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Zusatztext 'Marc Doucet's book! Reforming 21st Century Peacekeeping Operations: Governmentalities of Security! Protection! and Police! drawing from the work of Michel Foucault! theorizes about the relationship between the governmental rationality and the UNPKO reform agenda in recent decades. He chooses two specific cases: the SSR model and the UNSC Protection of Civilians (PoC). In one of the chapters entitled Governmentality! sovereign power! and contemporary international peacekeeping operations! Doucet explores key Foucauldian notions! like governmentality! population! biopower and sovereign power.'Ricardo Oliveira dos Santos! Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding! 2019 Informationen zum Autor Marc G. Doucet is an Associate Professor at Saint Mary's University! Canada. He is the co-editor of Security and Global Governmentality and has published articles in Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding; Security Dialogue; Theory & Event; Contemporary Political Theory; Millennium; Alternatives; and Global Society. Zusammenfassung This book considers contemporary international interventions with a specific focus on analysing the frameworks that have guided recent peacekeeping operations led by the United Nations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Reforming 21st-century peacekeeping operations: governmentalities of security, protection, and police Chapter 2: Governmentality, sovereign Power, and contemporary international peacekeeping operations Introduction The mentality of government Governmentalizing the state Sovereign power, biopower, and state sovereignty Sovereign power and states of emergency Conclusion Chapter 3: Police, security, and resilience Introduction International police and international policing Police as a figuration of sovereign power Police as regulation mania Security and police The police-security project of resilience Conclusion Chapter 4: Local ownership: the police-security project of security sector reform (SSR) Introduction Security Sector Reform (SSR): a summary The governmentality of SSR Operationalizing resilience through local ownership Conclusion Chapter 5: The UN’s protection of civilians agenda Introduction Civilis Civilis legalis The new lawfare of protecting civilians The UN’s PoC agenda Rationalizing protection at its point of application The necropolitics of protection Conclusion Chapter 6: Conclusion: reforming UN peacekeeping operations: security, protection, and police ...
