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1. Cinematic Geopolitics

   By Michael J. Shapiro

   Series: Global Horizons

   In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon. In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic"...

   Published October 7th 2008 by Routledge
2. Sovereign Lives

   Power in Global Politics

   Edited by Jenny Edkins, Michael J. Shapiro, Veronique Pin-Fat

   For International Relations scholars, discussions of globalization inevitably turn to questions of sovereignty. How much control does a country have over its borders, people and economy? Where does that authority come from? Sovereign Lives explores these changes through reading of humanitarian...

   Published September 14th 2004 by Routledge
3. Methods and Nations

   Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject

   By Michael J. Shapiro

   Series: Global Horizons

   Methods and Nations critiques one of the primary deployments of twentieth-century social science: comparative politics whose major focus has been "nation-building" in the "Third World," often attempting to universalize and render self-evident its own practices. International relations theorists,...

   Published January 1st 2004 by Routledge
4. The Politics of Moralizing

   Edited by Jane Bennett, Michael J. Shapiro

   The Politics of Moralizing issues a stern warning about the risks of speaking, writing, and thinking in a manner too confident about one's own judgments and asks, "Can a clear line be drawn between dogmatism and simple certainty and indignation?" Bennett and Shapiro enter the debate by questioning...

   Published October 17th 2002 by Routledge