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"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 highlights the need to consider governmentality and globality as fundamentally entangled. Accordingly, instead of any scaling-up of governmentality, the contributors argue 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"--

"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 highlights the need to consider governmentality and globality as fundamentally entangled. Accordingly, instead of any scaling-up of governmentality, the contributors argue 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"--

"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 highlights the need to consider governmentality and globality as fundamentally entangled. Accordingly, instead of any scaling-up of governmentality, the contributors argue 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"--

Dieser Beitrag zeichnet wesentliche Veränderungen der globalen Ordnungsbildung hinsichtlich der Rolle des Individuums nach. Der Beitrag beobachtet in diesem Kontext eine gesteigerte politische Bedeutung des Individuums - einer Hinwendung zum Subjekt - und identifiziert, inwieweit sich hieraus substantielle Folgen für Dynamiken globaler Ordnungsbildung ergeben. Mithilfe der Einführung der Theorieperspektive einer globalen historischen Soziologie politischer Ordnungsbildung zeigt der Beitrag auf, dass beginnend im 19. und insbesondere im 20. Jahrhundert in der internationalen Ordnung ein erheblicher Bedeutungszuwachs zugunsten des Individuums erfolgte. Ausgehend von der Globalisierung der Idee der universellen Gleichheit aller Menschen und der darauf aufbauenden globalen Verbreitung der Idee des Individuums als ein mit speziellen universellen Rechten ausgestattetes Subjekt, transformierte sich das Verständnis legitimer und legitimierter Akteursschaft in der Weltpolitik. Das Individuum tritt nicht mehr nur als Adressat von politischen Entscheidungen in Erscheinung. Vielmehr wird es zum ermächtigten Subjekt, welches legitime Akteursschaft in der Weltpolitik für sich beanspruchen kann und auf diese Weise die Möglichkeit erhält, aktiv auf die weltpolitische Ordnungsbildung einzuwirken. Dies geschieht insbesondere über den Weg des (internationalen) Rechtssystems. Illustriert wird die vorliegende Argumentation unter Verweis auf die Rolle des Individuums in den Feldern der Sicherheitspolitik und des Klimaschutzes.

Global Palestine and world society -- Conceptualizing governamentability in world society -- Contested numbers : the biopolitics of statistics in Palestine -- The surveillance of good governance in Palestine -- The order of the subject : technologies of the self in Palestine.

To get a better sense of power dynamics in global politics, this book presents an innovative theoretical framework, combining a critical engagement with, and further development of, Michel Foucault's governmentality on the one hand, and the theory of world society of the Stanford School of Sociology on the other. Making an original contribution to academic debates about power and global political order, this book develops a comprehensive theoretical perspective on power relations and political dynamics. The book starts from the presupposition that any theoretical engagement of that kind requires nuanced empirical study as well. It therefore analyzes the dynamics of world-societal order in the concrete empirical example of Palestine, and raises the question of how its political and societal order comes into existence. The author argues that governmentality represents a fundamental pattern of political order in world society that also profoundly affects power dynamics in Palestine. This insight has two important implications: First, power relations do not follow dichotomous distinctions such as international/domestic or global/local, but manifest themselves within world society. Second, therefore, order that comes into existence in Palestine needs to be understood as world-societal order. Offering a comprehensive understanding of power relations and patterns of political order(ing) embedded in world society, the book provides a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics that contribute to the political and societal order of Palestine. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Middle East Studies, Palestine Studies, International Relations, International Political Sociology, International Relations Theory, Governmentality Studies, and Political Theory.