ABSTRACT
When the knock on the door came on April 4th, 2004, Cindy Sheehan, an American woman and a mother of three, said she already knew the message that was to come: her son, deployed in Iraq only five days prior, was killed in the line of duty. According to Sheehan (2006), a part of her died that day as well; she would or could never be the same. Such were the beginnings of a profound personal/political transformation that was born from a collision of the local and the global which would reverberate with both local and global effects. The events that were to follow were of weighty consequence for Sheehan, her family, the American antiwar movement, and the Bush Administration. These events were an instantiation of international politics. But what does it mean to say this? In other words, what within the field of International Relations (IR) constitutes an event?
