How did foreign policy arise as a problem, in the way it did? How did it become both knowable and a problem to be handled? Those are the key questions to be answered in this paper.
Seeing ‘foreign policy’ as a rationality of government the paper demonstrates how it was not articulated primarily as a way for ‘the inside’ to demarcate itself from ‘the outside’, but as a way for the state to demarcate itself from civil society, and to construct itself as something above and beyond said society, acting on behalf of it towards the outside.
