Foucault on Politics, Security and War

This book reappraises the work of Michel Foucault on questions of politics, security and war in light of his recently published College de France lectures. It addresses topical issues such as: the War on Terror, risk, biosecurity and biopolitics, AIDS, racial and ethnic conflict, and the critique of law for a wide audience of scholars in political theory, IR and political science among others. Its focus on more recently translated work by Foucault commends the project as one of trans-disciplinary appeal and importance. As Foucault's legacy is once more becoming central to debates in heterodox (international) political theory, the volume looks set to become a key reference for future engagements in this vein."Foucault on Politics, Society and War" interrogates Foucault's controversial genealogy of modern biopolitics. These essays situate Foucault's arguments, clarify the correlation of sovereign and bio-power and examine the relation of bios, nomos and race in relation to modern war.