[ecrea] Herschinger, Eva: Constructing Global Enemies

> Herschinger, Eva (2011): Constructing Global Enemies.  Hegemony and 
> identity in international discourses on terrorism and drug 
> prohibition. Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 1. Aufl.
>
> Constructing Global Enemies asks how and why specific 
> interpretations of international terrorism and drug abuse have 
> become hegemonic at the global level. The book analyses the 
> international discourses on terrorism and drug prohibition and 
> compares efforts to counter both, not only from a contemporary but 
> also from a historical perspective.
>
> Utilising poststructuralist theory of the relationship between 
> hegemony and identity, Herschinger argues that hegemony is much more 
> than just the dominance of a single country in international life; 
> rather it is the emergence of a hegemonic order that can best be 
> understood as the production of a new collective identity. Offering 
> an in-depth discussion of the methodology of discourse analysis, the 
> book explores how such hegemonies emerge and persist in the field of 
> security. This serves to explain the widespread disagreement 
> regarding the fight against international terrorism as well as the 
> successful suppression of counter-hegemonic projects in the field of 
> international drug prohibition.
>
> Constructing Global Enemies will be of interest to students and 
> scholars of international relations and security studies.
>
> 1. Introduction 2. On Hegemony and Identity in International 
> Security Discourses 3. Opening the -Black Box': The Construction of 
> International Hegemonies 4. International Drug Prohibition: 
> Constructing the -Drug-Free World' 5. Writing the -War on Terror': 
> The Struggle of Hegemonic Projects 6. Comparing the -War on Drugs' 
> and the -War on Terror' 7. Conclusion. Appendix

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