Michael Dillon is Emeritus Professor of International Politics at the University of Lancaster, UK

This book is the first full-length manuscript to draw on the the insights and techniques of deconstruction to analyse international relations. Influenced primarily by Derrida, it critiques the cornerstones of international relations such as modernity, the state, the subject, security and ethics and justice.

1. Introduction 2. Modernity, Security and Deterrence 3. Signifying Power 4. The Scandal of the Refugee 5. The Sovereign and the Stranger 6. Another Justice 7. Deconstructing the Military Body 8. Transformation 9. Violence, the Messianic and the Tragic 10. Lethal Freedom. Divine Violence and the Machiavellian Moment