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Generalising the international

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2005

JENNY EDKINS  and
MAJA ZEHFUSS
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Abstract

Ironically, since 11 September 2001, world politics seems to have taken a turn towards certainty. This article is an intervention that demonstrates how the illusion of the sovereign state in an insecure and anarchic international system is sustained and how it might be challenged. It does so through a Derridean analysis of Hedley Bull's The Anarchical Society. The article examines how International Relations (IR) thinking works; it teases out the implications of our reading of Bull's work and proposes that what we call generalising the international could lead to an alternative analysis of world politics, one that retains an openness to the future and to politics.

Type
Research Article
Information
Review of International Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , July 2005 , pp. 451 - 472
Copyright
© 2005 British International Studies Association

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