Critical of IR focus on states, state behaviour, anarchy, sovereignty

Post-structuralism challenges how states have been constructed historically and conceptually in our politics, in particular the naturalisation of anarchy and sovereignty in how we think about international politics.

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Themes & Theories in International Relations
7. Representation, resistance, biopower
A. Post-structuralism
F. Identity and foreign policy
Critical of IR focus on states, state behaviour, anarchy, sovereignty
Construction of self/other also operates internally
Focus on dichotomous identities that value on over the other
Foreign policies constitute the identity of the self
Foreign policy actions = in part about reproducing who we think we are
No 'fundamental essences' to actors, entities assumed as given
Understanding the world depends on exclusion of identities/histories
Violence: via material & Ideational construction of boundaries
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