Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Suzan Ilcana, Rob Aitken
    Postwar World Order, Displaced Persons, and Biopolitical Management
    in Globalizations , Volume 9, Issue 5 ,  2012 ,  623-636
    In building on the scholarship that recognizes the complexity of world order, we emphasize that emerging notions of world order were connected to postwar planning efforts that involved liberal conceptions of reconstruction and the management of vulnerable populations, such as displaced persons. We argue that one way in which world order was constituted was through a biopolitical orientation, one that takes ‘life’ and ‘population’ as key objects of intervention. This orientation, key to the work of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), stimulated diverse practices in the expansion of an array of expertise, in the initiation of health, shelter, and food procedures for targeted populations, and in the development of the biopolitical management of these populations. Our analysis shows that postwar world order was a matter of intervention and of taking seriously how certain experts, populations, and calculated information entered into its fields, activities, and projects of reconstruction.
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