Theater of State: A Dramaturgy of the United Nations

by James Ball

In this innovative study of performance in international relations, James R. Ball III asks why states and their representatives come to the United Nations to perform for a global audience and how those audiences may intervene in the spectacle of global politics. Theater of State looks at key spaces in which global politics play out: in debating forums of the UN, at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and in peacekeeping operations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810141124
• ISBN13: 9780810141124
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"