Discipline and Punishment in Global Politics: Illusions of ControlGlobal 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 |
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