Cynthia S Weber

International Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction

The new edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the main theories in international relations. It explains and analyzes each theory, allowing students to understand and critically engage with the myths and assumptions behind them. Each theory is illustrated using the example of a p...

'I am an American': Filming the Fear of Difference

From Samuel Huntington’s highly controversial Who Are We? to the urgent appeal of Naomi Wolf’s The End of America, Americans are increasingly reflecting on questions of democracy, multiculturalism, and national identity. Yet such debates take place largely at the level of elites, leaving out ordinar...

Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State and Symbolic Exchange (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)

In Simulating Sovereignty Cynthia Weber presents a critical analysis of the concept of sovereignty. Examining the justifications for intervention offered by the Concert of Europe, President Wilson's administration, and the Reagan-Bush administrations, the author combines critical international relat...

State Sovereignty as Social Construct (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)

State sovereignty is an inherently social construct. The modern state system is not based on some timeless principle of sovereignty, but on the production of a normative conception that links authority, territory, population, and recognition in a unique way, and in a particular place (the state). Th...

Imagining America at War: Morality, Politics and Film

Ten films released between 9/11 and Gulf War II reflect raging debates about US foreign policy and what it means to be an American. Tracing the portrayal of America in the films Pearl Harbor (World War II); We Were Soldiers and The Quiet American (the Vietnam War); Behind Enemy Lines, Black Hawk Do...

Faking It: U.S. Hegemony in a “Post-Phallic” Era

Forget Lady Liberty and Uncle Sam -- is the United States queer? Is the American body politic in drag? Cynthia Weber thinks so, at least in terms of recent American foreign relations with Cuba and other Caribbean countries. In Faking It, she queers heterosexual codes of sex and gender and offers a p...

International Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction

The third edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the main theories in international relations. It explains and analyzes each theory, allowing students to understand and critically engage with the myths and assumptions behind them. Each theory is illustrated using the example of a...

International Relations Theory: A Critical Introduction

The fourth edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the main theories in international relations. It explains and analyzes each theory, allowing students to understand and critically engage with the myths and assumptions behind them. Each theory is illustrated using the example of ...

Cynthia Weber

Cynthia Weber is a Professor of International Relations at Sussex University, UK, and co-Director of the media company Pato Productions. She is also an ...

Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State, and Symbolic Exchange

Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State, and Symbolic Exchange

State Sovereignty As Social Construct

Faking It: U.S. Hegemony in a "Post-Phallic" Era

Faking It: U.s Hegemony in a "Post-Phallic" Era

Rituals of Mediation: International Politics and Social Meaning

Rituals of Mediation: International Politics and Social Meaning