Security and Global Governmentality: Globalization, Governance and the State / Edition 1

by Miguel de Larrinaga, Marc G. Doucet

Overview

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 power must necessarily take into account the management of circulation that, in seeking to maximize ‘good’ versus ‘bad’ circulatory flows, brings into play and problematizes the 'inside'/'outside' upon which domestic and international spaces have been traditionally understood. Indeed, Foucault introduces a set of conceptual tools that can inform our analyses of globalization, global governance and security in ways that have been left largely unexplored in the discipline of IR.

Miguel de Larrinaga is Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa where he has been teaching since 2002.

Marc G. Doucet is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Saint Mary’s University.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415560580
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/19/2010
Series:	PRIO New Security Studies
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Miguel de Larrinaga is Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa where he has been teaching since 2002.

Marc G. Doucet is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Saint Mary’s University.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors vii

Acknowledgements ix

List of abbreviations xi

Introduction: the global governmentalization of security and the securitization of global governance Miguel De Larrinaga Marc G. Doucet 1

Part I Historical treatments and critical readings 21

1 European diplomacy and the origins of governmentality Kevin Mcmillan 23

2 Governing circulation: a critique of the biopolitics of security Claudia Aradau Tobias Blanke 44

Part II Global governmentality and global war 59

3 Neoliberal political economy and the Iraq war: a contribution to the debate about global biopolitics Nicholas J. Kiersey 61

4 The new frontiers of the national security state: the US global governmentality of contingency David Grondin 79

5 Governmentality, sovereign power and intervention: Security Council resolutions and the invasion of Iraq Miguel De Larrinaga Marc G. Doucet 96

Part III Securitizing global governance: contemporary cases 111

6 Circulation of desire: the security governance of the international 'mail-order brides' industry Anne-Marie D'Aoust 113

7 Governmentalizing the state: the disciplining logic of human security Nadine Voelkner 132

8 Thinking locally, acting globally: the governmentalization-securitization interplay in recent advanced-liberal peace machinery Nik Hynek 150

Index 169