Isobel Roele (Queen Mary Univ. of London - Law) has published
Articulating Security: The United Nations and its Infra-Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2022). Here's the abstract:
Articulating Security explores the relationship between managerial governance and juridico-political government in the context of the UN’s Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. The strategy is described as an exercise in compositional articulation of diverse elements and the book shows how managerial technologies of performance review and strategic planning are harnessed to deliver it. The stakes of Articulating Security lie not in the underwhelming achievements of the UN Strategy, but in the disarticulating effects managerial governance has on law. The book draws on Foucault and Freud to analyse the infra-law generated by managerial governance and its reception by international lawyers. Drawing on Kristeva’s concept of abjection, it warns against the redemptive shine comparison with managerialism can give to juridico-political forms of law.
