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Book SynopsisPeace as Government: The Will to Normalize Timor-Leste brings a problematization of post-conflict reconstruction processes by bridging two theoretical approaches that are often placed in diametrical opposite epistemic poles the analytical tools developed by Michel Foucault and the English School. The author argues that peace operations have a very precise function in the international scenario the fostering and the maintenance of a (neo)liberal order in the international society. He evinces that this particular function of peace operations is developed through the will to normalize post-conflict states and their populations. In order to advance his argument, the author analyses the United Nations' (UN) engagement with Timor-Leste, since no other country had the large number of peace operations, the wide range of spheres of engagement or the depth of involvement that the UN had in Timor-Leste. The author evinces that this will to normalize Timor-Leste is rendered operational though th
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 – A Genealogy of the UN Approaches towards International Peace Chapter 2 – The Emergence of Timor-Leste as an International Urgent Need Chapter 3: The UN’s Engagement with Timor-Leste and its Shortcomings Chapter 4 – The Surveillance Framework: Steering, Monitoring and Structuring Chapter 5 – The Transformation of Timor-Leste into a Governance State Conclusion
