States of Political Discourse: Words, Regimes, Seditions

by Constantinou; Costas

• ISBN13: 9780415429597
• ISBN10: 0415429595
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-12-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

* 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 Discourseaddresses these questions through a series of highly original and provocative essays that engage a range of political conditions and practices, exploring areas that are conventionally neglected. Topics include the language of normal and pathological states in Freudian psychoanalysis, the mythography of Europe, the political reification of the Himalayan region, the spirituality of cosmopolitanism, the status of the Knights of St John, and the literary exploration of diplomacy and security.

Table of Contents

Foreword by R. B. J. Walker Acknowledgements Stasis, or the Seditious State

Metastasis

States, Ethnocratic States and States Within

Representations of Sovereignty on the Himalayas

Piracy, Knight-errantry, Statehood

Antistasis

Poetics of Security

Diplomacy, Grotesque Realism and Ottoman Historiography

NATO's Caps

Ekstasis

Europa Mythica

Hippopolis/Cynopolis

Hypostasis Notes

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