Nicholas J. (Hrsg.) Kiersey

Foucault and International Relations

New Critical Engagements

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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 concept of security in 19th-century liberal government, numerous IR scholars are now arguing for the relevance of his theories of biopolitics and governmentality for understanding the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and broader issues of security and governance in the post 9/11 world.Conversely, others have criticized this idea. Marxist and Communitarian scholars have challe… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Stokes, Doug (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-317-98676-8
EAN: 9781317986768
Produktnummer: 31861826
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'821 KB

Über den Autor

Nicholas J. Kiersey is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio University-Chillicothe. He has published research on world state theory, scale and bio-politics in the War on Terror, and the European Union's attitude to Turkish accession. His current research focuses on discourses of neoliberal capitalist subjectivity and the debate about empire in IR theory.Doug Stokes is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His work covers critical international relations theory and US foreign policy. His most recent book is called American Hegemony and Global Energy Security and is due out in 2010 with the Johns Hopkins University Press.