This text is an accessible but challenging introduction to the debate on "governmentality" and the continued relevance of this body of work for the study of global politics.

In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary, William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central place in critical security studies and elevated to become a core concept when theorising power in liberal ...

This book uses post-structuralist theories of power and discourse to study European integration and the associated forms of governance.

By providing a much-needed religious/philosophical context for the discussion - examining contemporary thinking on just what constitutes valuable life - Walters broadens his inquiry beyond the human to include other animals and also deals ...