Post-Modern International Theory

Books and Monographs



Articles, Chapters, Review Essays, and Notes
(*=Refereed)

  • * "Globalizing Sympathy" (with G. R. Boynton), in Charles Arthur Willard, ed., Critical Problems in Argumentation: Selected Papers from the 13th Biennial Conference on Argumentation Sponsored by the American Forensic Association and National Communication Association, August 2003 (Washington DC: National Communication Association, 2005).
  • "Le post-réalisme après le 11 septembre" (with Robert Hariman), Etudes Internationales 35, 4 (December, 2004) (special issue on "La théorie internationale face au 11 septembre et ses conséquences. Perspectives libérales et critiques,"edited by Dario Battistella): 689-719.
  • "Metaphors, Politics, and World Politics," (with Christ'l de Landtsheer) in Metaphorical World Politics (Francis A. Beer and Christ'l de Landtsheer, eds.) (East Lansing MI: Michigan State University Press, 2004).
  • "Paths through the Minefields of Foreign Policy Space: Practical Reasoning in U.S. Senate Discourse about Cambodia," (with G. Robert Boynton) in Metaphorical World Politics (Francis A. Beer and Christ'l de Landtsheer, Eds.) (East Lansing MI: Michigan State University Press, 2004).
  • "Terrorist Rhetorics, Rhetorics of Democracy, and Worlds of Meaning" in Gerard Hauser and Amy Grim, Eds. Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement. Lawrence Erlbaum (Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003): 73-74.
  • "Metaphorical Politics: Mobilization or Tranquilization" (with Christ'l de Landtsheer) in F. H. van Eemeren, R. Grootendorst, J. A. Blair, and C. A.Willard (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (Amsterdam: SIC STAT, 1999): 42-48.
  • * "Memetic Meanings," Journal of Memetics 3, 1 (1999).
  • "What Would Be Prudent: Forms of Reasoning in World Politics" (with Robert Hariman) in Stuart S. Nagel, Ed., Policy Analysis Methods (Commack NY: Nova Science Publishers, 1999): 205-230.
  • * "What Would Be Prudent?" (with Robert Hariman) Rhetoric and Public Affairs (1998) 1, 3 (Fall): 299-330.
  • * "Rhetorical Realism: Deconstructing Waltz," (with Robert Hariman) in International Studies Notes (1998) 23, 3 (Fall): 1-3.
  • "Realism and Rhetoric in International Relations" (with Robert Hariman) in Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations, Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman, Eds. (East Lansing MI: Michigan State University Press: 1996): 1-30.
  • "Strategic Intelligence and Discursive Realities" (with Robert Hariman) in Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations, Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman, Eds. (East Lansing MI: Michigan State University Press: 1996): 387-414.
  • "Realistic Rhetoric but not Realism: A Senatorial Conversation on Cambodia" (with G. R. Boynton) in Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations, Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman, Eds. (East Lansing MI: Michigan State University Press: 1996): 369-383.
  • "Body, Mind, and Soul in the Gulf War Debate," (with Barry J. Balleck) in Mary Stuckey, ed., The Theory and Practice of Political Communication Research (SUNY Press, 1996): 159-176. Reprinted in Meanings of War and Peace. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001), pp. 93-105.
  • "Post-Realism, Just War, and the Gulf War Debate" (with Robert Hariman) in Sally Jackson, ed., Argumentation and Values: Proceedings of the Ninth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation (Annandale VA, Speech Communication Association, 1995): 493-497. Reprinted in Ofer Feldman and Christ'l de Landtsheer, Eds., Politically Speaking: A Worldwide Examination of Language Use in the Public Sphere (Westport CT, Praeger, 1998), pp. 184-193; Meanings of War and Peace. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001), pp. 83-92.
  • * "Realist/Idealist Texts: Psychometry and Semantics" (with Barry J. Balleck) Peace Psychology Review 1, 1 (Spring, 1994) 38-44.
  • * "Words of Reason" Political Communication 11 (Summer, 1994): 185-201. Reprinted in Meanings of War and Peace. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001), pp. 41-57.
  • * "Validities: A Political Science Perspective" Social Epistemology 7, 1 (1993): 85-105. Reprinted in Meanings of War and Peace. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001), pp. 58-78.
  • "From Realism to Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations" (with Robert Hariman), in Raymie E. McKerrow, ed., Argument and the Postmodern Challenge: Proceedings of the Eighth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation (Annandale VA: Speech Communication Association, November 1993): 260-266.
  • * "Reflections on Collective Consciousness: The Persian Gulf Debate," Normal Science and Vedic Science 5, 2 (1992): 7-13.
  • "Peace, Violence, and Ideology," in Manuel J. Pelaez, ed. Papers in Comparative Political Science (Estudios de Sciencia politica comparada: trabajos en homenaje a Ferran Valls i Taberner con occasion del centanario de su nacimiento). (Malaga, Spain: Universidad de Malaga, 1990) pp. 4613-4625.
  • * "Games and Metaphors," Journal of Conflict Resolution 30, 1 (March) 1986: 171-191.
  • "Research as Action," Peace News 7 (January) 1983: 15-16. Reprinted in Fourth World News, 1 (March) 1983: 6.
  • * "War and Disease," Notes, Center for Biopolitical Research, Northern Illinois University, April/July, 1981.


    Public Media



    Teaching Materials

    • Politics and the Language of International Development (Video) (Boulder CO: University of Colorado).


    Book Reviews



    Conference Papers

    • "International Communication and Global Community: the World View of CNN WorldView" (with G. R. Boynton), International Studies Association, Minneapolis, 1998; American Political Science Association, Boston MA, 1998.
    • "Realistic Foreign Policy Communication: A U.S. Senatorial Conversation on Cambodia" (with G. R. Boynton), International Peace Research Association, Kyoto, Japan, 1992.


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