LEADER 03044nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910465657703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78170-133-4 010 $a1-84779-207-3 035 $a(CKB)2560000000085805 035 $a(EBL)1069577 035 $a(OCoLC)818847300 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000712814 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12249040 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712814 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10651420 035 $a(PQKB)10034651 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000085715 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069577 035 $a(OCoLC)990186399 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78008 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1991224 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1069577 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10623332 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL843509 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000085805 100 $a20090123d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNational missile defence and the politics of US identity$b[electronic resource] $ea poststructural critique /$fNatalie Bormann 210 $aManchester $cManchester University Press ;$aNew York $cdistributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave MacMillan$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (187 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7190-7470-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [145]-170) and index. 327 $a9780719074707; 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 330 $aWhy 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 606 $aBallistic missile defenses$zUnited States 606 $aNationalism$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xDefenses 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBallistic missile defenses 615 0$aNationalism 676 $a358.1/740973 700 $aBormann$b Natalie$01056585 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465657703321 996 $aNational missile defence and the politics of US identity$92491077 997 $aUNINA