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Author Bormann, Natalie.

Title National missile defence and the politics of US identity : a poststructural critique / Natalie Bormann.

Publication Info. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 176 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography 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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Subject Ballistic missile defenses -- United States.
Ballistic missile defenses.
United States.
United States -- Defenses.
Defenses.
Nationalism -- United States.
Nationalism.
United States -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
United States -- Foreign relations.
International relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Title National missile defense and the politics of US identity
Other Form: Print version: Bormann, Natalie. National missile defence and the politics of US identity. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave MacMillan, 2008 9780719074707 (DLC) 2009275099 (OCoLC)181601617
ISBN 9781847792075 electronic book
1847792073 electronic book
9780719074707
0719074703