Who should conduct negotiations with 'Aliens'? Taking lessons from previous contacts: The invasion

What is it about?

The postmodern/poststructuralist approach has been criticised by mainstream approaches for lacking in realism and for not representing any useful application within the discipline of International Relations. On the contrary, this paper demonstrates that the postmodern approach brings realities ignored or repressed by mainstream approaches back onto the agenda of International Relations. Due to the blurring of boundaries between "politics" and "the political", language, discourse and ideology are closed off to criticism and problematization. The postmodern approach, however, opens room for these issues to be held comprehensively. Although they are considered postmodern thinkers due to the era in which they lived, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari are not usually brought into the discipline of International Relations. The two thinkers' approach to language, discourse and ideology will be deployed as the tool of analysis in this paper. In this study, by deploying Deleuze's and Guattari's philosophy, one of the most important questions on the agenda of the discipline of International Relations will be dealt with, which is: "Who should conduct negotiations with 'aliens'?"

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