Governing Disorder

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

• 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

“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