Police Peacekeeping: The UN, Haiti, and the Production of Global Social Order

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Lou Pingeot (Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for International Policy Studies, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa)

Police Peacekeeping

The UN, Haiti, and the Production of Global Social Order

Lou Pingeot (Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for International Policy Studies, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa)

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Oxford University Press
19 December 2023

Police & security services; International relations; United Nations & UN agencies; Peacekeeping operations

UN peace operations increasingly deploy police forces and engage in policing tasks. The turn to 'police peacekeeping' has generally been met with enthusiasm in both academic and policy circles, and is often understood to provide a more civilian instrument of intervention, better suited to mandates that increasingly emphasize protection. Rebuilding local police forces along democratic, liberal lines is seen as a prerequisite for a successful transition towards peace and stability. In this book, Lou Pingeot questions this optimistic reading of police peacekeeping, and demonstrates that the logic of policing leads to the depoliticization of conflict and the criminalization of those who are deemed to threaten not just public order but social order, authorizing violence against them in the name of law enforcement.

Police Peacekeeping proposes a new way of studying peace operations that focuses not on their success or failure, but on how they allow people and ideas to circulate transnationally. It shows that peace operations act as a point of cross-fertilization for the creation and transmission of policing discourses and practices globally. In so doing, these missions contribute to (re)producing social orders that are based on the exclusion of often racialized, socio-economically marginalized populations, both 'domestically' (in countries of intervention) and 'internationally' (in troop contributing countries). The book draws on and contributes to critical understandings of police power that show that police forces were never meant to protect all equally. It also furthers our understanding of policing at a global level.

Drawing on interpretive, feminist, and postcolonial methodologies that emphasize relations, processes, and situatedness, Lou Pingeot's in-depth study of UN intervention in Haiti shows how a single site can help illuminate global processes. Rather than starting from Haiti's supposed deviance from international expectations and norms, she posits that Haiti can reveal a great deal about how policing functions globally.

By: Lou Pingeot (Postdoctoral Fellow Centre for International Policy Studies Postdoctoral Fellow Centre for International Policy Studies University of Ottawa)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198886617
ISBN 10: 0198886616
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 19 December 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lou Pingeot is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa. Her research is situated at the intersection of global historical sociology, postcolonialism, and international practice theory. She is interested in the link between external and internal security and how practices and discourses of intervention circulate transnationally, with a focus on the role of police forces. She has carried out research on policing in UN peace operations and in Canada.