National missile defence and the politics of US identity : a poststructural critique

National missile defence and the politics of US identity : a poststructural critique / Natalie Bormann.

Why adopt a poststructural lens for the reading of the military strategy of national missile defence (NMD)? No doubt, when contemplating an attack on US territory by intercontinental ballistic missiles, consulting Michel Foucault and critical international relations theory scholars may not seem the...

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Main Author: Bormann, Natalie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.
Subjects:
Ballistic missile defenses > United States.
Nationalism > United States.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Ballistic missile defenses
Diplomatic relations
Military readiness
Nationalism
Politics and government
National Missile Defense
Militärpolitik
Innere Sicherheit
Nationalbewusstsein
United States > Defenses.
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Foreign relations.
United States
USA
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Table of Contents:
  • National missile defence (NMD) and IR
  • Michel Foucault and NMD
  • Revisiting missile defence
  • NMD : issues and debates
  • NMD and foreign policy discourse
  • NMD and "regimes of truth"
  • NMD and the "everyday"
  • Reflections on NMD and identity.

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