Brothers in Arms: ?Continental Drift? at the Security Council.

The 2003 Security Council deliberation over Res. 1441 have generated much discussion over the future of the balance of power, and the role of the security council in future debates over the ?handling? of rogue states. This paper examines the highly contentious diplomatic media leakage that most scholars have ignored in the interests of framing the council?s role according to traditional models of power and international norms. Finding much ?drift? away from traditional concerns over power politics and alliance breakdown, the author examines the offhand comments made to major media outlets by less powerful actors in the deliberations over issues of paternity, fraternity and good parenting. Drawing on Emily Apter?s examination of a post-colonial continental subject influenced more by techno-ideologies of futurism than of traditional categories of power and nationalism, this paper will highlight the one connection left to the brothers of democracy: their traffic in weapons and technology, and the role of what Derrida has called ?globalatinisation? in forging unity among brothers, and dissension in the ranks of the others. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]