Michel Foucault’s critical approach to understanding power has become very influential in the study of global politics, especially in the work of (critical) IR scholars. The Foucauldian kind of power conception has influenced some IR scholars who adopt key insights from post-structuralist theory to world politics thus producing an analytical orientation, in the sense that all reality is structured first by language with discourses then creating a coherent system of knowledge, objects, and subjects. Of particular importance is Foucault’s notion of biopower, biopolitics, and technology of power. Such toolbox allows (critical) IR scholars to recur and distinguish disciplinary power, governmentality, its types (liberalism, neoliberalism), and biopolitics itself. However, few IR studies differentiate between biopower and biopolitics; yet an extensive variety of international studies issues are analyzed. Additionally, applying Foucault’s notions to global politics has been roundly criticized. This article begins with an introduction followed by a discussion of biopower and biopolitics. It continues with a discussion of the debates in the IR literature on biopower and illustrations of works of IR scholarship that draw on biopower and governmentality for insight into global politics. The article then concludes with a discussion of directions for future research.
La intensificación de las relaciones comerciales a través de la consolidación de acuerdos comerciales regionales ha sido una tendencia constante a partir de los noventas. Valiéndose de la reciente firma del Acuerdo de Asociación entre la UE y dos de los países miembros de la CAN (Colombia y Perú), se muestra que el esquema de negociación bloque a bloque devino en una negociación multi-partes. El objetivo de este artículo es examinar el manejo dado por los países miembros de la CAN al derecho comunitario andino a partir de la iniciativa de negociar el Acuerdo de Asociación con la UE. A través de una metodología descriptiva, se analizará cronológicamente la dinámica negociadora de los andinos y la flexibilidad adoptada por los europeos. El artículo se divide en tres secciones. En el primer aparte se presentan las razones para la integración a la luz de la UE y la CAN, así como el panorama actual de proliferación de acuerdos comerciales regionales a nivel mundial; para pasar a analizar en la segunda sección las particularidades del pilar comercial, como parte del trípode que conforma los AA negociados por la UE. En la tercera sección se presentarán las dinámicas de la negociación de ese pilar entre los bloques y el manejo que desde el punto de vista del derecho comunitario andino se le dio al tema. Finalmente, se plantearán las conclusiones y recomendaciones.
Este artículo argumenta que Perú ofrece una riqueza empírica valiosa para comprender el pragmatismo de la política exterior y la forma como los discursos de la élite se estructuran y redibujan, intentando privilegiar las acciones y los resultados consistentemente, sobre las posturas ideológicas. A pesar de la inestabilidad política de los ochentas y noventas y de los escándalos de corrupción de este siglo por parte de los más altos tomadores de decisión peruanos, Torre Tagle intenta actuar consistentemente de conformidad con los lineamientos de la política exterior, acogiendo un enfoque que privilegia los resultados. Para el análisis, recurro a cinco variables analíticas: el discurso presidencial, el perfil de la élite de la política exterior, la corrupción presidencial, los mecanismos de inserción internacional, el crecimiento económico y el desempeño internacional. El período de tiempo analizado comprende los años 1990-2015, con algunas referencias a sucesos ocurridos entre los años 1985-1990 y 2015-2019.
This article discusses the driving forces behind the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Peru. Accordingly, the importance of bilateral cooperation in the development of Sino-Peruvian relations is being assessed. Given that the Chinese presence in Peru is an extended phenomenon, the article attempts to determine the extent of China’s influence on bilateral relations and its importance in building the official narrative of Peruvian decision-makers regarding the trans-Pacific image they aim to project in relation to China. For this reassion the article recurs to the productive notion of power, focusing on intangible elements mainly to enquire by the discursive constructions of the Peruvian technocrat agents and related practices embedded into the Sino-Peruvian relation −strongly led by the Asian country. The article concludes that the main topics of bilateral cooperation make it possible to single out four stages of China’s international policy towards Peru. Even though the Sino-Peruvian relation does not ground either can be explained exclusively on economic criteria or an institutional basis, the current associativity between both countries answer to the reciprocal knowledge triggered by migratory waves of the Chinese in moments of economic and political stress. At the same time, the discourses and narratives created by Peruvian technocrats acknowledge the country’s trans-Pacific identity; China’s weight in this identification is defining for the narrative of Peru as a bridge country in the 1990s and South America’s operational hub in Asia in the 21st century.
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