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Roland Bleiker’s article ‘The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory’ appeared in this journal in December 2001 as part of a special issue on ‘Images, Narratives and Sounds’.1 The article drew a line between mimetic approaches to international relations, which did not ‘pay enough attention to the relationship between the represented and its representation’, and aesthetic approaches, which directly engaged ‘the gap that inevitably opens up between a form of representation and the object it seeks to represent’.2 Arguing that ‘representation is always an act of power
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