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Introduction -- Mediating Estrangement: A Theory For Diplomacy -- Arms, Hostages, And The Importance Of Shredding In Earnest: Reading The National Security Culture (ii) -- The (s)pace Of International Relations: Simulation, Surveillance, And Speed -- Narco-terrorism At Home And Abroad -- The Terrorist Discourse: Signs, States, And Systems Of Global Political Violence -- S/n: International Theory, Balkanisation And The New World Order -- Cyberwar, Video Games, And The Gulf War Syndrome -- Act Iv: Fathers (and Sons), Mother Courage (and Her Children), And The Dog, The Cave, And The Beef -- The Value Of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche And Baudrillard -- The Cia, Hollywood, And Sovereign Conspiracies -- Great Men, Monumental History, And Not-so-grand Theory: A Meta-review Of Henry Kissinger's Diplomacy -- Post-theory: The Eternal Return Of Ethics In International Relations -- Cyber-deterrence -- Global Swarming, Virtual Security, And Bosnia -- The Simulation Triangle: In The Simulated Battlefields Of Tomorrow, War Has More In Common With Disneyworld Than The Pentagon -- Virtuous War And Hollywood: The Pentagon Wants What Hollywood's Got -- Virtuous War/virtual Theory -- The Illusion Of A Grand Strategy -- In Terrorem: Before And After 9/11 -- The Question Of Information Technology In International Relations -- Hedley Bull And The Case For A Post-classical Approach. James Der Derian. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.