Normalization in World Politics

Gëzim Visoka author Nicolas Lemay-Hebert author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Michigan Press

Published:8th Feb '22

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As we face new challenges from climate change and the rise of populism in Western politics and beyond, there is little doubt that we are entering a new configuration of world politics. Driven by nostalgia for past certainties or fear of what is coming next, references to normalcy have been creeping into political discourse, with people either vying for a return to a past normalcy or coping with the new normal.

This book traces main discourses and practices associated with normalcy in world politics. Visoka and Lemay-Hébert mostly focus on how dominant states and international organizations try to manage global affairs through imposing normalcy over fragile states, restoring normalcy over disaster-affected states, and accepting normalcy over suppressive states. They show how discourses and practices come together in constituting normalization interventions and how in turn they play in shaping the dynamics of continuity and change in world politics.

Normalization in World Politics is a conceptually rich and compelling book that presents a novel and engaged theory of normalization. It will be of interest to scholars across the discipline for some time to come.”
--Perspectives on Politics

* Perspectives on Politi

ISBN: 9780472039012

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212 pages