Abstract

The reality of biopolitics has created bipartisan division, racism, and exasperated social divisions which stands in sharp contrast with Michel Foucault words to sustain, to ensure, to multiply lives to put life in order. Biopolitics in contemporary international relations reiterates Foucault notion of capitalism and politics. Epistemological and methodological analysis of the themes of biopolitics- the theory of governmental conspiracy shine a light on the impact of the pandemic in the fields of politics, economy and society. COVID has stressed the need for international cooperation, China and the United States both showing different approaches of leadership and making use of international institutions like the WHO. China successful approach towards the WHO has solidified its position as an indispensable nation to the world. A reference to Michel Foucault panopticism in Discipline and Punishment is salient in the present time. His apprehension that our response to the pandemic threatens constitutional freedoms that were preserved even under fascism is an assessment, mirroring accusations that the virus is employed to accustom people into submission. World superpowers views on globalisation and biopolitics in the time of the virus “biopolitical order constructed through the contention of a surveillance regime driven by globalisation.” This expansion of state biopower or the explosion of techniques for achieving the subjugations of bodies and the control of populations will be an emergency measure becoming an enduring feature of new biopolitics for security. The tension between security and liberty is just one of the political dilemmas that surround the securitisation of COVID.

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2021 Special Focus—Life after Pandemic: Towards a New Global Biopolitics?

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Surveillance, Bio-politics, Theory of government by conspiracy,State of exception, Globalisation

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