1st Edition

States of Political Discourse Words, Regimes, Seditions

By Costas Constantinou Copyright 2004
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

* How are states made possible, constructed in theory and practice, and what alternative possibilities are given up by conferring legitimacy on states? * How do 'reasons of state' appropriate and inform discourses of sovereignty, territoriality, historiography, diplomacy, security and community? * How can we employ language to challenge the problematic logics of international relations and imagine... Read more
Foreword by R. B. J. Walker Acknowledgements Stasis, or the Seditious State Part 1: Metastasis 1. States, Ethnocratic States and States Within 2. Representations of Sovereignty on the Himalayas 3. Piracy, Knight-errantry, Statehood Part 2: Antistasis 4. Poetics of Security 5. Diplomacy, Grotesque Realism and Ottoman Historiography 6. NATO's Caps Part 3: Ekstasis 7. Europa Mythica 8. Hippopolis/Cynopolis Part 4: Hypostasis Notes

Biography

Costas M. Constantinou is senior lecturer in international relations at Keele University, UK. His research interests include global politics and culture, diplomacy, and the history of social and political thought. Dr Constantinou is also the author of On the Way to Diplomacy.