Abstract
In this Introduction, I discuss the motivations underlying this Special Issue in honor of the 20th Anniversary of François Debrix’s <em>Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping: The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology</em>. Highlighting the contextual relevance of the text, I discuss the role Debrix’s work has played in the broader interrogation of disciplinary logics within the field of International Relations and beyond, as discussed by the accompanying essays. Specifically, I point to the book’s critique of economic moralism, the simulation of order, and ever-increasing virtuality of politics in the context of U.S. higher education’s transformations during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Highlights
ABSTRACTIn this Introduction, I discuss the motivations underlying this Special Issue in honor of the 20th Anniversary of François Debrix’s Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping: The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology
Over the last ten years, Critical IR scholars have targeted neoliberal order by various means: interrogating the normative underpinnings of American foreign policy; the institutional power grabs behind humanitarian discourses of responsibility; and the aesthetic deployment of neoliberal subjectivity by way of multiculturalist ideals, among other themes.[4]. Contributors to this forum have been invited to reflect on the influence of Debrix’s text on their work, as well as how distinct facets of neoliberal ideology operate within the study of global politics
Francine Rossone de Paula’s intervention, “The (Dis)Order of Things and the Perception of History,” highlights the various reinventions of historical reasoning that today “haunt us in its different forms and appearances...[offering] us an opportunity to challenge our linear perceptions of temporality.”[20]. By drawing on Debrix’s analysis of the UN’s ideological projection of peacekeeping rationalities, Rossone de Paula thinks with Debrix to further “[question] the grounds upon which we are able to make affirmations about continuities and discontinuities and about the course of history and visions of global order.”[21]. In her piece, “Chasing Giants: Simulation and the United Nations’ Trompe l’oeil Games,” Linea Cutter interrogates the ideology of disciplinary liberalism as deployed globally via so-called humanitarian interventions
Summary
ABSTRACTIn this Introduction, I discuss the motivations underlying this Special Issue in honor of the 20th Anniversary of François Debrix’s Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping: The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology.
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