The Globality of Governmentality Governing an Entangled World New International Relations Series

This book reinvigorates the governmentality debate in International Relations (IR) by stressing the interconnectedness between governmentality and globality.

It addresses a widening gap in the social sciences and humanities by reconciling Michel Foucault?s concept of "governmentality" with global politics. The volume assembles leading scholars who draw attention to the importance of approaching governmentality in IR from the perspective of globality, and thereby suggests to consider governmentality and globality as fundamentally entangled. Accordingly, the contributors engage in a multifaceted debate about the relationship of governmentality and globality, relating their views to the proposition that globality cannot be equated with the international level and should rather be considered as a genuine context of its own requiring distinct consideration. The book builds on the increasing importance and popularity of governmentality studies, not only by updating Foucault?s concepts at a theoretical level, but also by introducing novel empirical problems and practices of global governmentality that have not hitherto been explored in IR.

With a wide theoretical and empirical range, it is relevant not only to IR in general and International Political Sociology in particular, but to any student or practitioner in political science, political theory, geography, sociology, or the humanities.

1 Introduction: The Globality Of Governmentality Part I Governing Thought 2 Global Governmentality and Foucault's Toolbox: Reflections on International Politics as a Social System and Field of Power Relations 3 Variations of Governmentality Across the Globe: The Case of Resilience 4 Inter-Governmentality: A Framework for Analysis 5 Sovereignty and Sovereign Powers in Global Governmentality 6 Exploring Agency and Resistance in The Context of Global Entanglements Part II Governing Practice 7 Governmentality, Authoritarianism, Or Capitalist Realism? Explaining Austerity with Foucauldian Political Economy 8 Gender, Global Governance, And the Limits of Expertise on Women: A Feminist Critique of Postconflict Statebuilding 9 Crisis, Post-Neoliberal Global Governmentality and BRICS’ Deconstructive Signature of Power 10 Governmentality of The Arctic As an International Region 11 Conclusion: How We Should, And How We Should Not, Widen the Scope of Governmentality Studies

Jan Busse is Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at the Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany.