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One of the earliest warnings I give to my students is to beware of thinking about countries and institutions as if they were people. Germany doesn’t ‘think’, and China doesn’t ‘feel’ anything. To talk about countries or institutions in that way is to profoundly misunderstand what a state is, or what an institution like the UN does. In this light, to be presented with a book billed as a ‘biography’ of Nato raises all sorts of alarm bells.