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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465657703321

Autore

Bormann Natalie

Titolo

National missile defence and the politics of US identity [[electronic resource] ] : a poststructural critique / / Natalie Bormann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press

New York, : distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave MacMillan, 2008

ISBN

1-78170-133-4

1-84779-207-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Disciplina

358.1/740973

Soggetti

Ballistic missile defenses - United States

Nationalism - United States

Electronic books.

United States Defenses

United States Politics and government

United States Foreign relations

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. [145]-170) and index.

Nota di contenuto

9780719074707; 9780719074707; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: national missile defence (NMD) and IR; 1 Michel Foucault and NMD; 2 Revisiting missile defence; 3 NMD: issues and debates; 4 NMD and foreign policy discourse; 5 NMD and 'regimes of truth'; 6 NMD and the 'everyday'; 7 Reflections on NMD and identity; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Why adopt a poststructural lens for the reading of the military strategy of national missile defence (NMD)? No doubt, when contemplating an attack on US territory by intercontinental ballistic missiles, consulting Michel Foucault and critical international relations theory scholars may not seem the obvious route to take. The answer to this lies in another question: why has there been so much interest and continuous investment in NMD deployment when there is such ambiguity surrounding the status of threat to which it responds, controversy over its technological feasibility and concern about its