Deconstructing International Politics

ISBN-13: 9780415556699 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 232 str.

Michael Dillon

Opis

This book is the first full length manuscript to draw on the the insights and techniques of deconstruction to analyse international relations. Influenced primarily by Derrida, it critiques the cornerstones of international relations such as modernity, the state, the subject, security and ethics and justice.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Modernity, Security and Deterrence  3. Signifying Power  4. The Scandal of the Refugee  5. The Sovereign and the Stranger  6. Another Justice  7. Deconstructing the Military Body  8. Transformation  9. Violence, the Messianic and the Tragic  10. Lethal Freedom. Divine Violence and the Machiavellian Moment

O autorze

Michael Dillon is Emeritus Professor of International Politics at the University of Lancaster, UK