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. |
Contents
CHAPTER I Toward an Identity Turn? | 2 |
Theorizing Identity | 19 |
CHAPTER 2 Sources of Order | 20 |
CHAPTER 3 The Suez Puzzle | 47 |
CHAPTER 4 Forcing Order | 69 |
Forcing AngloAmerican Order | 98 |
CHAPTER 5 Demagnetization | 101 |
CHAPTER 6 Dissolution | 126 |
CHAPTER 7 ReProduction | 152 |
Conclusion | 188 |
CHAPTER 8 ReTurn to Identity | 189 |
Endnotes | 213 |
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