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In recent years we have witnessed an increasing convergence of work in International Politics and Performance Studies around the troubled, and often troubling, relationship between politics and aesthetics. Whilst examination of political aesthetics, aesthetic politics, and politics of aesthetic practice has been central to research in both disciplines for some time, the emergence of a distinctive 'performative turn' in International Politics and a critical return to the centrality of politics and the concept of 'the political' in Performance Studies highlights the importance of investigating the productivity of bringing the methods and approaches of the two fields of enquiry into dialogue and mutual relation. Exploring a wide range of issues including rioting, youth-driven protests, border security practices and the significance of cultural awareness in war, this text provides an accessible and cutting edge survey of the intersection of international politics and performance examining issues surrounding the politics of appearance, image, event and place; and discusses the development and deployment of innovative critical and creative research methods, from auto-ethnography to site-specific theatre-making, from philosophical aesthetics to the aesthetic thought of new securities scenario-planning. The book's focus throughout is on the materiality of performance practices—on the politics of making, spectating, and participating in a variety of modes as political actors and audiences—whilst also seeking to explicate the performative dynamics of creative and critical thinking. Structured thematically and framed by a detailed introduction and conclusion, the focus is on producing a dialogue between contributors and providing an essential reference point in this developing field. This work is essential reading for students of politics and performance and will be of great interest to students and scholars of IR, performance studies and cultural studies. Edited by Adrian Kear.

BASED ON CONTEXT ANALYSIS OF TV NEWS COVERAGE AND THE NEWSPAPER "BILD," THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE VISIBILITY OF PARTIES, LEADERS AND ISSUES IN THE NEWS BEFORE THE 1998 ELECTION. ALTHOUGH THE PRIVATE TV CHANNELS DEVOTED MORE ATTENTION TO THE CAMPAIGN THAN THE PUBLIC TV CHANNELS THERE STILL WAS A STRONG SIMILARITY BETWEEN GERMAN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TV COVERAGE IN THE PREDOMINANTLY NEUTRAL OR DESCRIPTIVE COVERAGE OF POLITICIANS.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. Bureaucratizing World Politics -- 2. International Organizations as Bureaucracies -- 3. Expertise and Power at the International Monetary Fund -- 4. Defining Refugees and Voluntary Repatriation at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees -- 5. Genocide and the Peacekeeping Culture at the United Nations -- 6. The Legitimacy of an Expanding Global Bureaucracy -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

International monetary problems moved from the back pages to the front pages long ago, and yet, despite much attention, they continue to trouble national leaders, entrepreneurs, international officials and scholars, and to affect the average citizen. World payments imbalances and currency fluctuations have substantial domestic economic effects, give rise to protectionist pressures, put unwelcome heat on politicians, and raise fears that resulting governmental conflicts could unravel political-security relations. Thus, large and small nations meet in various fora, from bilateral sessions through the Group-of-Seven powers to the annual IMF conference, to negotiate proposed changes.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: once upon a time … -- Discourse analysis and the narrative turn -- Political elite, media narratives and the role of culture -- Structure of the book -- 1 Narrative analysis as an approach in IR -- The concept of narrative and a story of its travel -- Literary studies and narratology -- Narrative psychology and cognitive narratology -- Historical narratives -- Narrative analysis and constructivism in IR -- The construction of social reality and the notion of setting -- The constitution of identity and characterization -- The co-constitution of agent and structure and the role of emplotment -- Practical application of narrative analysis -- The consequences of and reasons for narratives -- Narrative consequences and the question of causality -- Reasons for narrative dominance and marginalization -- Romantic narratives -- Romantic settings -- Romantic characterization -- Romantic emplotment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 German narratives of the pirate in Somalia -- Romantic narratives of the pirate -- Historical romantic stories of the pirate -- The literary pirate -- The popular pirate -- German media narratives on piracy -- Setting -- Characterization -- Emplotment -- An alternative story: linking piracy and terrorism -- Similarities between piracy and terrorism -- Cooperation between pirates and terrorists -- The use of pirate tactics by terrorists -- Political piracy -- The marginalization of the 'terror-pirate' story -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 British narratives of the rebel in Libya -- Rebellion, revolution and romance -- The romantic Arab rebel? -- British media narratives on rebellion in Libya -- Setting -- Characterization -- Emplotment

International Relations scholars have vigorous theories to explain why international organizations (IOs) are created, but they have paid little attention to IO behavior and whether IOs actually do what their creators intend. This blind spot flows logically from the economic theories of organization that have dominated the study of international institutions and regimes. To recover the agency and autonomy of IOs, we offer a constructivist approach. Building on Max Weber's well-known analysis of bureaucracy, we argue that IOs are much more powerful than even neoliberals have argued, and that the same characteristics of bureaucracy that make IOs powerful can also make them prone to dysfunctional behavior. IOs are powerful because, like all bureaucracies, they make rules, and, in so doing, they create social knowledge. IOs deploy this knowledge in ways that define shared international tasks, create new categories of actors, form new interests for actors, and transfer new models of political organization around the world. However, the same normative valuation on impersonal rules that defines bureaucracies and makes them powerful in modern life can also make them unresponsive to their environments, obsessed with their own rules at the expense of primary missions, and ultimately produce inefficient and self-defeating behavior. Sociological and constructivist approaches thus allow us to expand the research agenda beyond IO creation and to ask important questions about the consequences of global bureaucratization and the effects of IOs in world politics.

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