Description: The International Politics of Sex examines the ways in which sex, sexual shame, and stigma play into international power games, and analyses forms of image- and body-based activism used to resist heteronormative geopolitical projects. Using Russian state homophobia as a case study, Dean Cooper-Cunningham conceptualises the use of moralising policies in foreign policy practice. By studying Western responses to Russia's agenda, he shows how depictions of queerness have worked as strategies for resistance.
