO in the age of terrorism -- Conclusion.