A reinterpretation of realism genealogy, semiology, dromology

Post-Realism: The rhetorical turn in international relations

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 277-304

  Der Derian, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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1. Some of the more notable signposts of this debate include: Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics (New York: Scribners, 1932);
2. E. H. Can, The Twenty Years' Crisis: 1919-1939 (London: Macmillan, 1939);
3. Hans Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (New York: Knopf, 1948);
4. John Herz, Political Realism and Political Idealism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951);
5. H. Bull, "International Theory: The Case for a Classicial Approach", World Politics (April 1966):361-77;
6. and J. David Singer, "The Incompleat Theorist: Insight Without Evidence", Contending Approaches to International Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969), 63-86.
7. Michael J. Smith, Realist Thought from Weber to Kissinger (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986);
8. and Joel H. Rosenthal, Righteous Realists: Political Realism, Responsible Power, and American Culture in the Nuclear Age (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991).
9. Richard Ashley, "Political Realism and Human Interests", International Studies Quarterly 25(spring 1981):204-36
10. and "The Poverty of Neo-Realism", International Organization 38(spring 1984):225-86;
11. R. B. J. Walker, "Realism, Change, and International Political Theory", International Studies Quarterly 31(March 1987):65-86;
12. Anders Stephanson, Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989);
13. Friedrich Kratochwil, Rules, Norms and Decisions: On the Conditions of Practical and Legal Reasoning in International Relations and Domestic Affairs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989);
14. and Roger Epp, "Power Politics and the Civitas Terrena: The Augustinian Sources of Anglo-American Thought in International Relations" (Ph. D. diss., Kingston Ontario: Queen's University, 1990).
15. Robert Keohane, "Realism, Neorealism, and the Study of World Politics", in Keohane, ed., Neorealism and Its Critics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), 1-26;
16. Alexander Wendt, "Anarchy is What States Make of It", International Organization 46(spring 1992):391-425;
17. and Barry Buzan, Charles Jones, and Richard Little, The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).
18. James Der Derian, On Diplomacy: A Genealogy of Western Estrangement (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987);
19. and "The Value of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche and Baudrillard", in The Political Subject of Violence, eds. David Campbell and Michael Dillon (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1993).
20. Sandy Petrey, Realism and Revolution: Balzac, Stendhal, Zola and the Performances of History (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988), xii.
21. Frederic Jameson, Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1971];
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25. and Jim George and David Campbell, "Patterns of Dissent and the Celebration of Difference: Critical Social Theory and International Relations", International Studies Quarterly 34(1990):269-93.
26. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1968), 55.
27. Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. Particularly useful are two essays which engage historical and linguistic forms of realism: Barthes' S/Z (New York: Farvar, Strauss and Giroux, 1974)
28. which takes apart line-by-line Balzac's Sarrasine- and many of the tenets of representational realism with it- and Derrida's Limited, Inc a b c⋯ (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977)
29. Sandy Petrey's Realism and Revolution.
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31. reprinted in The Grain of the Voice (New York: Hill and Wang, 1985), 129.
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33. Speed and Politics (New York: Semiotext (e), 1986);
34. War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception (New York: Verso, 1989).
35. "The (S) pace of International Relations: Speed, Simulation, and Surveillance", International Studies Quarterly 34(1990):295-310.
36. "Being Whatever it Takes to Win Election", Michael Kelly, New York Times (23 August 1992):295-310.
37. Paul Virilio, interview, from Art and Philosophy (Milan, Italy: Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1991), 142.
38. James Der Derian, Antidiplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed and War (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992).
39. below and E. H. Carr, The Twenty Years' Crisis: 1919-1939, 5-30.
40. Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Destruktion and Deconstruction", Dialogue and Deconstruction, ed. D. P. Michelfelder and R. E. Palmer (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989), 102-13.
41. Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust (Cambridge Mass.: Polity Press, 1989);
42. and Richard J. Bernstein, "The Incommensurability and Otherness Revisited", The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernity (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992);
43. and Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979).
44. Brent Scowcroft, "America Can't Afford to Turn Inward", New Perspective Quarterly (summer 1992):7.
45. Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Selective Commitment", New Perspective Quarterly (summer 1992):15.
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51. Richard Ashley, "The Poverty of Neo-Realism";
52. William Olson and Nicolas Onuf, "The Growth of a Discipline Reviewed", in International Relations: British and American Perspectives, ed. Steve Smith (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985);
53. and Yale Ferguson and Richard Mansbach, The Elusive Quest: Theory and International Politics (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988).
54. Richard Little, "Structuralism and Neo-Realism", in International Relations: A Handbook of Current Theory, eds. Margot Light and A. J. R. Groom (London: Frances Pinter, 1985), 74-89.
55. William Connolly, Identity\Difference, 36-63;
56. and David Campbell, Writing Security, 1-15.
57. Friedrich Heer, The Medieval World: Europe 1100-1350 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1961), 26.
58. Carr, Twenty Years' Crisis, 30.
59. der Derian, Antidiplomacy, 1-15.
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64. Martin Wight, International Theory: The Three Traditions, eds. Gabriele Wight and Brian Porter (London and Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1991), 258. Wight went on to list over a dozen novels that should be essential reading for every student of international relations.
65. Nietzsche, The Wanderer and his Shadow, 11.
66. Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 38.
67. Robert Gilpin, "The Richness of the Tradition of Political Realism", Neorealism and Its Critics, 308.
68. Justin Rosenberg, "What's the matter with Realism", Review of International Studies 16(October 1990):285-304.
69. Michael Doyle, "Thucydidean Realism", Review of International Studies 16(July 1990):223-37.
70. Hayward Alker, Jr., "The Dialectical Logic of Thucydides' Melian Dialogue", American Political Science Review 82(September 1988):805-20.
71. Daniel Garst, "Thucydides and Neorealism", International Studies Quarterly 33(March 1989):3-28.
72. Christopher Norris, Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals, and the Gulf War (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1992).
73. Jean Baudrillard, "The Gulf War Has Not Taken Place", The Guardian (29 March 1991).
74. J. Fisher Solomon, Discourse and Reference in the Nuclear Age (Norman Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988).
75. Twilight of the Idols, 106-7.]
76. A. J. P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War (New York: Atheneum, 1962).
77. David Long, "J. A. Hobson and Idealism in International Relations", Review of International Studies 17(July 1991):285-304.
78. Epp, "Power Politics and the Civitas Terrena: The Augustinian Sources of Anglo-American Thought in International Relations"
79. Politics among Nations, 4;
80. "The Intellectual and Political Functions of Theory", in Truth and Power (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970), 251.
81. Man, the State, and War (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959);
82. and Theory of International Politics (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1979).
83. Alberto Coll, The Wisdom of Statecraft; Smith, Realist Thought from Weber to Kissinger;
84. and Rosenthal, Righteous Realists. Another exception would be The Logic of Anarchy by Barry Buzan, Charles Jones, and Richard Little, who construct a revisionist theory of neorealism that is much more complex and historical than Waltz's.
85. R. J. Bernstein, The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernity (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992), 65-66.
86. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, and "Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce" by Jacques Derrida.
87. "Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment", New German Critique 50(summer 1992):109-42;
88. Tina Kendall and Shari Benstock, in A Derrida Reader: Retween the Rlinds, ed. Peggy Kamuf (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), 571-98.
89. Righteous Realists, 118, 135, 160.
90. James Joyce, Ulysses (New York: Random House, 1986), 575