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Empire and International Order presents a critical examination of how useful the concept of empire is for understanding varieties of international order across time and place. Original contributions from an international team of upcoming and distinguished scholars analyse a wealth of theoretical approaches alongside contemporary themes enabling the reader to understand the desire to shift the ground of analysis away from the current literature of immediate issue of the US towards the disciplines of international relations, politics, and political/sociological theory.

A theoretical introduction : space, centers, and margins / Noel Parker -- Delimitation : the denigration of boundaries in the political thought of late modernity / Sergei Prosorov -- Power and marginality in the international system : an historical perspective / Pertti Joenniemmi, Noel Parker -- Exploiting marginality : the case of Russia / Maxine David -- An encounter of two marginalities : EU-Russia trans-border relations in Russian discourse / Andrey S. Makarychev -- Denmark's and Britain's marginality strategies compared / Noel Parker -- Europe and a globalizing USA : political ideals projected and counter-projected / Noel Parker -- Gibraltar, Jerusalem, Kaliningrad : peripherality, marginality, hybridity / Chris Browning, Pertti Joenniemi -- Notions of 'Europe'. Where does Europe's southern margin lie? / Michelle Pace -- The ritual of listening to foreigner : appropriating geopolitics in Central Europe / Merje Kuus -- Boundary-making in Europe's southeastern margin : Balkan/Europe discourse in Croatia and Slovenia / Nicole Lindstrom -- Variable geometries : institutions, power, and ideas in Turkey's European integration process / Fabrizio Tassinari -- Conclusion / Noel Parker

While concepts of a postinternational politics properly highlight the constant variance of entities in play in international relations, the approach lacks an ontology that shows how such an unstable variety of types of players can coexist in a common field in the first place. This article draws upon Deleuze's philosophy to set out an ontology in which the continual reformulation of entities in play in "postinternational" society can be grasped. This entails a strategic shift from speaking about the "borders" between sovereign states to referring instead to the "margins" between a plethora of entities that are ever open to modifications of identity. The concept of the margin possesses a much wider reach than borders, and focuses continual attention on the meetings and interactions between a range of indeterminate entities whose interactions may determine both themselves and the types of entity that are in play.