On NATO’s Identities and Temporalisations
Journal: Athens Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2024

Current IR theories bring ontological and temporal complications into the IR studies due to incompatibilities between the very act of theorising and the purely intersubjective nature of the IR field. In the absence of direct correspondence of IR entities, phenomena and events in the self-standing objectivity, the IR theorising, even in contrast to social sciences, tends to become its own ontological anchor. It tends to “precede” the pre-theoretical, intersubjective, immediate givenness and to at