Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Representation and Global Politics -- Global Authority and Hegemony -- Representational Practices -- Cases -- Outline of Chapters -- Part I. Colonialisms -- Introduction to Part I -- 2. To Be or Not to Be a Colonial Power -- Background -- Self-Affirmation: Constructing American Manhood -- The Western Bond -- Reading the Philippines -- Duality of Discourse: Equivalence, Deferral, and Instability -- 3. Getting the "Natives" to Work -- Background -- Disciplinary Technology and the Production of African Identity -- "I Work Therefore I Am": The Dangers of Idleness -- Authorizing Authority: The Double Bind of Oppositional Discourse -- Conclusion -- Part II. Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies -- Introduction to Part II -- 4. Precocious Children, Adolescent Nations -- Background -- Global Purpose and World Governance -- Naturalizing International Identities: World Citizens, Precocious Children, and International Delinquents -- Classification and Subject Positioning -- Deferring Sovereignty -- Conclusion -- 5. Resistance in Colonial Kenya -- Background -- Reason in the Service of Empire -- Madness, Immaturity, and Modernization: Representing Mau Mau -- Disciplinary Technologies and the Deferral of Democracy -- Conclusion -- Part III. Contemporary Encounters -- Introduction to Part III -- 6. Foreign Aid, Democracy, and Human Rights -- Foreign Aid and Democracy: Constructing the "Other" -- Foreign Aid and Human Rights: Constructing the "Self" -- Conclusion -- 7. Repetition and Variation: Academic Discourses on North-South Relations -- The Sovereignty of Sovereignty: "Real" States, "Quasi" States, and the "Third World" in International Relations Theory -- Reinscriptions: Benevolent Imperialism -- Theorizing the Inequality of Nations -- Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.

Books, Journals, Magazines, Newspapers -- British Government Documents -- United States Government Documents -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.