..., on the other hand, asks if Foucault went far enough in his examination of biopower. He claims that Foucault did not take seriously enough the way in which modern politics enacts the Sovereign power of the monarch, even in democracies. Agamben examines the climate that leads up to and includes the Nazi camps...

...The unconditional surrender of Germany and the Allied assumption of full sovereign power raised the question of whether Germany had ceased to exist as a state. After the effective division of Germany, it served as part of the basis for the desire for reunification. Occupation, revelations about...

... political theorizing “is” during the Middle Ages is a set of positions and justificatory explanations about “sovereign power.” The attempt to fix the boundary between sacred and temporal authority during the eleventh-century pontificate of Gregory VII is normally seen to have spawned the major and long...

...A twenty-first-century ‘Emerging Power’ (EmPo) faces an unprecedented challenge: how to pursue a traditional Westphalian sovereign power rise in an increasingly interdependent, post-Westphalian world. Most of the new century's challenges have a universal character that threatens an emerging...

... with the city and its inhabitants, it was by and large from Rome that the popes would consolidate their power over the ever more robust Papal States, which have come to serve as an important case study for the emergence of early modern European states in general; for the evolution of sovereign power...

...How states cooperate in the absence of a sovereign power is a perennial question in international relations. This book argues that global governance is more than just the cooperation of states under anarchy: it is the formation and maintenance of collective intentions, or joint commitments among...

... or detained indefinitely. Forcible feeding transforms the bodies of hunger strikers into dependents and makes such techniques more acceptable to concerned audiences. Yet this is also an exercise of state sovereign power through the exercise of biopolitics on subjects produced not as liberal subjects...

.... For power to be sovereign, independence must be gained first. Power cannot be obligated to the wishes of another power or constrained by the laws of another regime. The struggle for independence of European empires did not readily create the conditions for the exercise of a sovereign power. It was elusive...

... removes itself from the enigmatic seductions of sovereign power and authority. This chapter focuses on where to locate the specific intervention of psychoanalysis, whether in the form of clinical, therapeutic practice or of cultural critique: Does it belong on the side of investiture and the predicaments...

... law principles. It also looks at how the existence of minority opinions affected the Assembly's interpretation of the idea of popular sovereign power. Constituent Assembly popular sovereignty anti colonial revolution struggle British Cabinet Mission of 1946 French Nehru Philadelphia Convention...

..., Islamophobia, antiblackness, and settler colonialism. The book argues that demonologies are not merely tools of dehumanization but ontological and biopolitical systems that create and maintain structures of sovereign power, or orthotaxies: models of the “right ordering” of reality that create...

... archive Canguilhem family Foucault madness neighborhood normal pathological psychiatric power sovereign power In placing Foucault among my interlocutors in the low-income areas that figure in this book and even bringing myself to call these “slums,” what do I hope to achieve in this chapter? My...

...This chapter discusses an alternative conception that is traceable to Athens and Jerusalem and which stands in stark opposition to the modern glorification of sovereign power, totalizing ideologies, and abstract procedures. It introduces Walter Lippmann, the author of The Good Society...

...Kathy L. Gaca, Sovereign Power and Social Justice: Plato and Aristotle on Justice and its Biopolitical Basis in Heterosexual Copulation, Procreation, and Upbringing In: Biopolitics and Ancient Thought. Edited by: Jussi Backman and Antonio Cimino, Oxford University...

.... As long as the fiscal backstop is fully national, international cooperation will remain fragile. Only when there is an international governance mechanism to pool fiscal resources, international cooperation can be made to work. Effective international cooperation challenges the core of sovereign power...

... they affirm the primacy of power over norms, or of norms over power. Hans Kelsen's theory, which places at the apex of the system the basic norm, not sovereign power, considers the state (and any other organized power) from the standpoint of normativity. His theory can be interpreted as the most radical...

... of supranational sovereign power, along with the distinction between the EU’s legal foundation and a constitution. It also examines how national constitutions provide a filter for primary European law and influence European legislation; the European Court of Justice’s ruling regarding the supremacy of European law...

... to highlight the importance of the historical context. The nature of sovereign power is then used to illustrate both the coercive control over military subordinates and the fragility of that very same coercion. This leads into the way the act of mutiny is socially constructed—in other words, what counts...

... attempts to distinguish sovereign power from biopower nearly impossible through its interrogation and complication of the relationship between discipline and regulation. At the same time, the film offers a tangible utopian glimpse of a world freed from either system of control. Foucault Michel Stowe...

...This chapter examines the evidence for the provincial distribution of the relationship between sovereign power and disciplinary association during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows that this relationship became an important part of the population in the old province...