Ordering International Politics: Identity, Crisis and Representational Force (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415948968)

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 forceful but non-physical form of power exercised through language--to stabilize international identity and in turn international order.

Author: Janice Bially Mattern
ISBN-10: 0415948967
ISBN-13: 9780415948968
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/24/2004
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.08w x 0.81d