Ordering International Politics Identity, Crisis and Representational Force 1st Edition – PDF/EPUB Version Downloadable

How do states sustain international order during crises? Drawing on the political philosophy of Lyotard and through an empirical examination of the Anglo-American international order during the 1956 Suez Crisis, Bially Mattern demonstrates that states can (and do) use representational force–a forceful but non-physical form of power exercised through language–to stabilize international identity and in turn international order.