Governmentalizing the Post–Cold War International Regime: The UN Debate on Democratization and Good Governance

Zanotti, Laura

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“…to a convenient end' 62 governmentality at once entails a rationalisation of governance that can be conceived as a 'managerial activity': 'arranging things wisely in order to maximize outputs in specific fields of application'. 63 With the modus operandi of governmentality being knowledge, examination, and control of subjects (rather than coercive power and punishment), law performs a different function within this regime of power.Whereas traditionally law is conceived in terms of rules of constraint within a formal juridical structure, a governmental perspective draws attention to its productive function. 64 Relating this double function of law to the institution of sovereignty it pinpoints beyond a traditional conception in terms of sovereign rights (of non-intervention, selfdefence and non-intervention) per se, to the (productive) power of the Norm.…”

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Mobilising uncertainty and the making of responsible sovereigns

Aalberts¹,

Werner²

2011

Rev. Int. Stud.

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Abstract. The past few decades have witnessed a fundamental change in the perception of threats to the security of states and individuals. Issues of security are no longer primarily framed in terms of threats posed by an identifiable, conventional enemy. Instead, post-Cold War security policies have emphasised the global and radically uncertain nature of threats such as environmental degradation, terrorism and financial risks. What are the implications of this transformation for one of the constitutive principles of international society: state sovereignty? Existing literature has provided two possible answers to this question. The first focuses on the alleged need for states to seek international cooperation and to relax claims of national sovereignty. In Ulrich Beck's terminology, this would amount to a transformation of sovereign states into 'cosmopolitan states'. The second takes the opposite position: in response to uncertain threats states rely on their sovereign prerogatives to take exceptional measures and set aside provisions of positive law. In Beck's terminology, this would amount to the creation of a 'surveillance state'. None of these two answers, however, does justice to the complex relation between sovereignty, power and (international) law. As this article will show, the invocation of radical uncertainty has led to a transformation in sovereignty that cannot be captured in terms of the cosmopolitan/surveillance dichotomy. What is at stake is a more fundamental transformation of the way in which sovereignty is used to counter threats. Based on a study of the UN Counterterrorism Committee, this article demonstrates how state sovereignty is used as a governmental technology that aims to create proactive, responsible subjects.

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Mobilising uncertainty and the making of responsible sovereigns

Aalberts¹,

Werner²

2011

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“…While a deep history of the concepts of governance and good governance would trace their origins through the enlightenment and western liberalism, their more immediate roots are in late twentieth century development theory and practice (Pagden, 1998;Zanotti, 2005). Modernization theory and subsequent development orthodoxies focused on economic dynamics, albeit moderated by attention to basic needs, sustainability and so on and it wasn't until the late 1980s and 1990s that governance per se came into vogue in development circles, with explicit attention given to the significance of political institutions and processes.…”

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Good governance in the Pacific? Ambivalence and possibility

2007

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In September 2005, the Pacific Islands Forum issued a finalized Pacific Plan. The overarching goal of the Plan is to ''Enhance and stimulate economic growth, sustainable development, good governance and security for Pacific countries through regionalism.'' In this paper we focus on the salient role of (good) governance in the Plan. Governance has become a keyword, albeit a deeply ambivalent one, in development and foreign policy realms and the Pacific is now a particularly intense site of activities understood in terms of governance. Governance has become an important vehicle through which intervention in the region is imagined and realized.Using interviews with persons connected in various ways with the development of the Pacific Plan and from a documentary history, we address questions about the political closures and openings enabled by the governance agenda. We investigate the kinds of work that gets done in the name of governance through an analysis of the ways that it is understood, deployed and redefined in practice. To do this we turn to the Pacific Plan as our case. We find that governance, as it is defined and operationalized in the Plan, is pulled in a highly technocratic direction such that a particularly narrow conceptualization of governance dominates. Despite this disciplining process, however, the continued salience of governance as a framing device within struggles for racial and gender equality and the emergence of Pacific-based projects that act to remake governance in unexpected ways leads us to conclude that the term retains fields of meaning that allow for alternative political openings and possibilities.

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“…De fato, foi o Banco Mundial que desempenhou um papel fundamental no que toca à disseminação da noção de «boa governança» entre as organizações internacionais 89 . Na verdade, a ideia de «governança» é importante, já que a mesma enquadra a área de intervenção.…”

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Normalizando Anormais na Sociedade Internacional: Operações de Paz, Foucault e a Escola Inglesa.

Blanco¹

2017

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INTRODUÇÃOHá poucas dúvidas de que a superação de conflitos violentos pelo globo é, atualmente, um dos mais prementes assuntos internacionais. Consequentemente, a paz internacional torna-se um pilar fundamental das relações internacionais contemporâneas 1 . Assim, neste contexto, as operações de paz 2 destacadas para cenários pós-conflito tornaram-se uma crucial política internacional. Na realidade, estas são atualmente o epicentro de uma narrativa triangular que funde noções, aparentemente distantes, de segurança, desenvolvimento e paz 3 . A lógica por detrás de tal narrativa é bastante simples. Segundo esta narrativa triangular, sem segurança não há a possibilidade de existir qualquer forma de desenvolvimento; desenvolvimento, por sua vez, não apenas reforça, como, de fato, é uma condição indispensável para o incremento da segurança; ambos, juntos, são os pilares fundamentais para a transformação de conflitos violentos ao redor do globo e para a consolidação de uma paz sustentável em estados pós--conflito. Não por coincidência, as operações de paz são frequentemente retratadas como um mero instrumento técnico destacado para cenários pós-conflito buscando superar a violência, direta e estrutural 4 , nestes locais, e reconstruir países devastados pela guerra. Consequentemente, sob esta narrativa, as operações de paz são meramente um instrumento técnico internacional, projetado para restruturar as esferas política, social e econômica destes países, a fim de construir a paz. R E S U M OE ste artigo discute um dos mais importantes elementos da realidade internacional atual -a construção da paz. Mais precisamente, o artigo problematiza o papel que as operações de paz têm na política internacional. Esta problematização é avançada por meio da aproximação de ferramentas analíticas desenvolvidas pelo filósofo francês Michel Foucault e pela Escola Inglesa. O artigo argumenta que as operações de paz devem ser entendidas como um dispositivo normalizador que, ao buscarem normalizar os estados pós-conflito e suas populações, é central para o fomento e manutenção de uma sociedade internacional em particularuma sociedade internacional (neo) liberal.Palavras-chave: Operações de paz, sociedade internacional, Michel Foucault, Escola Inglesa.

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Governmentalizing the Post–Cold War International Regime: The UN Debate on Democratization and Good Governance

Cited by 62 publications

References 4 publications

Mobilising uncertainty and the making of responsible sovereigns

Mobilising uncertainty and the making of responsible sovereigns

Good governance in the Pacific? Ambivalence and possibility

Normalizando Anormais na Sociedade Internacional: Operações de Paz, Foucault e a Escola Inglesa.

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