This work 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 representations 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 method of international relations. Inspired by the work of Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Barthes, Foucault, Baudrillard, Virilio and other late modern thinkers, the author presents the case for a poststructuralist approach to world politics, to help us understand how these new technological and strategic practices have come to mediate and often dominate our relations with others in a changing world order.
This work 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 representations 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 method of international relations. Inspired by the work of Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Barthes, Foucault, Baudrillard, Virilio and other late modern thinkers, the author presents the case for a poststructuralist approach to world politics, to help us understand how these new technological and strategic practices have come to mediate and often dominate our relations with others in a changing world order.
A case for a poststructuralist approach; intelligence theory and surveillance practice; the intertextual power of international intrigue; reading the national security culture and terrorism; the terrorist discourse - signs, states and systems of global political violence; the (s)pace of international relations; S/N - international theory, Balkanization and the New World Order; Cyberwar, videogames and the Gulf War syndrome.
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.
"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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