This book covers the theoretical frameworks and practices of international state-building, the debates they have triggered, and the way that international state-building has developed in the post-Cold War era. Divided into four parts, David Chandler:
examines the changing international context in the 1990s and 2000s, in which the non-Western state was problematized in terms of both its security and development capacities, with debates around the need for external economic conditionality and more direct forms of humanitarian intervention, it then analyzes how the terms of...
This book covers the theoretical frameworks and practices of international state-building, the debates they have triggered, and the way that intern...
This book is a comprehensive account of development in a global context. It explains the contemporary realities and likely future of the developing world and also explores the historical processes and economic dynamics which have led to this.
This book is a comprehensive account of development in a global context. It explains the contemporary realities and likely future of the developing wo...
This book is a critical inquiry into sovereignty and argues that the meaning and functions performed by this concept have changed significantly during the past decades, with profound implications for the ontological status of the state and the modus operandi of the international system as a whole. Although we have grown accustomed to regarding sovereignty as a defining characteristic of the modern state and as a constitutive principle of the international system, Sovereignty as Symbolic Form argues that recent changes indicate that sovereignty has been turned into something granted,...
This book is a critical inquiry into sovereignty and argues that the meaning and functions performed by this concept have changed significantly during...
Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human bodies and body parts. To track horror s work, what horror decomposes and, perhaps, recomposes, Debrix goes beyond the idea of the integrality and integrity of the human body and it brings the focus on parts, pieces, or fragments of bodies and lives. Looking at horror s production of bodily fragments, both against and beyond humanity, the book is also about horror s own attempt at re-forming or re-creating matter, from the perspective of...
Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human...
Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human bodies and body parts. To track horror s work, what horror decomposes and, perhaps, recomposes, Debrix goes beyond the idea of the integrality and integrity of the human body and it brings the focus on parts, pieces, or fragments of bodies and lives. Looking at horror s production of bodily fragments, both against and beyond humanity, the book is also about horror s own attempt at re-forming or re-creating matter, from the perspective of...
Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human...
