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 challenged the notion that the category
of biopolitics can be 'scaled' up to the level of international
relations with any analytical precision. This edited volume covers
these debates in IR with a series of critical engagements with
Foucault's own thought and its increasing relevance for
understanding international relations in the post 9/11 world.
This book was based on a special issue of Global Society.
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