Imagining Disarmament, Enchanting International Relations Matthew Breay Bolton 3030177165 9783030177164

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• ISBN 10: 3030177165
• ISBN 13: 9783030177164
• Author: Matthew Breay Bolton

This book explores the global politics of disarmament through emerging international relations (IR) theories of discourse and imagination. Each chapter reflects on an aspect of contemporary activism on weapons through an analogous story from literary tradition. Shahrazade, convenor of the 1001 Nights, offers a potent metaphor for the humanitarian advocacy seeking to moderate the behaviour of violent people. The author reads Don Quixote in Cambodia’s minefields, reflects on Lysistrata at Greenham Common and considers how tropes in The Tempest were enrolled in both Pacific nuclear testing and efforts to resist it. The book draws on ethnographic fieldwork in communities affected by weapons and disarmament advocacy at the UN and calls for a re-enchantment of IR, alive to affect, ritual and myth.

Table of contents:

Act 1. Shahrazad: Disarming Charm

Act 2. Quixote: Tilting at Landmines

Act 3. Lysistrata: Meaningful Human Control

Act 4. Caliban and the Nuclear Ban

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