Description
Book SynopsisTraces discourses and practices associated with normalcy in world politics. The authors focus on how dominant states and international organisations try to manage global affairs through imposing normalcy over fragile states, restoring normalcy over disaster-affected states, and accepting normalcy over suppressive states.
Trade Review“A searing exploration of the variety of ways that ‘normalcy’ functions in contemporary international affairs to justify and sustain a particular vision of acceptable politics. The authors’ critical mapping of normalization practices provides ample food for thought for anyone interested in the current condition and future prospects of liberal international order.”- Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, American University
“Normalization through normative manipulation is liberalism in action, much in evidence as the global liberal order implodes. In this conceptually innovative book, Visoka and Lemay-Hébert identify three distinctive situations in which dominant states set rules for ‘helping’ outlier states become normal and meticulously document interventionary normalization in state practice.”- Nicholas Onuf, Florida International University
"It is an excellent book: sophisticated in the argument, elegant in presentation and style. The authors convincingly present international interventions as complex governmentality arrangements where discourses and practices are deployed to normalize and discipline states. Usually, studies tend to focus solely on approaches to state-building or resilience or development or disaster-management, but the stakes here are higher.”- Pol Bargués, CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)
“This book is well-written and innovative in its conceptual contribution to the discipline of International Relations. As the notion of ‘normalization’ captures a vast number of political phenomena, it resonates with the scholarship that investigates the discursive and lived effects of wars, oppression, and disasters.”- Stefanie Kappler, Durham University
Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Mapping Normalization in World Politics
- Chapter 3: Imposing Normalcy
- Chapter 4: Restoring Normalcy
- Chapter 5: Accepting Normalcy
- Chapter 6: Towards a Society of Docile States
- References
- Index
