Global governmentality

Foucault’s thoughts on governmentality have made a significant impact on studies of power and governance in modern societies. However, most studies of governmentality confine themselves to the exploration of power within nationstates. 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 neoliberalism, the spatiality of globalization, the genealogy of development, and the ...

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