Poststructuralist Theories of International Relations
Critical theory, deconstruction and critique as repetition; the problematisation of the inside/outside boundary that founds the discipline.
International Relations · PUC Minas
Cristiano
Garcia Mendes
Professor of International Relations — PUC Minas
Professor in the undergraduate and graduate programmes of the Department of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas). I study poststructuralist theories of International Relations, fragile states and private military companies.
Lines of research
Three axes organise the work: poststructuralist theory of International Relations, fragile states and private military companies.
Fragile States
How state fragility is discursively constructed in foreign policy — metaphors, sovereignty and narratives of exclusion.
Private Military Companies
The privatisation of violence, mercenarism and the necropower exercised by military companies in fragile states and peace operations.
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