Features Foucault's late work on biopolitics and governmentality that has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought and as a privileged source for our current understanding of neoliberalism and its technologies of power.
This book examines Foucault's ideas of biopower and biopolitics and their relation to his project of a history of governmentality and to a theory of the subject found in his last Courses at the College de France. The essays in this volume explain and expand on Foucault's analysi…
This volume focuses on the relation that Foucault established between the ideas of biopower and biopolitics and the studies of governmentality in his last Courses at the Collège de France and in his occasional writings of this period. The essays in this volume adopt and contribu…
This book provides a cutting edge overview of recent debates in International Relations theory concerning the applicability of the research and methods of Michel Foucault to contemporary world order. This book was published as a special issue in "Global Society"
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The recent debate about biopolitics in international relations (IR) theory may well prove to be one of the most provocative and rewarding engagements with the concept of power in the history of the discipline. Building on Foucault's arguments concerning the role played by the co…
This volume provides an overview of debates in international relations theory. Building on Foucault's arguments concerning the role played by security in 19th-century liberal government, IR scholars are now arguing for the relevance of his theories of biopolitics and governmenta…
"The recent debate about biopolitics in international relations (IR) theory may well prove to be one of the most provocative and rewarding engagements with the concept of power in the history of the discipline. Building on Foucault's arguments concerning the role played by the c…