Reimagining NATO after Crimea: Defender of the rule-based order and truth?

Figures & data

Table 1. Data overview.

Method	Data	Time span
Qualitative close reading	Annual reports, strategic concept, communiques, NATO-Russia Council items, Secretary General speeches, press conferences etc. with mentions of Russia; academic literature, NATO School policy briefs	2013–2022
Quantitative contextualization	Texts labeled as Speeches & transcripts on the NATO website	1996–2022

Figure 1. Uses of “security order” and “rules-based international order/international rules-based order” in the NATO corpus 1996–2022. (The main column charts display the number of occurrences per year, and the numbers below show the number of occurrences per 100,000 words. The years 1996–2012 (in gray), while outside of the article’s main time scope, are included to provide a broader context of the development of NATO discourse.)¹⁴

Figure 2. Uses of “hybrid” and “resilience” in the NATO corpus 1996–2022. (The main column charts display the number of occurrences per year, and the numbers below show the number of occurrences per 100,000 words. The years 1996–2012 (in grey), while outside of the article’s main time scope, are included to provide a broader context of the development of NATO discourse.)

Figure 3. Uses of “disinformation” and “propaganda” in the NATO corpus 1996–2022. (The main column charts display the number of occurrences per year, and the numbers below show the number of occurrences per 100,000 words. The years 1996–2012 (in grey), while outside of the article’s main time scope, are included to provide a broader context of the development of NATO discourse.)