Globalizing Governmentality

Globalizing Governmentality analyses processes of globalization and global governance, through a critical examination of the dynamics of neoliberalism in the Americas.

The work employs and develops a Foucauldian governmentality analytical framework, demonstrating how such a framework contributes to our understanding of world politics. Weidner argues that discourses and practices of globalization, global civil society, and global governance represent a fundamental transformation in the way that contemporary social and political reality is understood, and that this has significant consequences for the kinds of political practices and relations that are possible. Moreover, the book's research suggests that the global proliferation of a neoliberal form of competitive subjectivity that can be applied to a broad range of actors--from individuals to nation-states and international organizations--is reshaping contemporary world politics.

Seeking to push governmentality studies further in the direction of an engagement with political economy and demonstrating how neoliberal globalization is shaping contemporary social and political reality, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations theory, global governance, and international political economy.

Globalizarea guvernamentalitatii analizeaza procesele de globalizare si guvernare globala, printr-o examinare critica a dinamicii neoliberalismului in America. Lucrarea foloseste si dezvolta un cadru analitic Foucauldian de guvernanta, demonstrand modul in care un astfel de cadru contribuie la intelegerea noastra a politicii mondiale. Weidner sustine ca discursurile si practicile globalizarii, ale societatii civile globale si ale guvernantei globale reprezinta o transformare fundamentala in modul in care este inteleasa realitatea sociala si politica contemporana si ca aceasta are consecinte semnificative pentru tipurile de practici si relatii politice posibile.