Revolutionaries and Global Politics

War Machines from the Bolsheviks to ISIS

Ondrej Ditrych, Jakub Zhora, Jan Daniel

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Edinburgh University Press
11 March 2025

Social & political philosophy; Anarchism; Terrorism, armed struggle

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.

Edited by: Ondrej Ditrych, Jakub Zhora, Jan Daniel
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399505567
ISBN 10: 1399505564
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 11 March 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 Research Fellow at the UNCE VITRI Center of Excellence at Charles University. 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