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DECONSTRUCTING INTERNATIONAL POLITICS MICHAEL DILLON INTERVENTIONS DECONSTRUCTING INTERNATIONAL POLITICS MichaelDillonisinternationallyregardedforhiscontributionsbypoliticalphiloso- phers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers more broadly. It is difficult to overrate his importance to the devel- opment of critical deconstructive approaches, not only in challenging traditional scholarshipandaddressingcontemporarypoliticsbutinarticulatingnewapproaches andnewthinking. Thisbookdrawstogether someofhiskeyworksandisframedbyanintroduc- tionwrittenspeciallyforthevolume.Itisthefirstfull-lengthworktodrawonthe insights and techniques of deconstruction to analyse international relations. Influ- enced primarilybyDerrida,itcritiquesthe cornerstones ofinternational relations suchasmodernity,thestate,thesubject,securityandethicsandjustice. This volume will provide an invaluable resource for teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels on traditional international relations courses and on the increasing number of specialised courses in critical approaches. Well designed and structured,itisaccessibletothenoviceaswellaschallengingforthespecialist. Michael Dillon is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Lancaster,UK. Interventions Editedby Jenny Edkins,Aberystwyth Universityand Nick Vaughan-Williams,Universityof Warwick ‘As Michel Foucault has famously stated, “knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting”. In this spirit the Edkins–Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits cutting-edge, critical works that challenge mainstream understandings in international rela- tions. It is the best place to contribute post-disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognizeandaffirmtheworldrecycledinIR’straditionalgeopoliticalimaginary.’ Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa, USA Theseriesaimstoadvanceunderstandingofthekeyareasinwhichscholarswork- ingwithinbroadcriticalpost-structuralandpost-colonialtraditionshavechosento maketheirinterventions,andtopresentinnovativeanalysesofimportanttopics. Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, politics and other disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical and textual studies ininternationalpolitics. CriticalTheoristsand InsuringSecurity InternationalRelations Biopolitics,securityandrisk EditedbyJennyEdkinsand LuisLobo-Guerrero NickVaughan-Williams FoucaultandInternational EthicsasForeignPolicy Relations Britain,theEUandtheOther Newcriticalengagements DanBulley EditedbyNicholasJ.Kierseyand DougStokes Universality,Ethicsand InternationalRelations InternationalRelationsand Agrammaticalreading Non-WesternThought VéroniquePin-Fat Imperialism,colonialismand The Time of theCity investigationsofglobal Politics,philosophy,andgenre modernity MichaelJ.Shapiro EditedbyRobbieShilliam GoverningSustainableDevelopment AutobiographicalInternational Partnership,protestandpower Relations attheWorldSummit I,IR CarlDeath EditedbyNaeemInayatullah WarandRape Re-ThinkingInternational Law,memoryandjustice RelationsTheory viaDeconstruction NicolaHenry BadredineArfi Madnessin InternationalRelations The NewViolentCartography Psychology,securityandthe Geo-analysisaftertheaestheticturn globalgovernanceof EditedbySamOkothOpondoand mentalhealth MichaelJ.Shapiro AlisonHowell InsuringWar Sovereignty,securityandrisk Spatiality,Sovereigntyand LuisLobo-Guerrero CarlSchmitt Geographiesofthenomos InternationalRelations, EditedbyStephenLegg MeaningandMimesis NecatiPolat PoliticsofUrbanism Seeinglikeacity The PostcolonialSubject WarrenMagnusson Claimingpolitics/governing othersinlatemodernity BeyondBiopolitics VivienneJabri Theory,violenceandhorror inworldpolitics Foucaultand thePoliticsof FrançoisDebrixandAlexanderD.Barder Hearing LauriSiisiäinen The PoliticsofSpeed VolunteerTourismin the Capitalism,thestateandwar GlobalSouth inanacceleratingworld Givingbackinneoliberaltimes SimonGlezos WandaVrasti Politicsand theArtof CosmopolitanGovernment Commemoration inEurope Memorialstostrugglein Citizensandentrepreneurs LatinAmericaandSpain inpostnationalpolitics KatherineHite OwenParker IndianForeignPolicy Studiesinthe Trans-Disciplinary Thepoliticsofpostcolonial Method identity Aftertheaestheticturn PriyaChacko MichaelJ.Shapiro Politicsofthe Event AlternativeAccountabilitiesin Time,movement,becoming GlobalPolitics TomLundborg Thescarsofviolence BrentJ.Steele TheorisingPost-Conflict Reconciliation CelebrityHumanitarianism Agonism,restitutionandrepair Theideologyofglobalcharity EditedbyAlexanderKellerHirsch IlanKapoor Europe’sEncounterwithIslam DeconstructingInternational Thesecularandthepostsecular Politics LucaMavelli MichaelDillon DECONSTRUCTING INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Michael Dillon Firstpublished2013 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness (cid:2)c 2013MichaelDillon TherightofMichaelDillontobeidentifiedasauthorofthiswork hasbeenassertedbyhiminaccordancewiththeCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttocontacttheauthors/copyright holdersoftheworksreprintedinthisbookandtoobtainpermission topublishextracts.Anyomissionsbroughttoourattentionwillbe remediedinfutureeditions. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproduced orutilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans, nowknownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording, orinanyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissionin writingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksor registeredtrademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationand explanationwithoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dillon,Michael,1945– Deconstructinginternationalpolitics/MichaelDillon. p.cm.–(Interventions) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. 1.Internationalrelations.2.Internationalrelations–Philosophy. I.Title. 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