The book as a whole follows a double thread: offering a series of critical-theoretical commentaries on geopolitical events from the Kosovan conflict to the Iraq war, combined with a sustained analysis of the political thought of Jacques Derrida as it appears in his writing since Specters of Marx.

Martin McQuillan is Professor of Cultural Theory and Analysis at the University of Leeds. His recent publications include The Politics of Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy (2007) and Deconstruction Reading Politics (2008).

Introduction: Deconstruction after 9/11 Chapter 1: Wars and Rumours of Wars Chapter 2: The Eternal Battle for the Domination of the World, or, Forget Kosovo Chapter 3: Tele-Techno-Theology Chapter 4: Extraordinary Rendition: Derrida and Vietnam Chapter 5: Derrida and Policy: is deconstruction really a social science? Chapter 6: Spectres of Poujade: Naomi Klein and the New International Chapter 7: Promises, Promises (This is also why...) Chapter 8: Hungary in Deconstruction Chapter 9: Enosis, or, 'The Sovereignty of Cyprus' Chapter 10: 'The Last Jewish Intellectual': Edward Said and the Deconstruction of Palestine Epilogue: Philosophy and War