As the political theorist William E. Connolly has described him: "no one writing in English today has as wide a command over diverse references or develops more profound insights from them".[4]
Career
Shapiro's early work in political science covered the conventional areas of the discipline, including political psychology, decision theory and electoral politics.[2][5] Around 1980, however, under the influence of philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Shapiro began employing concepts from continental philosophy and cultural studies including governmentality, micropolitics, the movement-image, the time-image, and rhythmanalysis, while introducing unconventional devices such as first-person narrative into his essays. Shapiro's postdisciplinary political thought is the subject of a forthcoming volume from the Routledge book series "Innovators in Political Theory", which will feature a retrospective of his most important essays in a single volume.
—, ed. (1984). Language and politics. New York, New York: New York University Press. ISBN9780814778395.
— (1988). The politics of representation: writing practices in biography, photography, and policy analysis. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN9780299116309.
Shapiro, Michael J.; Jernudd, Björn H. (1989). The Politics of language purism. Berlin New York: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN9780899254838.
Der Derian, James; Shapiro, Michael J. (1989). International/intertextual relations: postmodern readings of world politics. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books. ISBN9780669189551.
Shapiro, Michael J.; Alker, Hayward R. (1996). Challenging boundaries: global flows, territorial identities. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN9780816626991.
Shapiro, Michael J. (1997). Violent cartographies: mapping cultures of war. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN9780816629213.
— (1999). Cinematic political thought: narrating race, nation, and gender. Edinburgh, Scotland New York, New York: Edinburgh University Press New York University Press. ISBN9780814797518.
—; Campbell, David (1999). Moral spaces: rethinking ethics and world politics. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN9780816632763.
— (2001). For moral ambiguity: national culture and the politics of the family. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN9780816638543.
— (1993). Reading "Adam Smith" : desire, history, and value. Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications. ISBN9780803945852.
— (2002). Reading "Adam Smith": desire, history and value. Lanham, Maryland Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN9780742521339. Original printed in 1993.
Shapiro, Michael J.; Bennett, Jane, eds. (2002). The politics of moralizing. New York, New York: Routledge. ISBN9780415934787.
Shapiro, Michael (2004). Methods and nations: cultural governance and the indigenous subject. New York, New York: Routledge. ISBN9780415945325.
Shapiro, Michael J.; Edkins, Jenny; Pin-Fat, Veronique (2004). Sovereign lives: power in global politics. New York, New York: Routledge. ISBN9780415947367.