Michael J. Shapiro

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Michael J. Shapiro is a critical international relations theorist and a professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii.

Shapiro is known primarily for writing on the modern nation-state, of which he is critical, arguing that it rests on a foundation of war and the elimination of indigenous peoples, and that its creation and maintenance require, "at a discursive level, a management of historical narratives... that imposes a coherence on... a series of fragmentary, arbitrary, and power-driven conditions of historical assemblage, masked in various mythic narrations of emerging consensuality."