This text provides senior undergraduates and graduate students with 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.

On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever.

This text introduces the major issues in international affairs from the period of German unification up to the aftermath of World War I, stressing the impact of imperialist expansion.