Revolutionaries and Global Politics

Provides a novel perspective on the concept and practice of revolutionary movement as an international phenomenon Draws on Deleuze and Guattari's war machine and understanding of hybridity Introduces the concept of hybrid revolutionaries as movements that seek to overturn the existing global order, yet draw on and even reproduce some of its founding principles Advances current theoretical and practical debates on the state system, revolution and violence Deploys the conceptual framework to situate ISIS in larger histories of discontents of the international order 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.

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 Kušić) 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