02721nam 22006134a 450 991045137710332120200520144314.01-280-17809-40-203-36273-X(CKB)1000000000253980(EBL)200585(OCoLC)252705512(SSID)ssj0000250963(PQKBManifestationID)11195336(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000250963(PQKBWorkID)10247026(PQKB)10625935(MiAaPQ)EBC200585(PPN)19845371X(Au-PeEL)EBL200585(CaPaEBR)ebr10162691(CaONFJC)MIL17809(EXLCZ)99100000000025398020040120d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrStates of political discourse[electronic resource] words, regimes, seditions /Costas M. ConstantinouLondon ;New York Routledge20041 online resource (210 p.)The new internation relationsDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-42959-5 0-415-32835-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-174) and index.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.* 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 enNew International RelationsInternational relationsPhilosophyState, TheElectronic books.International relationsPhilosophy.State, The.320.1/01Constantinou Costas M877105MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451377103321States of political discourse1958465UNINA