Reforming 21st Century Peacekeeping Operations

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.

• Chapter 1: Reforming 21st-century peacekeeping operations: governmentalities of security, protection, and policeChapter 2: Governmentality, sovereign Power, and contemporary international peacekeeping operationsIntroductionThe mentality of governmentGovernmentalizing the stateSovereign power, biopower, and state sovereigntySovereign power and states of emergencyConclusionChapter 3: Police, security, and resilienceIntroductionInternational police and international policingPolice as a figuration of sovereign powerPolice as regulation maniaSecurity and policeThe police-security project of resilienceConclusionChapter 4: Local ownership: the police-security project of security sector reform (SSR)IntroductionSecurity Sector Reform (SSR): a summaryThe governmentality of SSROperationalizing resilience through local ownershipConclusionChapter 5: The UN’s protection of civilians agendaIntroductionCivilisCivilis legalisThe new lawfare of protecting civiliansThe UN’s PoC agendaRationalizing protection at its point of applicationThe necropolitics of protectionConclusionChapter 6: Conclusion: reforming UN peacekeeping operations: security, protection, and police

'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