Global Governance and Biopolitics: Regulating human security

✍ Scribed by David Roberts

• Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This seminal work is the first fully to engage human security with power in the international system. It presents global governance not as impartial institutionalism, but as the calculated mismanagement of life, directing biopolitical neoliberal ideology through global networks, undermining the human security of millions. The book responds to recent critiques of the human security concept as incoherent by identifying and prioritizing transnational human populations facing life-ending contingencies en mass. Furthermore, it proposes a realignment of World Bank practices towards mobilizing indigenous provision of water and sanitation in areas with the highest rates of avoidable child mortality.
Roberts demonstrates that mainstream IR's nihilistic domination of security thinking is directly responsible for blocking the realization of greater human security for countless people worldwide, whilst its assumptions and attendant policies perpetuate the dystopia its proponents claim is inevitable. Yet this book presents a viable means of achieving a form of human security so far denied to the most vulnerable people in the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Prelims
About the author
Table and figures
Table 1.1 Comparative global deaths from war and diseases, direct and indirect violence, 2002–05
Figure 3.1 Facilitators and inhibitors for engagement with neoliberalism
Figure 3.2 How poverty and ill health prevent engagement with neoliberalismand maintain the status quo
Figure 5.1 Regulating the U5MR – the potential impact of externally assisted indigenous entrepreneurialism in water and sanitation provision
Figure 6.1 Schematic outlining paths of pressure invoked by norms entrepreneurs and the ‘downstream’ effect on global governance, biopolitical management and human security
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 | Humanizing Security?
The state and security
Table 1.1 Comparative global deaths from war and diseases, direct and indirect violence, 2002–05
The human and security
Populations and security
A definition
Conclusion
2 | Global Governance or Global Hegemony?
Introduction
Global governance as benign
Global governance as asymmetrical power
Global governance and hegemony
Global governmentality, transnational populations and biopolitics
Biopolitics for human security?
Conclusion
3 | A New 'Nebuleuse'?
Introduction
A new nebuleuse?
Medical science and human security
Poor health, weak growth?
Figure 3.1 Facilitators and inhibitors for engagement with neoliberalism
Figure 3.2 How poverty and ill health prevent engagement with neoliberalismand maintain the status quo
Good health, strong growth
The European experience
Medical science and human security: a way forward?
4 | Neoliberalism, Water and Sanitation
Neoliberalism and privatization
Critical International Political Economy
Critical IPE and the Post-Washington Consensus
Global social policy
What kind of social provision? For whom?
Conclusion
5 | Social Reconstruction and World Bank Policy
Legal influence on World Bank policy
Political influence on World Bank policy
Thinking about change
Mobilizing local capacity
A human security, sector-wide approach (SWAp)
Generating Bank compliance
Conclusion
Figure 5.1 Regulating the U5MR – the potential impact of externally assisted indigenous entrepreneurialism in water and sanitation provision
6 | Norms and Change
Introduction
Norms change
Figure 6.1 Schematic outlining paths of pressure invoked by norms entrepreneurs and the ‘downstream’ effect on global governance, biopolitical management and human security
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index