The Last Empires: Governing Ourselves, Our Nations, And Our World
by William Allan /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book is a forthright and novel examination of efforts to
improve global governance over the last forty years. It
looks at the effects of governance changes on people that have
been marginalized by industrial progress and international
conflict and the inability of national governments to meet the
needs of global society.
This book is a forthright and novel examination of efforts to
improve global governance over the last forty years. It
looks at the effects of governance changes on people that have
been marginalized by industrial progress and international
conflict and the inability of national governments to meet the
needs of global society.
Economics has long laid claims to providing the basis for global
prosperity, but this promise has all to frequently been broken.
Michel Foucault looked closely at economics and neoliberalism as
a possible means for guiding modern governments to allow
individuals to govern themselves and others. He focused on
the evolution of social development as a consequence of many
disciplines and biopolitical forces, but he never looked at his
data from the perspective of economics alone. This book
offers a Foucauldian interpretation of contemporary governance
issues, such as global security, social cohesion, economic crisis
and financialization, to the formidable problems that the world
faces at the beginning of the 21st century.
Economics has long laid claims to providing the basis for global
prosperity, but this promise has all to frequently been broken.
Michel Foucault looked closely at economics and neoliberalism as
a possible means for guiding modern governments to allow
individuals to govern themselves and others. He focused on
the evolution of social development as a consequence of many
disciplines and biopolitical forces, but he never looked at his
data from the perspective of economics alone. This book
offers a Foucauldian interpretation of contemporary governance
issues, such as global security, social cohesion, economic crisis
and financialization, to the formidable problems that the world
faces at the beginning of the 21st century.