Antidiplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed, and War - Softcover

Der Derian, James

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9781557863447: Antidiplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed, and War

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ISBN 10: 155786344X ISBN 13: 9781557863447

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1992

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This book plots a trajectory from the beginning of the Second Cold war to the end of the Gulf War, to show how new global forms and representatives of spying, speed, and terror have both fortified the national security state and generated an antidiplomacy. Because the new technologies of power behind antidiplomacy are transparent and pervasive, through the exchange of signs not goods, they have proven to be resistant if not invisible to the traditional methods of International Relations.

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About the Author:

James Der Derian is Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Studies at MIT. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Southern California, and Massachusett's North Central and Lancaster Correctional Institutions. He is the author of On Diplomacy (Blackwell, 1987); and co-editor with Michael Shapiro of International/Intertextual Relations.

Review:

"Welcome addition to the area of international theory, from an original author." International Affairs

"James Der Derian is one of the most interesting and arresting voices in American international political theory. His first book, published in 1987 and entitled On Diplomacy, was one of the hallmarks of the arrival of poststructural methodology in international political theory and an original, powerful contribution to it. Provides us with an excellent series of interconnected essays in a poststructural mode. He is never less than interesting and provocative and that, surely, is a powerful reason for appreciating his vision." Political Studies

"Der Derian is an intellectual provocateur. Antidiplomacy breaks new ground, creating what amounts to an alternative genre for the study of International Relations. This book will unsettle and disturb many readers - for Der Derian aims to generate debate rather than to cry 'peace, peace' where there is no peace." Jean Bethke Elshtain, Vanderbilt University

"Der Derian has written a daring and challenging text. It sharpens one's ability to hear the hollow sounds emanating from late-modern idols of security, sovereignty, rationality, and method; it spurs one to give voice to possibilities these idols prohibit." William E. Connolly, The Johns Hopkins University

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