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1. Richard Ashley, “Living on Border Lines: Man, Poststructuralism, and War”, in James Der Derian and Michael J. Shapiro (eds.), International/Intertextual Relations (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books 1989), p. 262. See also Richard K. Ashley and R.B.J. Walker, “Reading Dissidence/Writing the Discipline: Crisis and the Question of Sovereignty in International Studies”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 3 (1990); Jim George and David Campbell, “Patterns of Dissent and the Celebration of Difference: Critical Social Theory and International Relations”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 3 (1990); Richard K. Ashley, “Untying the Sovereign State: A Double Reading of the Anarchy Problematique”, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 17 (1988); idem, “The Geopolitics of Geopolitical Space: Toward a Critical Social Theory of International Politics”, Alternatives, Vol. 12, No. 4 (1987).

2. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (London: Tavistock, 1970); idem, The Archaeology of Knowledge (trans. A.M. Sheridan Smith), 1st American edn (New York: Pantheon Books, 1972).

3. See, principally, Michael Dillon and Andrew W. Neal (eds.), Foucault on Politics, Security and War (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); Julian Reid, The Biopolitics of the War on Terror: Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity and the Defence of Logistical Societies (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2007); Michael Dillon, “Governing Terror: The State of Emergency of Biopolitical Emergence”, International Political Sociology, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2007).

4. See Nikolas S. Rose, Pat O'Malley and Mariana Valverde, “Governmentality”, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 2 (2006); Jacques Donzelot and Colin Gordon, “Governing Liberal Societies: The Foucault Effect in the English-speaking World”, Foucault Studies, No. 5 (2008). See also Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon and Peter Miller (eds.), The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality: With Two Lectures by and an Interview with Michel Foucault (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991); Andrew Barry, Thomas Osborne and Nikolas S. Rose (eds.), Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-liberalism, and Rationalities of Government (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996).

 7. Ibid., p. 137.

10. David Campbell, “The Biopolitics of Security: Oil, Empire, and the Sports Utility Vehicle”, American Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 3 (2005), p. 949.

 5. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), p. 137.

 6. Ibid., p. 139.

 8. See the “Biopolitics of Security Network” website, available: <http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/bos/index.htm> (accessed 1 July 2009).

 9. See, for example, Dillon and Neal (eds.), op. cit.

11. Dillon and Neal (eds.), op. cit.; Reid, op. cit.; Dillon, op. cit.

12. See, for example, Majia Holmer Nadesan, Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life (New York: Routledge, 2008); Michael Dillon, “Governing through Contingency: The Security of Biopolitical Governance”, Political Geography, Vol. 26 (2007).

13. Michael Merlingen, “Monster Studies”, International Political Sociology, Vol. 2, No. 3 (2008).

14. Rose, O'Malley and Valverde, op. cit.; Donzelot and Gordon, op. cit.

15. Rose, O'Malley and Valverde, op. cit.

16. Burchell, Gordon and Miller (eds.), op. cit.; Barry, Osborne and Rose (eds.), op. cit.

17. Jan Selby, “Engaging Foucault: Discourse, Liberal Governance and the Limits of Foucauldian IR”, International Relations, Vol. 21, No. 3 (2007); David Chandler, “Critiquing Liberal Cosmopolitanism? The Limits of the Biopolitical Approach”, International Political Sociology, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2009).

18. Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).

19. In fact, the notion of governmentality has been used productively to examine colonial and post-colonial social and political projects. See, for example, David Scott, “Colonial Governmentality”, Social Text, No. 43 (1995); U. Kalpagam, “Colonial Governmentality and the Public Sphere in India”, Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol. 14, No. 4 (2001); James Ferguson and Akhil Gupta, “Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality”, American Ethnologist, Vol. 29, No. 4 (2005); Michael Watts, “Resource Curse? Governmentality, Oil and Power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria”, Geopolitics, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2004); Morgan Brigg, “Empowering NGOs: The Microcredit Movement through Foucault's Notion of Dispositif”, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 26, No. 3 (2001); idem, “Post-development, Foucault and the Colonisation Metaphor”, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 3 (2002).

20. See, for example, Selby, op. cit.

21. See the lectures of 22 and 29 March 1978 in Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–1978 (ed. Arnold I. Davidson, trans. Graham Burchell) (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 285–332.

22. Chandler, op. cit.

23. Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–79 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), p. 318.

24. Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, op. cit., p. 109.

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Jason R. Weidner

The papers assembled in this special issue are the result of a series of discussions, starting with a panel organised by David Chandler at the 33rd Annual Conference of the British International Studies Association, University of Exeter, 13–17 December 2008, and continuing with discussions across a range of panels at the 50th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, New York, 15–18 February 2009. These papers represent just a sample of viewpoints and arguments extended on those occasions. The guest editor joins the authors in extending his genuine thanks to the organisers of those panels, and to Doug Stokes and the editors of Global Society for making this possible. Thanks are also due to the many reviewers for their detailed evaluations and encouragement. Finally the guest editor would like to acknowledge the diligent work of the journal's Editorial Assistant, Claire Tanner.