This work plots a trajectory from the beginning of the Second Cold War to the end of the Gulf War, to show how new global forms and representations of spying, speed and terror have both fortified the national security state and generated an "antidiplomacy". Because the new technologies of power behind antidiplomacy are transparent and pervasive, through the exchange of signs not goods, they have proven to be resistant if not invisible to the traditional method of international relations. Inspired by the work of Nietzsche, Bakhtin, Barthes, Foucault, Baudrillard, Virilio and other late modern thinkers, the author presents the case for a poststructuralist approach to world politics, to help us understand how these new technological and strategic practices have come to mediate and often dominate our relations with others in a changing world order.
- ISBN10 1557863318
- ISBN13 9781557863317
- Publish Date 29 February 1992
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Paperback
- Pages 220
- Language English