Governmentality's (missing) international dimension and the promiscuity of German neoliberalism

The Social Evolution of World Politics

“…Any widened pool of variations that can be uttered and experimented with goes hand in hand with an increasing likelihood of contestations, for example in relation to challenging the political status quo (Luhmann 2000). That modern society observes itself as ever-changing further accelerates such dynamics, for it legitimizes changes to the status quo based, for example, on notions of 'progress' or, as Foucault highlights, due to the relative legitimacy 'resistance' enjoys in the context of modern (global) governmentality (Merlingen 2003;Jaeger 2014;Buzan and Lawson 2015). To be sure, similar dynamics can be discerned in earlier epochs too, as, for example, in the long history of nomad resistance until early modernity (Beckman 1999;Khazanov and Wink 2001).…”

Mapping the Global Balkans: Sovereignty, Governmentality and the Practices of Serbia's Encounters with Emerging Economies and the EU

“…For example, as disciplinary power involves the regulation, ordering and surveillance of people in a territory (Dean, 2010: 29), I point to disciplinary forms of rule in the practices employed to monitor and direct the progress of Western Balkan states within the EU accession process. I identify elements of the "proto-governmentality of raison d'Etat" 21 (Jaeger, 2013) in Serbia's diplomatic relations with both China and Russia as these relations are concerned with the growth and the proper management of the state's forces (e.g., wealth, individuals, goods etc.). The main concern of biopolitical rule -circulation -informs the construction of transnational roads and railways, which is to increase the volume, density and intensity of goods and people moving through Serbia.…”

“…Following the International Political Sociology literature that utilizes Bourdieu and Foucault to understand international politics (e.g., Abrahamsen, 2004;Adler-Nissen, 2013;Bigo and Tsoukala, 2008;Ilcan and Lacey, 2011;Isleyen, 2015;Jaeger, 2013;Kauppi, 2003;Pouliot, 2008;Salskov-Iverson et al, 2000;Sending and Neumann, 2006;Slater, 2006;Vauchez, 2008;Williams, 2007), I proceed to map the mentalities and practices constitutive of Serbia's engagements with the EU, China and Russia. There are three reasons that I rely on IPS.…”