Theater of State - 9780810141117

Theater of StateA Dramaturgy of the United Nations\nAuthor(s): James Ball\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Northwestern University Press, United States\nImprint: Northwestern University Press\nISBN-13: 9780810141117, 978-0810141117\nSynopsis\nTheater of State is an innovative study of performance in international relations. It asks why states and their representatives come to the United Nations to perform for a global Audience, and how those Audiences in turn may intervene in the spectacle of global politics.\n A study of the lived experience of spectacular politics on the world stage, Theater of State looks at key spaces in which global politics play out in debating forums of the UN, the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and peacekeeping operations in Africa and the Middle East, as well as at a variety of related media Productions (plays, concerts, television programs, and so on). It argues for recognizing that culture and politics form a unified field organized by the theatr.