Michel Foucault’s critical approach to understanding power has become very influential in the study of global politics, especially in the work of (critical) IR scholars. The Foucauldian kind of power conception has influenced some IR scholars who adopt key insights from post-structuralist theory to world politics thus producing an analytical orientation, in the sense that all reality is structured first by language with discourses then creating a coherent system of knowledge, objects, and subjects. Of particular importance is Foucault’s notion of biopower, biopolitics, and technology of power. Such toolbox allows (critical) IR scholars to recur and distinguish disciplinary power, governmentality, its types (liberalism, neoliberalism), and biopolitics itself. However, few IR studies differentiate between biopower and biopolitics; yet an extensive variety of international studies issues are analyzed. Additionally, applying Foucault’s notions to global politics has been roundly criticized. This article begins with an introduction followed by a discussion of biopower and biopolitics. It continues with a discussion of the debates in the IR literature on biopower and illustrations of works of IR scholarship that draw on biopower and governmentality for insight into global politics. The article then concludes with a discussion of directions for future research.
Realizado con base en el trabajo de tesis elaborado y presentado por la autora para optar por el titulo de Magíster en derecho con mención en derecho Internacional Económico de la PUCP.
Este artículo argumenta que Perú ofrece una riqueza empírica valiosa para comprender el pragmatismo de la política exterior y la forma como los discursos de la élite se estructuran y redibujan, intentando privilegiar las acciones y los resultados consistentemente, sobre las posturas ideológicas. A pesar de la inestabilidad política de los ochentas y noventas y de los escándalos de corrupción de este siglo por parte de los más altos tomadores de decisión peruanos, Torre Tagle intenta actuar consistentemente de conformidad con los lineamientos de la política exterior, acogiendo un enfoque que privilegia los resultados. Para el análisis, recurro a cinco variables analíticas: el discurso presidencial, el perfil de la élite de la política exterior, la corrupción presidencial, los mecanismos de inserción internacional, el crecimiento económico y el desempeño internacional. El período de tiempo analizado comprende los años 1990-2015, con algunas referencias a sucesos ocurridos entre los años 1985-1990 y 2015-2019.
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