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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783710703321

Titolo

Global governmentality [[electronic resource] ] : governing international spaces / / edited by Wendy Larner and William Walters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, NY, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-134-38609-5

0-203-35416-8

1-280-07753-0

0-203-45848-6

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; ; 28

Altri autori (Persone)

LarnerWendy

WaltersWilliam <1964->

Disciplina

327.1/01

Soggetti

International organization

Globalization

Power (Social sciences)

Authority

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: global governmentality; Rethinking key concepts; Liberalism    what's in a name?; Nomos and the politics of world order; Global networks, international networks, actor networks; The security of governance; Problems, practices, assemblages, regimes; Governing through the social: representations of poverty and global governmentality; The international government of refugees; The clash of governmentalities: displacement and return in Bosnia-Herzegovina; The political rationality of European integration

Forms of governance, governmentality and the EU's Open Method of CoordinationEthical capitalism; Global benchmarking: participating 'at a distance' in the globalizing economy; Insecurity and the dream of targeted governance; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 peacekee