Revolutionaries and Global Politics: War Machines from the Bolsheviks to Isis - Hardcover

by Ondrej Ditrych (Editor), Jakub Záhora (Editor), Jan Daniel (Editor)

This is a book about discontents of the global order. Building on the innovative reading of ISIS as an international revolutionary actor, it explores the movement's everyday political practices and confronts them with other global revolutionaries to arrive at a novel understanding of revolutionary agency in global politics. Benefiting in particular from Deleuze and Guattari's notion of war machine and understanding of hybridity, the book shows how modern revolutionaries seek to disrupt the existing Westphalian order of modern states, yet are inevitably entangled with it and even reproduce in their conduct its founding principles. Including discussions on movements ranging from the Bolsheviks and Palestinian revolutionary groups to Khomeinists, to insurgents in Iraq and ISIS, the book pushes forward debates informed by critical social theory of revolution, violence, resistance and global order.

Author Biography

Ondrej Ditrych is the Director of the Institute of International Relations Prague, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences. He is the author of Tracing the Discourse of Terrorism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Jakub Záhora is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the Institute of Political Studies, Charles University, where he also worked as a Lecturer. He is Co-Editor (with Katarina Kusic) of Fieldwork as Failure (E-IR, 2020).

Jan Daniel is a Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. He previously worked as a Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute of Political Studies, Charles University