Everyday Diplomacy: UKUSA Intelligence Cooperation and Geopolitical Assemblages

Geopolitical events and fascist machines: Trump, Brexit and the deterritorialisation of the West

“…Though its meaning has varied (Dunne 2004), the term Atlanticism has come to denote a sense of identity and community that territorialises the United States and other countries, primarily via the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), but also via security and intelligence cooperation (through the 'Five Eyes' alliance between the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand) (Dittmer 2015), and through ideological commitments to democratic governance and market capitalism. It is territorialising in the dual sense (De Landa 2006, p.12) of embodying a shared commitment both to territorial defence (through Article 5 of the NATO treaty) and more expansively to liberal nostrums concerning freedom and security.…”

Going Underground: Banal Nationalism and Subterranean Elements in Argentina’s Falklands/Malvinas Claim

“…Instead, they rely on particular assemblages of bodies, objects and performances that work to 'nationalise' and visualise the elemental to the nation's citizenry in ways that can be affective and, sometimes, contentious. 27 So, for instance, the use of creative, artistic, technical and scientific mapping by Argentina in the disputed waters of the South Atlantic, has served to remind their audience(s) of national territorial connections (with islands in the South Atlantic and Antarctica) 28 and boundaries, resource riches that lie under the seabed and nationally significant sites of memory that are grounded on the seabed (e.g. the Argentine Navy light cruiser, the ARA General Belgrano).…”

Liminality and the diplomacy of the British Overseas Territories: An assemblage approach

“…Larger apparatuses such as the state and the international political system are composed by similar processes (Legg 2009). This becoming-together of foreign policy elites and their states has profound impacts on both the micro-practices of foreign policy formation and on macro-scaled international affairs that are only now being explored empirically (Dittmer 2015;.…”

“…Drawing on different theoretical emphases, but arriving at a similar place, Dittmer (2015; adopts a Deleuzean approach to diplomacy, emphasising the affective potentials within diplomatic encounters. In conceptualizing states as assemblages, diplomatic encounters become understandable as second order assemblages bringing state bodies, materials, and objects into relation with one another in ways that establish new affective vectors and open up new potentials.…”