DECONSTRUCTING INTERNATIONAL POLITICS MICHAEL DILLON Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 01:12 24 May 2016 INTERVENTIONS DECONSTRUCTING INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Michael Dillon is internationally regarded for his contributions by political philoso- phers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers more broadly. It is difficult to overrate his importance to the devel- opment of critical deconstructive approaches, not only in challenging traditional scholarship and addressing contemporary politics but in articulating new approaches and new thinking. This book draws together some of his key works and is framed by an introduc- tion written specially for the volume. It is the first full-length work to draw on the insights and techniques of deconstruction to analyse international relations. Influ- enced primarily by Derrida, it critiques the cornerstones of international relations such as modernity, the state, the subject, security and ethics and justice. This volume will provide an invaluable resource for teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels on traditional international relations courses and on the increasing number of specialised courses in critical approaches. Well designed and structured, it is accessible to the novice as well as challenging for the specialist. Michael Dillon is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Lancaster, UK. Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 01:12 24 May 2016 Interventions Edited by Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University and Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick ‘As Michel Foucault has famously stated, “knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting”. In this spirit the Edkins–Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits cutting-edge, critical works that challenge mainstream understandings in international rela- tions. It is the best place to contribute post-disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize and affirm the world recycled in IR’s traditional geopolitical imaginary.’ Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa, USA The series aims to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars work- ing within broad critical post-structural and post-colonial traditions have chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of important topics. Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, politics and other disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical and textual studies in international politics. Critical Theorists and Insuring Security International Relations Biopolitics, security and risk Edited by Jenny Edkins and Luis Lobo-Guerrero Nick Vaughan-Williams Foucault and International Ethics as Foreign Policy Relations Britain, the EU and the Other New critical engagements Dan Bulley Edited by Nicholas J. Kiersey and Doug Stokes Universality, Ethics and International Relations International Relations and A grammatical reading Non-Western Thought Véronique Pin-Fat Imperialism, colonialism and Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 01:12 24 May 2016 TheTimeoftheCity investigations of global Politics, philosophy, and genre modernity Michael J. Shapiro Edited by Robbie Shilliam Governing Sustainable Development Autobiographical International Partnership, protest and power Relations at the World Summit I, IR Carl Death Edited by Naeem Inayatullah War and Rape Re-Thinking International Law, memory and justice Relations Theory via Deconstruction Nicola Henry Badredine Arfi Madness in International Relations The New Violent Cartography Psychology, security and the Geo-analysis after the aesthetic turn global governance of Edited by Sam Okoth Opondo and mental health Michael J. Shapiro Alison Howell Insuring War Spatiality, Sovereignty and Sovereignty, security and risk Carl Schmitt Luis Lobo-Guerrero Geographies of the nomos International Relations, Edited by Stephen Legg Meaning and Mimesis Necati Polat Politics of Urbanism Seeing like a city The Postcolonial Subject Warren Magnusson Claiming politics/governing others in late modernity Beyond Biopolitics Vivienne Jabri Theory, violence and horror in world politics Foucault and the Politics of François Debrix and Alexander D. Barder Hearing Lauri Siisiäinen The Politics of Speed Capitalism, the state and war Volunteer Tourism in the in an accelerating world Global South Simon Glezos Giving back in neoliberal times Wanda Vrasti Politics and the Art of Cosmopolitan Government Commemoration in Europe Memorials to struggle in Citizens and entrepreneurs Latin America and Spain in postnational politics Katherine Hite Owen Parker Indian Foreign Policy Studies in the Trans-Disciplinary The politics of postcolonial Method identity After the aesthetic turn Priya Chacko Michael J. Shapiro Politics of the Event Alternative Accountabilities in Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 01:12 24 May 2016 Time, movement, becoming Global Politics Tom Lundborg The scars of violence Theorising Post-Conflict Brent J. Steele Reconciliation Celebrity Humanitarianism Agonism, restitution and repair The ideology of global charity Edited by Alexander Keller Hirsch Ilan Kapoor Europe’s Encounter with Islam Deconstructing International The secular and the postsecular Politics Luca Mavelli Michael Dillon Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 01:12 24 May 2016 DECONSTRUCTING INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Michael Dillon Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 01:12 24 May 2016 First published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business c 2013 Michael Dillon The right of Michael Dillon to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. 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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Dillon, Michael, 1945– Deconstructing international politics/Michael Dillon. p. cm. – (Interventions) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. International relations. 2. International relations–Philosophy. I. Title. JZ1242.D55 2013 327.101–dc23 2012022643 ISBN: 978-0-415-55669-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-55670-5 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-07945-4 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 01:12 24 May 2016 by Sunrise Setting Ltd. For Isaac and Charlotte With love from Papa (Lancaster, April 2012) Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 01:12 24 May 2016 Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 01:12 24 May 2016 Cuan Sound Gale blasted Yellow girt light, Settling sea. Frozen fisted round the amber cool glass. (July 1999) Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 01:12 24 May 2016 Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 01:12 24 May 2016 CONTENTS List of figures xiii Acknowledgements xiv 1Introduction 1 2 Modernity, security and deterrence 13 [‘Modernity, Discourse and Deterrence’, Current Research on Peace and Violence (electronic journal), 12(2) (1989), reprinted with kind permission of the publisher] 3 Signifying power 38 [‘Stat[e]ing Australia: Squid Jigging And The Masque Of State’, Alternatives (June 1992), with G. Everard, reprinted with kind permission of the publisher] Downloaded by [University of Defence] at 01:12 24 May 2016 4 The scandal of the refugee 65 [‘The Scandal of the Refugee’, in David Campbell and Michael J. Shapiro (eds), Global Ethics (Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota University Press, 1999), reprinted with kind permission of the publisher] xii Contents 5 The sovereign and the stranger 79 [‘The Sovereign and the Stranger’, in J. Edkins, N. Persram and V. Pin-Fat (eds), Sovereignty and Subjectivity (Boulder, CO: c Lynne Reiner Publishers, Inc., 1999)] 6 Another justice 95 [‘Another Justice’, Political Theory 27(2) (April 1999), reprinted with kind permission of the publisher] 7 Deconstructing the military body 112 [‘Intelligence Incarnate: Martial Corporeality in the Digital Age’, Body and Society 9(4) (November 2002), reprinted with kind permission of the publisher] 8 Transformation 134 [‘Force [of] Transformation’, in Madeleine Fagan, Ludovic Glorieux, Indira Hasimbegovic and Marie Suetsugu (eds), Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007), reprinted with kind permission of the publisher] 9 Violence, the messianic and the tragic 147 [‘Violences of the Messianic’, in Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher (eds), The Politics to Come: Power, Modernity and the Messianic (London: Continuum, 2010), reprinted with kind permission of the publisher] 10 Lethal freedom: divine violence and the Machiavellian moment 164 [‘Lethal Freedom: Divine Violence and the Machiavellian Moment’, Theory