Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces

by Larner; Wendy

• ISBN13: 9780415311380
• ISBN10: 0415311381
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Foucault's thoughts on governmentality have made a significant impact on the studies of power and governance in modern societies. However, most studies of governmentality confine themselves to the exploration of power within nation-states. Global governmentality extends Foucault's political thought towards international studies, exploring the governance of the global, the international, the regional and many other extra-domestic spaces. Combining historical and contemporary outlooks, this book offers innovative interdisciplinary explorations of such issues as international peacekeeping, refugees, political rationalities of security and neo-liberalism, the spatiality of globalization, the genealogy of development, and the ethical governance of corporate activity. At a time when many of the geopolitical and economic certainties which framed international affairs are in flux,Global Governmentalityis suggestive of new territories and lines for international analysis. It will be of interestto students and researchers of both governmentality and international studies.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction: global governmentality	1	(20)
WENDY LARNER AND WILLIAM WALTERS
PART I Rethinking key concepts	21	(74)
1 Liberalism - what's in a name?	23	(17)
BARRY HINDESS
2 Nomos and the politics of world order	40	(19)
MITCHELL DEAN
3 Global networks, international networks, actor networks	59	(17)
GAVIN KENDALL
4 The security of governance	76	(21)
MICHAEL DILION
PART II Problems, practices, assemblages, regimes	95	(156)
5 Governing through the social: representations of poverty and global governmentality	97	(19)
CRISTINA ROJAS
6 The international government of refugees	116	(20)
ROBYN LUI
7 The clash of governmentalities: displacement and return in Bosnia-Herzegovina	136	(19)
GEARÓID Ó TUATHAIL AND CARL DAHLMAN
8 The political rationality of European integration	155	(19)
WILLIAM WALTERS
9 Forms of governance, governmentality and the EU's Open Method of Coordination	174	(21)
ROGER DALE
10 Ethical capitalism	195	(17)
ANDREW BARRY
11 Global benchmarking: participating 'at a distance' in the globalizing economy	212	(21)
WENDY LARNER AND RICHARD LE HERON
12 Insecurity and the dream of targeted governance	233	(18)
MARIANA VALVERDE AND MICHAEL MOPAS
Index	251