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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bormann, Natalie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballistic missile defenses--United States.

Ballistic missile defenses.

Nationalism--United States.

Nationalism.

United States--Defenses.

United States.

United States--Politics and government.

United States--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 176 pages)

Other Title:

National missile defense and the politics of US identity

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 obvious route to take. The answer to this lies in another question: why has there been so much interest and continuous investment in NMD deployment when there is such ambiguity surrounding the status of threat to which it responds, controversy over its technological feasibility and concern about its

Contents:

9780719074707; 9780719074707; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: national missile defence (NMD) and IR; 1 Michel Foucault and NMD; 2 Revisiting missile defence; 3 NMD: issues and debates; 4 NMD and foreign policy discourse; 5 NMD and 'regimes of truth'; 6 NMD and the 'everyday'; 7 Reflections on NMD and identity; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-170) and index.

ISBN:

1-78170-133-4

1-84779-207-3

OCLC:

818847300