The poetics of international politics : fact and fiction in narrative representations of world affairs /

A cutting-edge contribution to the aesthetic turn in international relations scholarship, this book exposes the role of poetic techniques in constituting the reality of international politics. It has two symmetrical goals, to illuminate the non-empirical fictions of factual international relations l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: BabĂ­k, Milan, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Narrative theory : the role of stories in the representation of reality
  • The story of anarchy : the poetic core of scientific international relations
  • The fictions of E. H. Carr's realism : dead theorist as a literary artifact
  • Bin Laden meets Bill Lawton : the politics of Don Delillo's poetic representation of 9/11
  • The end of history as an April fool's joke : Milan Kundera's literary critique of Western liberalism after 1989.