1st Edition

Governing Europe Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration

By William Walters, Jens Henrik Haahr Copyright 2005
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
1. Governing Europe2. 'Seeing like a High Authority'? High Modernism and European Government3. The Common Market: Governing Europe through Freedom?4. Of Democratic Deficits5. In/Secure Community: Governing Schengenland6. Benchmarking Europe: Advanced Liberalism and the Open Method of Coordination7. Conclusion: On the Governmentalization of Europe

Biography

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