Béatrice Hibou is CNRS Director of Research at CERI-Sciences Po, France. Her comparative research in political economy explores, from a Weberian perspective and a Foucaultian conception of power, the political significance of economic reform, state trajectories and the exercise of domination, based on cases from sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb and Europe. Her major publications include The Bureaucratization of the World in the Neoliberal Era (2015), The Force of Obedience: The Political Economy of Repression in Tunisia (2011), and Privatizing the State (ed., 2004).

• 1. Desire for normality, normative processes and power of normalization .- 2. Believing and getting others to believe: the subjective motives of legitimacy .- 3. Desire for the state and control dispositifs .- 4. Modernity and technocratization .- 5. Neither ‘collaborators’ nor ‘opponents’: Economic Actors caught up in Different Logics of Action and in Random Sequences .- 6. Neither ‘Bribery’ nor ‘Compensation’: Unforeseen Configurations .- 7. No absolute control, but convergences and circumstantial opportunities .- 8. Neither Expression of Tolerance nor Instrument of Repression: Economic Laissez-faire as an Improvised Mode of Domination .- 9. Interpreting the Relations of Domination: The Plasticity of the Authoritarian Exercise of Power .- 10. Conclusion.