Critical practices in international theory selected essays /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Der Derian, James.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, c2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Mediating estrangement : a theory for diplomacy
  • Arms, hostages, and the importance of shredding in earnest : reading the national security culture (II)
  • The (s)pace of international relations : simulation, surveillance, and speed
  • Narco-terrorism at home and abroad
  • The terrorist discourse : signs, states, and systems of global political violence
  • S/N : international theory, Balkanisation and the new world order
  • Cyberwar, video games, and the Gulf War syndrome
  • ACT IV : fathers (and sons), mother courage (and her children), and the dog, the cave, and the beef
  • The value of security : Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche and Baudrillard
  • The CIA, Hollywood, and sovereign conspiracies
  • Great men, monumental history, and not-so-grand theory: a meta-review of Henry Kissinger's Diplomacy
  • Post-theory : the eternal return of ethics in international relations
  • Cyber-deterrence
  • Global swarming, virtual security, and Bosnia
  • The simulation triangle : in the simulated battlefields of tomorrow, war has more in common with Disneyworld than the Pentagon
  • Virtuous war and Hollywood : the Pentagon wants what Hollywood's got
  • Virtuous war/virtual theory
  • The illusion of a grand strategy
  • In terrorem : before and after 9/11
  • The question of information technology in international relations
  • Hedley Bull and the case for a post-classical approach.