Costas M. Constantinou is senior lecturer in international relations at Keele University, UK. His research interests include global politics and culture, diplomacy, and the history of social and political thought. Dr Constantinou is also the author of On the Way to Diplomacy.

'The book is dense, and its analysis intense. Intellectually challenging claims are backed with meticulous research and philosophical rigour. It heralds new possiblities for research and analyses by intergrating overlooked methods and themes and by questioning the accuracy/paradoxes of widespread hellenogenic imports.' - Millenium Review'Constantinou makes some serious claims and unsettling challenges to IR and politics.' - Dr Garen Karapetyan, Independent Scholar.

• Foreword by R. B. J. Walker Acknowledgements Stasis, or the Seditious State Part 1: Metastasis 1. States, Ethnocratic States and States Within 2. Representations of Sovereignty on the Himalayas 3. Piracy, Knight-errantry, Statehood Part 2: Antistasis 4. Poetics of Security 5. Diplomacy, Grotesque Realism and Ottoman Historiography 6. NATO's Caps Part 3: Ekstasis 7. Europa Mythica 8. Hippopolis/Cynopolis Part 4: Hypostasis Notes

Costas M. Constantinou is senior lecturer in international relations at Keele University, UK. His research interests include global politics and culture, diplomacy, and the history of social and political thought. Dr Constantinou is also the author of On the Way to Diplomacy.

'The book is dense, and its analysis intense. Intellectually challenging claims are backed with meticulous research and philosophical rigour. It heralds new possiblities for research and analyses by intergrating overlooked methods and themes and by questioning the accuracy/paradoxes of widespread hellenogenic imports.' - Millenium Review'Constantinou makes some serious claims and unsettling challenges to IR and politics.' - Dr Garen Karapetyan, Independent Scholar.

• Foreword by R. B. J. Walker Acknowledgements Stasis, or the Seditious State Part 1: Metastasis 1. States, Ethnocratic States and States Within 2. Representations of Sovereignty on the Himalayas 3. Piracy, Knight-errantry, Statehood Part 2: Antistasis 4. Poetics of Security 5. Diplomacy, Grotesque Realism and Ottoman Historiography 6. NATO's Caps Part 3: Ekstasis 7. Europa Mythica 8. Hippopolis/Cynopolis Part 4: Hypostasis Notes

Costas M. Constantinou is senior lecturer in international relations at Keele University, UK. His research interests include global politics and culture, diplomacy, and the history of social and political thought. Dr Constantinou is also the author of On the Way to Diplomacy.

'The book is dense, and its analysis intense. Intellectually challenging claims are backed with meticulous research and philosophical rigour. It heralds new possiblities for research and analyses by intergrating overlooked methods and themes and by questioning the accuracy/paradoxes of widespread hellenogenic imports.' - Millenium Review'Constantinou makes some serious claims and unsettling challenges to IR and politics.' - Dr Garen Karapetyan, Independent Scholar.

• Foreword by R. B. J. Walker Acknowledgements Stasis, or the Seditious State Part 1: Metastasis 1. States, Ethnocratic States and States Within 2. Representations of Sovereignty on the Himalayas 3. Piracy, Knight-errantry, Statehood Part 2: Antistasis 4. Poetics of Security 5. Diplomacy, Grotesque Realism and Ottoman Historiography 6. NATO's Caps Part 3: Ekstasis 7. Europa Mythica 8. Hippopolis/Cynopolis Part 4: Hypostasis Notes