Discipline and Punishment in Global Politics: Illusions of Control

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Springer, Jun 9, 2008 - Political Science - 240 pages
Global politics is a crowded stage of players competing for power and authority. Who is in charge of what? How do they stay in charge and what are the effects? This volume raises these questions in case studies on regimes of torture and surveillance in women's rights, border control, media, global capital and religion.
 

Contents

1 Challenges to Authority in Global Politics
1
Insights from Foucault on the United States and Torture
27
3 Disciplining Women Disciplining Womens Rights
41
Missile Defense and the Reification of Domesticity
65
Disciplining Populations Post911
85
6 The NationState the Global Media and the Regime of Supervision
111
Captivity in Televisual Narratives of the Iraq Conflict
138
Religion and the UN Declaration of Commitment on HIVAIDS
165
Activism Power Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility
190
10 Illusions of Control
215
Index
233
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JANIE LEATHERMAN is director of international studies and professor of politics at Fairfield University, USA. She has authored numerous articles and book chapters on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), conflict early warning and prevention, gender and violence, sex-trafficking, foreign policy and transnational politics.

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