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Antidiplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed, and War
Antidiplomacy Spies Terror Speed and War Author:James Der Derian 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,... more » 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.« less