Foucault and the Modern International

1. Introduction: The International as an Object for Thought
Philippe Bonditti

Part 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

Part 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

Part III. International?

8. Silencing Colonialism: Foucault and the International
Marta Fernández, Paulo Esteves

9. Violence and the Modern International: An Archaeology of Terrorism
Philippe Bonditti

10. Foucault and the Historical Sociology of Globalization
Jean-François Bayart

Part IV. (Neo-)liberal?

11. On Liberalism: Limits, the Market and the Subject
Frédéric Gros

12. On Bureaucratic Formalization: The Reality-Like Fiction of Neoliberal Abstractions
Béatrice Hibou

13. Too-Late Liberalism: From Promised Prosperity to Permanent Austerity
Laurence McFalls, Mariella Pandolfi

Part 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

Part VI. Global?

16. The Word and the Things: An Archaeology of an Amnesic Notion
Armand Mattelart

17. Foucault and Geometrics
Stuart Elden

18. Conclusion: Which Foucault? Which International?
R. B. J. Walker

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Theory, Political Economy, Political Communication, Globalization, Political Sociology, Knowledge - Discourse