ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the practical patterns of interaction. Bourdieu's research question was often how actors were related rather than if they were related - because the nationally defined fields were easier to define a priori than internationally constituted fields. It presents a detail NATO's accumulation of social capital in the field. States were selected on the basis of possessing military capital, which had been a particularly valued type of capital during the Cold War and still had some clout in the 1990s. In the case of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), this category translates into member states and the states affiliated to NATO through various programmes. The North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC) was established in 1991 and created a new forum for consultations between the former enemies - 'extending a hand of friendship across the East-West divide'. The science programmes constitute part of NATO's strategy to remain central in European security through building formalized relations with a variety of actors.
