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Academics as Politicians and as Operators of Global Governance

Niilo Kauppi

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PoliticsMichel foucaultPolitical scienceReflexivityKey (cryptography)European commissionPolitical engagementAbstractionPublic administrationGlobal governance

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In this chapter, the author scrutinizes the links between politics and academe in global governance. He analyzes two cases, those of former president of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso and philosopher Michel Foucault, that exemplify different types of political engagement. Social scientists play a key but concealed part in the steering of global governance. Under and beyond global institutions, they partake in the development of influential transnational professional groups. By producing practical knowledge for everyday or ‘banal’ global governance, social scientists shape the politically imaginable at more institutional levels. Yet others provide at a higher level of abstraction more theoretically interested, reflexive knowledge on global governance. In all these capacities, social scientists act as the physical (personnel) and symbolic (practical knowledge) operators of global governance.

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2018-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71002-0_10