Haahr / Walters Governing Europe

Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-134-35494-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in European Politics

Governing Europe is the first book to systematically link Michel Foucault's hypotheses on power and 'governmentality' with the study of European integration. Through a series of empirical encounters that spans the fifty-year history of European integration, it explores both the diverse political dreams that have framed means and ends of integration and the political technologies that have made 'Europe' a calculable, administrable domain.

The book illustrates how a genealogy of European integration differs from conventional approaches. By suspending the assumption that we already know what/where Europe is, it opens a space for analysis where we can ask: how did Europe come to be governed as this and not that? The themes covered by this book include:

* the different constructions of Europe within discourses of modernization, democratization, insecurity and 'governance'
* the imprint of modernism, liberalism, ordoliberalism, neoliberalism and crime on the identity of the European Community/European Union
* the historical relationship between European government and specific technologies of power, technologies as diverse as planning, price control, transparency and benchmarking.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haahr, Jens Henrik

Walters, William

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Governing Europe

2. 'Seeing like a High Authority'? High Modernism and European Government

3. The Common Market: Governing Europe through Freedom?

4. Of Democratic Deficits

5. In/Secure Community: Governing Schengenland

6. Benchmarking Europe: Advanced Liberalism and the Open Method of Coordination

7. Conclusion: On the Governmentalization of Europe

Über Autor(innen)

William Walters is Associate Professor in Political Science at Carleton University, Canada. Jens Henrik Haahr is a Senior Consultant at the Danish Technological Institute.