Troika's intervention in Portugal and the EUs neoliberal governmentality

Supervisor/s: Licínia Simão

Doctoral Programme: International Politics and Conflict Resolution

This research project analysis Troika's (ECB, EC and IMF) interventionism in European Union (EU) Member-States. I will study three interconnected constitutive problematiques of this subject. In one hand, its structure: the framework of relations between EU Member-States and Member-States and European Institutions. On the other hand, its content: the rationality and principles which allow and sustain the intervention. Finally, I will focus on its effects: the product of this intervention as the restructuration and transformation of the political and social spaces subject to it. I argue that the strategies, processes and dynamics expressed in intra-European interventionism, when analyzed through Michel Foucault's neoliberal governmentality approach, have their genesis and are interconnected to the European integration process and demonstrate the displacement of this governmentality from the transnational to the national dimension. I will focus on the Portuguese case-study and use the genealogical foucauldian methodolgy in order to demonstrate the discontinuity and continuance between the intervention and European integration creating new research possibilities and revealing political elements so far neglected or ignored.