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Nothing to Fear but Fear: Governmentality and the Biopolitical Production of Terror
- François Debrix, Alexander D. Barder
- Sociology
- 1 December 2009
Moving beyond the political framework of both Hobbes and Schmitt that privileges a centralization of power as a way of dealing with the fear of violent death, this article turns to Foucault’s… Expand
The closing of the American mind: ‘American School’ International Relations and the state of grand theory
- D. Levine, Alexander D. Barder
- Sociology
- 21 May 2014
Senior ‘American School’ International Relations theorists — John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, Robert Keohane, and others — have evinced a growing concern about a rise of technocratic… Expand
Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, Violence, and Horror in World Politics
- F. Debrix, Alexander D. Barder
- Political Science
- 13 October 2011
Introduction: Beyond Biopolitics 1. Agonal Sovereignty: Rethinking War Politics in an Age of Terror 2. Nothing to Feat but Fear Itself: Governmentality and the Reproduction of Terror 3. The Nomos of… Expand
‘The World Is Too Much with Us’: Reification and the Depoliticising of Via Media Constructivist IR
- Alexander D. Barder, D. Levine
- Sociology
- 24 May 2012
International Relations’ constructivist turn – that body of approaches emerging in the late 1980s/early 1990s in which international outcomes were held to be predicated upon complex social… Expand
Empire Within: International Hierarchy and its Imperial Laboratories of Governance
- Alexander D. Barder
- Political Science
- 23 March 2015
Introduction Empire as International Hierarchy 1. International Relations Theory: Hierarchy and the Problem of Empire 2. Imperial Laboratories of Violence: A Genealogy of the Camp 3. Imperial… Expand
Neo-Materialist Ecologies and Global Systemic Crises
- Alexander D. Barder
- Economics
- 3 July 2016
Abstract Liberal international relations theory largely rests on the assumption that the contemporary international liberal order is robust enough to withstand crises of political authority and/or… Expand
Rethinking International History, Theory and the Event with Hannah Arendt
- Alexander D. Barder, David McCourt
- Sociology
- 1 October 2010
This paper reconsiders the event in International Relations (IR) through the writings of Hannah Arendt. The event has for too long been neglected in IR; international events are overwhelmingly… Expand
Scientific racism, race war and the global racial imaginary
- Alexander D. Barder
- Sociology
- 1 February 2019
Abstract The premise of this paper is the elucidation of a different ontology of global politics and order of the nineteenth century. International relations theory takes for granted a largely… Expand
Reconsidering the Place of Violence in Hannah Arendt's Thought: The Agonistic Event and the Unpredictability of Political Beginnings
- F. Debrix, Alexander D. Barder
- Psychology
- 29 March 2010
Hannah Arendt's thought has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence of interest among international relations and political theorists in recent years. Yet few among Arendt's commentators have sought to… Expand
American Hegemony Comes Home
- Alexander D. Barder
- Sociology
- 22 April 2013
International theorists have long argued over the longevity of American hegemony and whether or not the American-centered international order is currently in crisis. What remains largely missing in… Expand
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