Literature and international relations : stories in the art of diplomacy / Paul Sheeran.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Utopia and its discontents : power and morality -- Chivalry and honour : stories of supermen and terror(ists) -- The madness of reason : going sane is harder than you think -- Building worlds : forgotten homes and recovered lands -- Border flows : crossing the state line and getting caught -- The politics of unreasonable international relations : coded whispers in the corridors of chaos -- Listening to voices : whispers from the global home -- City-states : words and weapons in urban myths -- Out of this world : imperfect future(s), distorted pasts -- The final dance : the beginnings of stories.

Making a strong case for the relevance of literary production to understanding international relations, this persuasive volume highlights the potential rewards of developing a methodology to bring literature to bear on a discipline which has tended to neglect fictional sources.

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