Title: Governing Europe : discourse, governmentality and European integration /
Authors: Walters, William, 1964-; Haahr, Jens Henrik, 1963-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2005
Subjects: European Union; European federation; Reason of state.; European Union countries Politics and government Philosophy.
Abstract: "Governing Europe is the first book to systematically link Michel Foucault's hypotheses on power and governmentality with the study of European integration. Through a series of empirical encounters that span the fifty-year history of European integration, it explores both the diverse political dreams that have framed means and ends of integration and the political technologies that have made 'Europe' a calculable, administrable domain." "Governing Europe will be essential reading not only for researchers of European integration, but for political scientists and sociologists interested in developing a dialogue between Foucauldian themes and political studies."--Jacket.
Contents: Governing Europe -- "Seeing like a high authority?" : high modernism and European government -- The common market : governing Europe through freedom? -- Of democratic deficits -- In/secure community : governing Schengenland -- Benchmarking Europe : advanced liberalism and the open method of coordination -- On the governmentalization of Europe.