The Ashgate research companion to modern theory, modern power, world politics [electronic resource] : critical investigations / edited by Scott G Nelson and Nevzat Soguk

Author:: Soguk, Nevzat, Dr.
Published:: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2015.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (491 pages)
Additional Creators:: Nelson, Scott G, Dr. and Der Derian, James

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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword (Avante!) by James Der Derian; 1 Introduction: The Measure of Modern Theory in World Politics; PART I THEORETICAL INTERVENTIONS; 2 Ever Since the Days of Thucydides: On the Textual Origins of IR Theory; 3 Appropriating Adam Smith: Affirmation and Contestation in Discourses of Political Economy; 4 Marx and Materiality: "International Relations" as Embedded Efficiencies and Emergencies, 5 No International Theory, but What about Transformation? A Critical Reading of Martin Wight and Raya Dunayevskaya6 Hannah Arendt and the Geopolitics of Ecology; 7 Critical Spirits/Realist Specters: Some Hypotheses on the Spectro-Poetics of International Relations; PART II SECURITY, REPRESENTATION, AND SUBJECTIVITY; 8 The Centrality of Tabloid Geopolitics: Western Discourses of Terror and the Defacing of the Other; 9 Writing from the Edge; 10 The Presence of War: "Here and Elsewhere"; 11 Territorializing the Soul: The Geopolitics of Subjectivity, 12 Return of the Oppressed: Recognition, Violence, and the Mediation of Estrangement13 The Achievements of Feminism in IR; PART III THE ANALYTICS OF WORLD POLITICS; 14 Between U.S. Imperialism and "Empire": World Politics and the Globalization of Late Capitalist Subjectivity; 15 "Beyond" the International: The Immanence of the Global; 16 Interdisciplining Global Thinking; 17 The (Human) Subject of Security: Beyond the Biopolitics of Resilience; 18 Melancholia, Realism, and International Relations; 19 Beyond Dualism: Expanded Understandings of Religion and Global Justice, and 20 The Paradox of Crisis and the Importance of Being Disinterested21 Constructivism, Archaeology, and Humanitarian Intervention: A Reflection on Method; PART IV VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES; 22 What Would a Global Civic Order Look Like? A Perspective from Islamic History; 23 Cosmopolitan Theory and World Politics: An Argument for Cosmopolitan Realism; 24 The Last Frontier: Contemporary Peregrinations over the Borders of International Relations; 25 Nationalism, Violence, and Globalization: Reflections on Gandhi's Political Thought; Epilogue: Political Judgment in International Relations Theory; Index

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9781472402653
1472402650

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