The West has only ever theorized power through the legal-juridical lens

Evidence

In studying the historico-political discourse of war in this course, Foucault shows us one way to detach ourselves from the philosophicojuridical discourse of sovereignty and the law that has so dominated our thought and political analysis. In an important lecture given in Brazil in 1976, and unfortunately still not translated into English, Foucault underscores his claim that “the West has never had another system of representation, of formulation, and of analysis of power than that of the law, the system of the law.” — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 250