CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Pienczykowski, Angelina Josephine |
|---|---|
| Title | TRACING POLICING RATIONALES IN UN ADMINISTRATIVE PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS: CASE STUDIES OF UNTEA AND UNTAC |
| Summary | In this thesis, I draw on Michel Foucault’s analysis of modern techniques of power and in particular on governmentality to analyze United Nations (UN) administrative peacekeeping missions. I argue that we can find traces of ‘old policing’ rationalities and practices manifested within the UN administrative peacekeeping missions stemming back to the first administrative mission of the United Nations Temporary Executive Authority (UNTEA) from 1962-63. I further explore the different governmentalities, and the correlated elements of police, in peacekeeping operations during the 1990s in special regards to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) mission. In this respect, I highlight both the continuities and discontinuities in policing practices that are sidelined to show that there is a much older legacy of police in peacekeeping. Sketching ‘policing’ rationalities in UNTEA’s administrative mandate will show us how these ‘policing’ rationalities were transformed into neoliberal discourses in the UNTAC case. Moreover, to take the specific angle of studying ‘policing’ towards a critical approach of UN ‘peacekeeping’ I aim to highlight the issue of policing in global politics which surprisingly has been paid little attention in International Relations. |
| Supervisor | Merlingen, Michael |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/pienczykowski_angelina.pdf |
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