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Multinational military exercises, interoperability, and the state in the American order

The evolution of multinational military exercises and their impact on state security

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Oct 24 2024

15:30 - 17:00 CEST

Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia

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Join this seminar to learn more on how the proliferation and complexity of multinational military exercises are altering the relationship between the state and security in the American-led order.
Multinational military exercises (MMEs) have been held on a regular basis since the Second World War, and in recent decades, this form of security cooperation has proliferated significantly. Alongside this increasing frequency, MMEs have become more complex, promoting enhanced technical and doctrinal interoperability across national militaries. This evolution, in concert with increasingly close relations between national defense industrial bases, suggests that the relationship between the state and security is undergoing significant changes. Security is traditionally viewed as a foundation of the state, and as security practices have radically changed, so, arguably, has the state. This paper will read these developments as falling at the intersection of state formation, globalisation, and security studies, which has generally found little resonance in scholarship. Through applying a relational and practice-theoretical lens, the paper develops an analysis of the state and sovereignty in the context of the contemporary American-centered security order. 

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