Governing Europe

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. . Language: English