Competing Metaphors for International Relations - Jungle Or Playground?

This book examines how the thinking towards international relations of political leaders, researchers, the media and the public is fundamentally metaphorical in nature: the abstract and far away constantly made concrete and familiar through the imaginative rationality of metaphors. It delves into ten competing structural metaphors: international relations as natural selection, as family dynamics, as balancing operations, as building and constructing, as games and play, as business and trade, as journeys and paths, as musical performances, as health or sickness and as puzzles and riddles. Drawing attention to the important role of metaphors in grasping this field and providing explanations for its events and motives for its actors, this study will appeal to scholars and students of International Relations and World Politics. For experts on metaphor theory or cognitive linguistics, this book will offer practical examples and speculate on the concrete consequences of adopting different metaphorical schemes.

Product details

• Authors: Riikka Kuusisto, Kuusisto Riikka
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032987989
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3298798-9
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: New International Relations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Political science & theory, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Political campaigning & advertising, Political science and theory, Political campaigning and advertising, Peace studies & conflict resolution