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Michel Foucault

“Finally, this principle and its corollary lead to a conclusion, deduced as an imperative: that the objective of the exercise of power is to reinforce, strengthen and protect the principality, but with this last understood to mean not the objective ensemble of its subjects and territory, but rather the prince's relation with what he owns, with the territory he has inherited or acquired, and with his subjects.”

Michel Foucault, The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality
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The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality by Michel Foucault
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