Week 12: Global Security Assemblages

Wednesday, May 2

Abrahamsen, Rita, and Michael C. Williams. 2009. “Security Beyond the State: Global Security Assemblages in International Politics.” International Political Sociology 3(1): 1-17.
Leander, Anna. 2005. “The Power to Construct International Security: On the Significance of Private Military Companies.” Millennium 33(3):803-825.

Recommended

Aradau, Claudia and Rens Van Munster. 2007. “Governing Terrorism through Risk: Taking Precautions, (Un)Knowing the Future.” European Journal of International Relations 13(1): 89-115.
Avant, Deborah. 2005.The Market for Force. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Avant, Deborah. 2004. “The Privatization of Security and Change in the Control of Force.” International Studies Perspectives 5(2): 153-157.
Hall, Rodney Bruce and Thomas J. Bierstecker, eds. 2002.The Emergence of Private Authority in Global Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sending, Ole Jacob, and Iver B. Neumann. 2006. “Governance to Governmentality: Analyzing NGOs, States, and Power.” International Studies Quarterly 50: 651-672.

May 2, 2012

Week 11: Global Governmentality

Wednesday, April 25

Larner, Wendy and William Walters, eds. 2004. Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces. Routledge, pp 1-20.
Lipschutz, Ronnie. 2005. “Power, Politics and Global Civil Society.” Millennium 35(3):747-769.
Kinsella, Helen. 2005. “Securing the Civilian: Sex and Gender in the Laws of War.” In Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall, eds. Power in Global Governance. Cambridge University Press: 249-272.
Neumann, Iver B. and Ole Jacob Sending. 2007. “’The International’ as Governmentality” Millennium 35(3):677-701.

Recommended:

Foucault, Michel. 2003. “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the College De France, 1975-1976. Translated by David Macey. New York: Picador.
Li, Tania 2007. The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics. Durham: Duke University Press.
Lipschutz, Ronnie with James K Rowe. 2005. Globalization, Governmentality
and Global Politics. Routledge.