Offers an appraisal of the various postmodern and poststructural theories sweeping the discipline of international relations. Tracing the development, importation, and application of these epistemologies, the author develops a series of typologies for the scholar working in international relations.
D. S. L. Jarvis is a lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations, Faculty of Economics and Business, at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is coeditor of International Relations: Still an American Social Science? and editor of Postmodernism and Its Critics: International Relations and the Third Debate.