DECONSTRUCTING THE DOMESTIC/INTERNATIONAL DICHOTOMY

In recent years, an ongoing debate is taking place in International Relations theory (IR), contesting the centrality of the state and pointing out to the increasingly problematic nature of the foundational categories of the state and the domestic/international boundary upon which the modern scholarly discipline of IR depends. One of the most powerful critique of the mainstream of IR theory comes from poststructuralism. Based on the domestic/international dichotomy, this paper examines how certain traditional concepts like security, state, sovereignty are addressed by the poststructuralist approach, and also the implications this approach has on our own understanding of the political in the contemporary international contex