Foucault and the modern international : silences and legacies for the study of world politics Acknowledgments Contents About the Editors and Contributors Chapter 1: Introduction: The International as an Object for Thought Genesis and Construction of the Book Foucault: The Explosives Expert The International as an Object for Thought Foucault the International and IR: Aborted Encounter The Field of IR and Foucault Levels of Reading Notes Part I: De disciplining Knowledge About the International Chapter 2: The Figure of Foucault and the Field of International Relations IR as a Field of Study Foucault Reconfigured Discontinuities Domains Conclusion Notes Chapter 3: Michel Foucault and International Relations: Cannibal Relations Introduction: Cannibal Relations International Relations and Political Science in France: Why Foucault Never Met Duverger Doing International Studies Differently: Foucault on War Space Territory Population and Governmentality Using Foucault to Re launch the Debate on Borders Mobility and Freedom Governance and Governmentality Welfare Risk and (Flexi)security Security Biopolitics Surveillance and Perfect Future: Dispositifs of Power and Resistance Conclusion: For the Death Relevailles a Warning and Some Questions Notes Chapter 4: The Microphysics of Power Redux Prologue: The Jaws of Migration From Microphysics to Governmentality... and Back Forces and Struggles Bodies Conclusion Notes Part II: Between Philosophy and Method Chapter 5: Political Spirituality: Parrhesia Truth and Factical Finitude Factical Finitude Political Spirituality and Parrhēsia The Ethos of the Subject of Truth Alethurgy Prosopopoeia: Figuring Truth and Rule Conclusion Notes Chapter 6: Power as Sumbolon: Sovereignty Governmentality and the International Sumbolon Foucaults Trajectory on Power Foucault and International Politics Conclusion Notes Chapter 7: Foucault and Method Introduction: Tools Parallel Practices Philosophy and Method Dispositifs Truth Weapons Parrhesia and Critique The Method of Critique New Cartographers Strategic Geography and Literary Space Conclusion: Foucault and the Ethico Politics of Aesthetics Notes Part III: International Chapter 8: Silencing Colonialism: Foucault and the International International Society and Its European Alterities: Silencing Colonialism The Homogeneous Time of the International Society Conclusion Notes Chapter 9: Violence and the Modern International: An Archaeology of Terrorism Problem(s) Problematization Archaeology Problem(s) Problematization and Theoretical Practice From Problem to Problematization Problem Concept and Theoretical Practice The Role of the Intellectual and the Archaeological Problematizing a Domain of Practice Archaeology as Method The Emergence of Terrorism and the Problematization of Violence The Counter Insurgency Matrix of Terrorism Terrorism as an Object of Knowledge Security in the Modern Problematization of Violence The Archaeology of Terrorism and the Genesis of Traceability Societies The Emergence of the Concept of Terrorism and Associated Conceptual Variations Terrorism as Political Violence Terrorism as a Spatially Distributed Potentiality of Violence The Networking of Security Structures and the Emergence of Traceability as a Technology for Governing Traceability Societies Notes Chapter 10: Foucault and the Historical Sociology of Globalization Convergences Foucault but Deleuze Too Notes Part IV: (Neo )liberal Chapter 11: On Liberalism: Limits the Market and the Subject Notes Chapter 12: On Bureaucratic Formalization: The Reality ­Like Fiction of Neoliberal Abstractions What Is Neoliberal Bureaucratization Bureaucratization as Abstraction Neoliberal Bureaucratization: Abstraction as Reality Erected into a System Fiction at the Heart of Neoliberal Bureaucratization Notes Chapter 13: Too Late Liberalism: From Promised Prosperity to Permanent Austerity Liberal Government: On the Verge of Crisis Neoliberal Government: In Crisis Too Late Liberal Government: By Crisis Notes Part V: Biopolitical Chapter 14: Biopolitics in the Twenty First Century: The Malthus Marx Debate and the Human Capital Issue Malthus or the Bio economic Population Problem Marx: Underlying Population Classes Neo liberalism and Theories of Human Capital: Neither Population Nor Class Conclusion Notes Chapter 15: Mesopolitics: Foucault Environmental Governmentality and the History of the Anthropocene Notes Part VI: Global Chapter 16: The Word and the Things: An Archaeology of an Amnesic Notion The Negation of the Longue Durée The Premises of a Globalist Representation Towards the Managerial Interoperability The Global Information Dominance Security Dynamics The Hybridization of Profiling From Visible to Invisible Control Notes Chapter 17: Foucault and Geometrics Population Territory Biopolitics Geopolitics Geometrics The Geometrics of Geopolitics The Geopolitics of Climate Change Anthropocene Geopolitics Notes Chapter 18: Conclusion: Which Foucault Which International Problematizations On the Politics of Concepts So Which International Notes Bibliography Works by Michel Foucault Cited in the Volume (By Chronological Order of the First Publication Pronunciation) General Bibliography Index Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: The International as an Object for Thought Philippe Bonditti pt. I De disciplining Knowledge About the International 2. The Figure of Foucault and the Field of International Relations Nicholas Onuf 3. Michel Foucault and International Relations: Cannibal Relations Didier Bigo 4. The Microphysics of Power Redux William Walters pt. II Between Philosophy and Method 5. Political Spirituality: Parrhesia Truth and Factical Finitude Michael Dillon 6. Power as Sumbolon: Sovereignty Governmentality and the International Mitchell Dean 7. Foucault and Method Michael J. Shapiro pt. III International 8. Silencing Colonialism: Foucault and the International Paulo Esteves 9. Violence and the Modern International: An Archaeology of Terrorism Philippe Bonditti 10. Foucault and the Historical Sociology of Globalization Jean Francois Bayart pt. IV (Neo )liberal 11. On Liberalism: Limits the Market and the Subject Frederic Gros 12. On Bureaucratic Formalization: The Reality Like Fiction of Neoliberal Abstractions Beatrice Hibou 13. Too Late Liberalism: From Promised Prosperity to Permanent Austerity Mariella Pandolfi pt. V Biopolitical 14. Biopolitics in the Twenty First Century: The Malthus Marx Debate and the Human Capital Issue Luca Paltrinieri 15. Mesopolitics: Foucault Environmental Governmentality and the History of the Anthropocene Ferhat Taylan pt. VI Global 16. The Word and the Things: An Archaeology of an Amnesic Notion Armand Mattelart 17. Foucault and Geometries Stuart Elden 18. Conclusion: Which Foucault Which International R.B.J. Walker This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault. The broad range of authors brought together in this volume question four of the most self evident characteristics of our contemporary world international neoliberal biopolitical and global and thus fill significant gaps in both international and Foucault studies. The chapters discuss what a Foucauldian perspective does or does not offer for understanding international phenomena while also questioning many appropriations of Foucaults work. This transdisciplinary volume will serve as a reference for both scholars and students of international relations international political sociology international political economy political theory philosophy and critical theory more generally