Governing Disorder

UN Peace Operations, International Security, and Democratization in the Post–Cold War Era

AvLaura Zanotti

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

The end of the Cold War created an opportunity for the United Nations to reconceptualize the rationale and extent of its peacebuilding efforts, and in the 1990s, democracy and good governance became legitimizing concepts for an expansion of UN activities. The United Nations sought not only to democratize disorderly states but also to take responsibility for protecting people around the world from a range of dangers, including poverty, disease, natural disasters, and gross violations of human rights. National sovereignty came to be considered less an entitlement enforced by international law than a privilege based on states’ satisfactory performance of their perceived obligations. In Governing Disorder, Laura Zanotti combines her firsthand experience of UN peacebuilding operations with the insights of Michel Foucault to examine the genealogy of post–Cold War discourses promoting international security. Zanotti also maps the changes in legitimizing principles for intervention, explores the specific techniques of governance deployed in UN operations, and identifies the forms of resistance these operations encounter from local populations and the (often unintended) political consequences they produce. Case studies of UN interventions in Haiti and Croatia allow her to highlight the dynamics at play in the interactions between local societies and international peacekeepers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-12-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780271037622

Utforska kategorier

Internationella relationer inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Laura Zanotti is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Recensioner i media

“Governing Disorder is not only an unconventional examination of ‘power’; it is about politics and its ineluctable dilemmas that cannot be ‘solved’ by rational design or the simple transfer of ‘solutions’ that once worked, or worked somewhere else. It will be read with interest by international relations scholars, practitioners, organization theorists, and activists. It will certainly not be embraced by all of them, for the ‘politics’ to which this book draws attention might be too controversial. Nevertheless, it elevates the discourse and leads to new insights and a research agenda that is heuristically fruitful and extremely important for practical politics.”—Friedrich Kratochwil, European University Institute

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1Introduction2Re-Theorizing the Post–Cold War International Order3Governmentalizing the Post–Cold War International Regime: The United Nations Debate on Democratization and Good Governance4Establishing a Global Biopolitical Order: Managing Risk, Protecting Populations, Blurring Spaces of Governance5Imagining Democracy, Building Unsustainable Institutions: International Disciplinarity in the UN Peacekeeping Operation in Haiti6Normalizing Democracy and Human Rights: Discipline, Resistance, and Carceralization in Croatia’s Pacification and Euro-Atlantic Integration7ConclusionsBibliographyIndex