Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-170) and index.
Contents
National missile defence (NMD) and IR -- Michel Foucault and NMD -- Revisiting missile defence -- NMD : issues and debates -- NMD and foreign policy discourse -- NMD and "regimes of truth" -- NMD and the "everyday" -- Reflections on NMD and identity.
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Summary
Why adopt a poststructural lens for the reading of the military strategy of national missile defence (NMD)? No doubt, when contemplating an attack on US territory by intercontinental ballistic missiles, consulting Michel Foucault and critical international relations theory scholars may not seem the obvious route to take. The answer to this lies in another question: why has there been so much interest and continuous investment in NMD deployment when there is such ambiguity surrounding the status of threat to which it responds, controversy over its technological feasibility and concern about its.
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