Ordering international politics : identity, crisis, and representational force /

How 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 force...

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Main Author: Mattern, Janice Bially
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2005.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Toward an identity turn?
  • Theorizing Identity
  • Chapter Two: Sources of Order ; What is International Order? ; Sources and Factors ; Identity ; Order in Crisis
  • Chapter Three: The Suez Puzzle ; Recognizing We-ness ; The Special Relationship ; The Suez Crisis ; (Not) Understanding Nonviolence
  • Chapter Four: Forcing Order ; Language-Power ; Representational Force ; Bargaining and Arguing ; Terror and Exile ; Agency, Rationality, and the Uses of Tolerance
  • Forcing Anglo-American Order
  • Chapter Five: Demagnetization ; Nasser's Unsettling ; Getting to Force ; Using Force ; After Force
  • Chapter Six: Dissolution ; Narrating American Betrayal
  • Narrating British Bellicosity ; Specialness Dissolved
  • Chapter Seven: Re-Production ; The East/West and Lion/Eagle Problem ; The American Campaign ; The British Campaign ; The Fastened We
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Eight: Re-Turn to Identity ; In Theory ; In History ; In Practice ; Conclusion: Turn to Ethics.