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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827534303321

Titolo

Security and global governmentality : globalization, governance, and the state / / edited by Miguel de Larrinaga and Marc G. Doucet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-23304-7

1-135-23305-5

1-282-63999-4

9786612639999

0-203-86573-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

PRIO New Security Studies

Altri autori (Persone)

DoucetMarc G

LarrinagaMiguel de

Disciplina

355/.033

Soggetti

Security, International

National security

Globalization - Political aspects

State, The

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: The global governmentalization of security and the securitization of global governance; Part I: Historical treatments and critical readings; 1 European diplomacy and the origins of governmentality; 2 Governing circulation: A critique of the biopolitics of security; Part II: Global governmentality and global war; 3 Neoliberal political economy and the Iraq war: A contribution to the debate about global biopolitics

4 The new frontiers of the national security state: The US global governmentality of contingency5 Governmentality, sovereign power and intervention: Security Council resolutions and the invasion of Iraq; Part III: Securitizing global governance: contemporary cases; 6 Circulation of desire: The security governance of the international 'mail-order brides' industry; 7 Governmentalizing the state: The disciplining logic of



human security; 8 Thinking locally, acting globally: The governmentalization-securitization interplay in recent advanced-liberal peace machinery; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines global governance through Foucaultian notions of governmentality and security, as well as the complex intersections between the two.The volume explores how Foucault's understanding of the general economy of power in modern society allows us to consider the connection of two broad possible dynamics: the global governmentalization of security and the securitization of global governance. If Foucault's work on governmentality and security has found resonance in IR scholarship in recent years it is in large part due to his understanding?of how these forms of powe