Critical Practices in International Theory

James Der Derian is Research Professor of International Studies at Brown University, where he directs the Innovating Global Security and Global Media Project at the Watson Institute for International Studies. He has produced numerous books, articles, and documentaries on diplomacy, war, media, and technology, including, most recently, Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network (Routledge, 2009)

"Der Derian is perhaps the most creative analyst -- the one with the most new insight -- in the entire field of international security." Craig N Murphy, Wellesley College, USA "James Der Derian is a pioneer. He has over the last twenty years expanded the frontiers of International Relations in creative ways. This path, often fiercely contested by those he challenged, is chartered beautifully in this important collection of his essays, with their incisive political analyses. Reading them makes you aware how many of us are in his debt."David Campbell, University of Durham, UK

• Introduction 1. Mediating Estrangement: A Theory for Diplomacy Review of International Studies 2. Arms, Hostages and the Importance of Shredding in Earnest: Reading the National Security Culture 3. The (S)pace of International Relations: Simulation, Surveillance and Speed 4. Narco-Terrorism at Home and Abroad 5. The Terrorist Discourse: Signs, States, and Systems of Global Political Violence 6. S/N: International Theory, Balkanisation, and the New World Order 7. Cyberwar, Videogames, and the Gulf War Syndrome 8. Act IV: Fathers (and Sons), Mother Courage (and Her Children), and the Dog, the Cave and the Beef 9. The Value of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche and Baudrillard 10. The C.I.A., Hollywood, and Sovereign Conspiracies 11. Great Men, Monumental History, and Not-So-Grand Theory: A Meta-Review of Henry Kissinger’s Diplomacy 12. Post-Theory: The Eternal Return of Ethics in International Relations 13. Cyber-Deterrence 14. Global Swarming, Virtual Security, and Bosnia 15. The Simulation Triangle 16. Virtuous War and Hollywood 17. Virtuous War/Virtual Theory 18. The Illusion of a Grand Strategy 19. In Terrorem: Before and After 9/11 20. The Question of Information Technology in International Relations 21. Hedley Bull and the Case for a Post-Classical Approach