Special issue: Images and narratives in world politics

Examines the use of abstraction, science fiction, and myth and fantasy, in the study of international relations, including portrayals of nationalism, and war and peace; 15 articles. Contents: The aesthetic turn in international political theory, by Roland Bleiker; Art, abstraction and international relations, by Christine Sylvester; Techniques of abstraction, by Thaddeus Oliver; Will and sacrifice, by Anthony D. Smith; Sounds of nationhood, by Michael J. Shapiro; "Grab a phaser, Ambassador": diplomacy in Star Trek, by Iver B. Neumann; "Special circumstances", by Chris Brown; Cinema and ecopolitics: existence in the Jurassic Park, by Mark J. Lacy; Globalisation is science fiction, by Jutta Weldes; Global events, national security, and virtual theory, by James Der Derian; "High and just proceedings": notes towards an anthology of the Cold War, by Fred Halliday; Laughing matters: peace, democracy and the challenge of the comic narrative, by Louiza Odysseos; Compulsory viewing: concentration camp film and German re-education, by Susan L. Carruthers; Postal economies of the Orient, by Bülent Diken, Carsten Bagge Laustsen; Hippopolis/Cynopolis, by Costas M. Constantinou.