Ordering International Politics: Identity, Crisis, and Representational ForceHow do states sustain international order during crises? Drawing on the political philosophy of Lyotard and through an empirical examination of the Anglo-American international order during the 1956 Suez Crisis, Bially Mattern demonstrates that states can (and do) use representational force--a forceful but non-physical form of power exercised through language--to stabilize international identity and in turn international order. |
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Contents
Toward an Identity Turn? | 3 |
Sources of Order | 27 |
The Suez Puzzle | 61 |
Forcing Order | 89 |
Forcing AngloAmerican Order | 125 |
Dissolution | 161 |
ReProduction | 193 |
ReTurn to Identity | 241 |
Endnotes | 271 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Ordering International Politics: Identity, Crisis, and Representational Force |
| Author | Janice Bially Mattern |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0415948975, 9780415948975 |
| Length | 303 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / International Relations / Diplomacy Political Science / Security (National & International) |
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