Understanding the world depends on exclusion of identities/histories

Inclusions and exclusions give meaning to our identity: how we understand the world, its events, problems, actors and so on, depend on the marginalisation and exclusion of other identities and histories. They do not exist outside these self-other constructions.

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Themes & Theories in International Relations
7. Representation, resistance, biopower
A. Post-structuralism
F. Identity and foreign policy
Understanding the world depends on exclusion of identities/histories
Construction of self/other also operates internally
Critical of IR focus on states, state behaviour, anarchy, sovereignty
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
Violence: via material & Ideational construction of boundaries
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