Yi-Fu Tuan Geography Lecture Series

NATO has had, since its origins, a policy of attempting to produce interoperability among its national militaries. Dittmer examines the concept of interoperability and looks at the diplomatic sites and processes through which it is negotiated. He examines the two fields in which interoperability can be seen to emerge: procedures and war materiel. These differing materialities (of bodies, and of weapon systems) are key to the different ways in which interoperability has emerged over time.