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07 March 2007
rethinking American identity
According to Campbell The Cold War was not about the Soviet Union or Soviet -American antagonism but about the American Identity shaping. Campbell argues that foreign threats have always formed constitutive elements of the US identity; he rejects the realist tenet that the Soviet Union presented an objective danger to American security and interests but it was a need for constructing a US identity.
This is a book that cannot be avoided in order to rethink realistic traditional distinctions between the ideal and the real, to discuss the practises that produce these practises and to show how unstable these systems of thoughts actually are, from the beginning of the US foundation until now.
07 March 2007
book: Gendering World Politics
I find this book crucial in focusing the role of women and gender in the study and practise of international relations. Mainstrean Ir theories normally look at states and its decisionmakers as central actors while feminists stress on particularly marginalized and disenpowered populations in the era of globalization.
A must for all who seek new ways to think about and understand world politics.