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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451377103321

Autore

Constantinou Costas M

Titolo

States of political discourse [[electronic resource] ] : words, regimes, seditions / / Costas M. Constantinou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-280-17809-4

0-203-36273-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

The new internation relations

Disciplina

320.1/01

Soggetti

International relations - Philosophy

State, The

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Stasis, or the seditious state -- States, ethnocratic states, and states within -- Representations of sovereignty on the Himalayas -- Piracy, knight-errantry, statehood -- Poetics of security -- Diplomacy, grotesque realism, and Ottoman historiography -- NATO's caps -- Europa mythica -- Hippopolis/cynopolis -- Hypostasis.

Sommario/riassunto

* 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 alternative ways of being with and relating to others?States of Political Discourse addresses these questions through a series of highly original and provocative essays that en