Chilton, P: Security Metaphors Cold War Discourse from Containment to Common House

Paul Chilton's sophisticated, documentary study of the origins and ending of the Cold War in Europe will help redefine many scholars' understanding of the relation between international theory and political-diplomatic practice. Without belittling either politics or history, its use of metaphorical and discourse analysis critically illuminates the humanistic foundations of 'scientific' Realist and Communitarian perspectives, and helps us assess their changing relevance for explaining European developments. This book doesn't just promise new insights from linguistically oriented international relations research-it delivers! Hayward R. Alker, Jr., John A. McCone Professor of International Relations at University of Southern California, and Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology)