Ondrej Ditrych
Biographic Data
| ID | 194103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ondrej Ditrych |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ondrej |
| FAMILY NAME | Ditrych |
| SIGNATURE | DITRYCH O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of International Relations Prague |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8337-8097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Revolutionaries and Global Politics: War Machines from the Bolsheviks to Isis
Revolutionaries and Global Politics: War Machines from the Bolsheviks to Isis
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 employing it for a discussion of hybridity in…
Conclusion: Recalling the Hybrid Revolutionary
Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community
This article situates recent initiatives to deepen security and defence cooperation in the European Union in the historical perspective. It proposes a model of constitutive relationship between the process of change in a security community and the formation of a transnational defence industry community of practice which yields positive feedback (‘productive returns’) to the security community as a broader assemblage within which it was constitute…
Große Mächte, kleine Welt: Die USA, Russland und China in Tschechiens Außenpolitik. The United States, Russia, and China in Czech Foreign Policy
The Czech Republic’s relationship with the European outside world oscillates between rapprochement and isolation, a desire for recognition and a fear of losing its identity. With the “return to Europe,” the sense of facing constant threats seemed to have been overcome. Yet, fear returned - and with it the search for powerful allies. For some, this was to be the United States. But their slow withdrawal from Europe is fuelling a sense of forsakenne…
The logic of strategic inhumanity and the cost of publicism
The global drug prohibition regime: Prospects for stability and change in an increasingly less prohibitionist world
Forget Hobbes
The Harm in Harmel: What the Transatlantic Alliance Needs is a New Containment
Tracing the Discourses of Terrorism: Identity, Genealogy and State
1. Introduction 2. Concerning Method 3. Overture: One World, Many Terrorisms 4. Emergence/y (1930s) 5. Division (1970s) 6. Enclosure (2000s) 7. Power and Knowledge 8. Conclusion: The Global Terrorism Dispositif and Its Critique
Tracing the Discourses of Terrorism
Ditrych's analysis in particular explores the constitutive role of the present discourse on the global power apparatus (dispositif) in which the concept of terrorism strategically orients a broad set of practices – punishment, discipline and surveillance – that bear on states, populations and individual human bodies. Instead of creating a new theory of the terrorist, the book historicizes terrorism, highlighting the invisible practices of power a…
Security community: A future for a troubled concept
This article offers first a brief commentary on Karl Deutsch and his collaborators' development of the concept of security community, before moving to a critical review of constructivist attempts by Adler, Barnett and their colleagues at resurrecting it. The article makes the case that while the serious effort to give security community a new life is laudable, the appropriation also renders the concept at once theoretically complex and methodolog…
International terrorism” in the League of Nations and the contemporary terrorism dispositif
This article recovers states’ discursive practices regarding “international terrorism” in the 1930s. It examines the internal conditions of the discourse of terrorism among states in this period with a particular focus on its conspiratorial elements and suggests external conditions for this discourse’s emergence and order. Furthermore, it points to continuities and discontinuities between the 1930s discursive series and the constituent discursive…
From discourse to dispositif: States and terrorism between Marseille and 9/11
This article is a historical study of how states have articulated statements about terrorism since the 1930s; under what conditions these statements have been articulated; and what effects the discourses made up of these statements have had on global politics. This includes the constitutive role of the present discourse on what is posited as a terrorism dispositif. The inquiry is inspired by Foucault’s historical method, and comprises the descrip…
Understanding Havel
The presented article tries to make sense of Václav Havel, a man of many qualities and professions yet not a professional in the conventional sense of the word. The aim is to offer deeper insight into diverse cognitive elements which formed Havel’s political reasoning and attitudes. The idea is to provide an alternative interpretation and get beyond the customary explanations expressed through traditional IR language seeing Havel as a dissident i…
Georgia: A state of flux
An endless war: The Russian-Chechen conflict in perspective
The Internationalisation of the Russian–Chechen Conflict: Myths and Reality
The article provides a critical reading of various related discourses, depicting the political motives behind the conflict in Chechnya as a battlefield of the global jihad. These narratives have sought to present the involvement of external Islamist groups as a major factor in the conflict, and to portray many of the main groups within Chechnya as subscribing to a jihadist ideology. The authors suggest an alternative narrative focusing on the sig…
Czech Reflections on the Chechen Conflict: From Morality to Mainstream
World opinion sees Chechnya as a case of Islamic terrorism, but Czech elites have persistently condemned Russia's human rights violations there
I ran and A zerbaijan: A C ontested N eighborhood
From discourse to dispositif: States and terrorism between Marseille and 9/11
This article is a historical study of how states have articulated statements about terrorism since the 1930s; under what conditions these statements have been articulated; and what effects the discourses made up of these statements have had on global politics. This includes the constitutive role of the present discourse on what is posited as a terrorism dispositif. The inquiry is inspired by Foucault’s historical method, and comprises the descrip…
The Internationalisation of the Russian–Chechen Conflict: Myths and Reality
The article provides a critical reading of various related discourses, depicting the political motives behind the conflict in Chechnya as a battlefield of the global jihad. These narratives have sought to present the involvement of external Islamist groups as a major factor in the conflict, and to portray many of the main groups within Chechnya as subscribing to a jihadist ideology. The authors suggest an alternative narrative focusing on the sig…
Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community
This article situates recent initiatives to deepen security and defence cooperation in the European Union in the historical perspective. It proposes a model of constitutive relationship between the process of change in a security community and the formation of a transnational defence industry community of practice which yields positive feedback (‘productive returns’) to the security community as a broader assemblage within which it was constitute…
Security community: A future for a troubled concept
This article offers first a brief commentary on Karl Deutsch and his collaborators' development of the concept of security community, before moving to a critical review of constructivist attempts by Adler, Barnett and their colleagues at resurrecting it. The article makes the case that while the serious effort to give security community a new life is laudable, the appropriation also renders the concept at once theoretically complex and methodolog…
Understanding Havel
The presented article tries to make sense of Václav Havel, a man of many qualities and professions yet not a professional in the conventional sense of the word. The aim is to offer deeper insight into diverse cognitive elements which formed Havel’s political reasoning and attitudes. The idea is to provide an alternative interpretation and get beyond the customary explanations expressed through traditional IR language seeing Havel as a dissident i…
International terrorism” in the League of Nations and the contemporary terrorism dispositif
This article recovers states’ discursive practices regarding “international terrorism” in the 1930s. It examines the internal conditions of the discourse of terrorism among states in this period with a particular focus on its conspiratorial elements and suggests external conditions for this discourse’s emergence and order. Furthermore, it points to continuities and discontinuities between the 1930s discursive series and the constituent discursive…
I ran and A zerbaijan: A C ontested N eighborhood
Czech Reflections on the Chechen Conflict: From Morality to Mainstream
World opinion sees Chechnya as a case of Islamic terrorism, but Czech elites have persistently condemned Russia's human rights violations there
I ran and A zerbaijan: A C ontested N eighborhood
The Internationalisation of the Russian–Chechen Conflict: Myths and Reality
The article provides a critical reading of various related discourses, depicting the political motives behind the conflict in Chechnya as a battlefield of the global jihad. These narratives have sought to present the involvement of external Islamist groups as a major factor in the conflict, and to portray many of the main groups within Chechnya as subscribing to a jihadist ideology. The authors suggest an alternative narrative focusing on the sig…
An endless war: The Russian-Chechen conflict in perspective
Georgia: A state of flux
International terrorism” in the League of Nations and the contemporary terrorism dispositif
This article recovers states’ discursive practices regarding “international terrorism” in the 1930s. It examines the internal conditions of the discourse of terrorism among states in this period with a particular focus on its conspiratorial elements and suggests external conditions for this discourse’s emergence and order. Furthermore, it points to continuities and discontinuities between the 1930s discursive series and the constituent discursive…
From discourse to dispositif: States and terrorism between Marseille and 9/11
This article is a historical study of how states have articulated statements about terrorism since the 1930s; under what conditions these statements have been articulated; and what effects the discourses made up of these statements have had on global politics. This includes the constitutive role of the present discourse on what is posited as a terrorism dispositif. The inquiry is inspired by Foucault’s historical method, and comprises the descrip…
Understanding Havel
The presented article tries to make sense of Václav Havel, a man of many qualities and professions yet not a professional in the conventional sense of the word. The aim is to offer deeper insight into diverse cognitive elements which formed Havel’s political reasoning and attitudes. The idea is to provide an alternative interpretation and get beyond the customary explanations expressed through traditional IR language seeing Havel as a dissident i…
Tracing the Discourses of Terrorism: Identity, Genealogy and State
1. Introduction 2. Concerning Method 3. Overture: One World, Many Terrorisms 4. Emergence/y (1930s) 5. Division (1970s) 6. Enclosure (2000s) 7. Power and Knowledge 8. Conclusion: The Global Terrorism Dispositif and Its Critique
Tracing the Discourses of Terrorism
Ditrych's analysis in particular explores the constitutive role of the present discourse on the global power apparatus (dispositif) in which the concept of terrorism strategically orients a broad set of practices – punishment, discipline and surveillance – that bear on states, populations and individual human bodies. Instead of creating a new theory of the terrorist, the book historicizes terrorism, highlighting the invisible practices of power a…
Security community: A future for a troubled concept
This article offers first a brief commentary on Karl Deutsch and his collaborators' development of the concept of security community, before moving to a critical review of constructivist attempts by Adler, Barnett and their colleagues at resurrecting it. The article makes the case that while the serious effort to give security community a new life is laudable, the appropriation also renders the concept at once theoretically complex and methodolog…
The Harm in Harmel: What the Transatlantic Alliance Needs is a New Containment
Forget Hobbes
The global drug prohibition regime: Prospects for stability and change in an increasingly less prohibitionist world
The logic of strategic inhumanity and the cost of publicism
Große Mächte, kleine Welt: Die USA, Russland und China in Tschechiens Außenpolitik. The United States, Russia, and China in Czech Foreign Policy
The Czech Republic’s relationship with the European outside world oscillates between rapprochement and isolation, a desire for recognition and a fear of losing its identity. With the “return to Europe,” the sense of facing constant threats seemed to have been overcome. Yet, fear returned - and with it the search for powerful allies. For some, this was to be the United States. But their slow withdrawal from Europe is fuelling a sense of forsakenne…
Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community
This article situates recent initiatives to deepen security and defence cooperation in the European Union in the historical perspective. It proposes a model of constitutive relationship between the process of change in a security community and the formation of a transnational defence industry community of practice which yields positive feedback (‘productive returns’) to the security community as a broader assemblage within which it was constitute…
Revolutionaries and Global Politics: War Machines from the Bolsheviks to Isis
Revolutionaries and Global Politics: War Machines from the Bolsheviks to Isis
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 employing it for a discussion of hybridity in…
Conclusion: Recalling the Hybrid Revolutionary
Law (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · International relations (5 works)