1. Stranger in a Strange Land -- 2. Contested Claims: The Uncertainty of Certainty -- 3. Cultural Genocide: The Dialectic of Struggle -- 4. The System and the Damage Done -- 5. Alternative/Counter-Culture: Coded Change -- 6. The Meaning of Dissent: From Grumble to Revolution -- 7. Emancipation and Coded (Dis)chord -- 8. The Intelligentsia -- 9. A Weak Utopia -- 10. The Politics of Unreason
Summary
"Cultural Politics in International Relations draws on a specific experience of an expired superpower, the former Soviet Union, to demonstrate how seemingly rigid systems can be undermined by internal pressure arising from a range of cultural sites. Questioning the authority of the discipline of international relations, in particular structural realism, to recognise the influence of varied social phenomena on possible outcomes, it demonstrates how seemingly insignificant acts propagated through music, humour and poetry can disturb official culture and initiate social change."--BOOK JACKET
