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The Ashgate research companion to modern theory, modern power, world politics : critical
investigations / edited by Scott G Nelson and Nevzat Soguk.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7907-3 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9798-5 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-4724-0265-3
(epub) 1. International relations--Philosophy. 2. World politics--Philosophy. I. Nelson, Scott G.
II. Soguk, Nevzat. III. Title: Research companion to modern theory, modern power, world politics.
JZ1305.A8 2015
327.101--dc23
2015011064
ISBN 978-0-7546-7907-3 (hbk)
Richard K. Ashley is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of The Political Economy of War and Peace: The Sino-Soviet-American Triangle and the Modern Security Problematique . He is also the author of many articles on international relations theory that have appeared in such journals as Alternatives, international organization, International Studies Quarterly , and Millennium .
Mohammed A. Bamyeh is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His research and teaching interests include cultural and political globalization, Islamic studies, culture and revolution, anarchism, civil society, and comparative social theory. His current research projects include revolutionary movements in the Arab World, as well as the idea of tradition. He is the author of, among other works, The ends of Globalization (2000), of Death and Dominion (2007), and Anarchy as order (2009).
Richard Beardsworth is Chair in International Politics, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. Having worked extensively in continental political philosophy, his interests lie now in normative international theory and global political responsibility. His most recent book is Cosmopolitanism and International Relations Theory , and he is associate editor of International Relations .
Franois Debrix is Director of the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) and Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Debrix researches social and political theory, international relations theory, critical geopolitics, and media and visual studies. He is the author, among other books, of Tabloid Terror: War, Culture, and Geopolitics (2008), and Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, Violence, and Horror in World Politics (2011). He is currently completing a manuscript on the politics and theory of horror and bodily dismemberment.
James Der Derian is Michael Hintze Chair of International Security at the University of Sydney, and producer of several documentaries and books, most recently, Project Z: The Final Global event and Critical Practices in International Theory .
Roxanne Lynn Doty is Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Her most recent book, The Law into Their own hands: immigration and the Politics of Exceptionalism , was published in 2009 and was awarded the Silver Book Award in 2010 by the Association of Borderland Studies. She has published in International Studies Quarterly, Millennium: European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Alternatives , and International Political Sociology . She serves on the editorial boards of International Political Sociology and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space .
Jake P. Greear recently earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University. He teaches environmental politics at the University of North Georgia. His research focuses on the theoretical foundations of environmental politics and the historical interplay between philosophy and material culture.
Nicholas J. Kiersey is Associate Professor in Political Science at Ohio University. His recent publications address Foucaults understanding of the place of economic thought in the globalization of liberal discourses of government, the place of affective labor in the popular culture of Irelands financial crisis, and left-wing convergence in the context of the Occupy movement. He recently co-edited the volume Battlestar Galactica and international Relations with Iver Neumann (2013). He is currently writing a book that explores the cultural political economy of the Irish financial crisis.
Peter Lenco teaches sociology at Laurentian University. His research interests include theories of world politics, process philosophy and its implications in international relations theory, the subject, and political sociology. He is the author of Deleuze and World Politics: Alterglobalizations and Nomad Science (2011), and is currently working on an assemblage theory analysis of political participation in the Peoples Republic of China.
Timothy W. Luke is University Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech. He also serves as Program Chair for Government and International Affairs for Virginia Techs School of Public and International Affairs in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. His research interests include modern cultural, social, and political theory as well as the workings of contemporary environmental movements, international politics, and material culture.