Foucault and the Modern International

1. Introduction: The International as an Object for ThoughtPhilippe BondittiSECTION 1 - DE-DISCIPLINING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL2. The Figure of Foucault and the Field of International RelationsNicholas Onuf3. Michel Foucault and International Relations: Cannibal RelationsDidier Bigo4. Microphysics Of Power ReduxWilliam WaltersSECTION 2 - BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND METHOD5. Political Spirituality: Parrhesia, Truth And Factical FinitudeMichael Dillon6. Power as Sumbolon: Sovereignty, Governmentality and the InternationalMitchell Dean7. Foucault and MethodMichael J. ShapiroSECTION 3 - INTERNATIONAL?8. Silencing Colonialism: Foucault And the International Marta Fernández and Paulo Esteves9. Violence and the Modern International: An Archaeology of TerrorismPhilippe Bonditti10. Foucault and the Historical Sociology of GlobalizationJean-François BayartSECTION 4 - (NEO-)LIBERAL?11. On Liberalism: Limits, the Market and the SubjectFrédéric Gros12. On Bureaucratic Formalization: The Reality-Like Fiction of Neoliberal AbstractionsBéatrice Hibou13. Too-Late Liberalism: From Promised Prosperity to Permanent AusterityLaurence McFalls & Mariella PandolfiSECTION 5 - BIOPOLITICAL?14. Biopolitics in the Twenty-First Century: The Malthus-Marx Debate and the Human Capital IssueLuca Paltrinieri15. Mesopolitics: Foucault, Environmental Governmentality and the History of the AnthropoceneFerhat TaylanSECTION 6 - GLOBAL?16. The Word and the Things: An Archaeology of An Amnesic NotionArmand Mattelart17. Foucault and GeometricsStuart Elden18. Conclusion: Which Foucault? Which International?R.B.J Walker

Philippe Bonditti holds a doctorate in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris, France, and is currently Lecturer at the European School of Political and Social Science (ESPOL-UCL), France. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Relations of the Pontificial Universidade Catholica in Rio de Janeiro (IRI/PUC-Rio), Brazil, and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute, Brown University, US. His research interests focus on contemporary discourses on violence, war, and security, the transformations of the modern state and the art of government, (critical) International Relations theory, (critical) security studies, contemporary French philosophy, and political theory.

Didier Bigo is Associate Professor (tenure) at Sciences-Po, France and Professor of International Relations at Kings College London, UK. Bigo is Editor-in-Chief of the French quarterly journal Cultures & Conflits and launched, with R. B. J. Walker, the journal International Political Sociology. His research interests include security and liberty, biometrics identifiers and databases, antiterrorist policies in Europe after 9/11, the merging of internal security and external security, migrants and refugees in Europe, critical security studies, and international political sociology.

Frédéric Gros is Professor of Philosophy at Sciences Po Paris, France. His research focuses on contemporary French philosophy-in particular the thought of Michel Foucault, whose writings, such as Subjectivity and Truth, he has edited-the foundations of the right to punish, issues of war and security, and the ethics of the political subject.