{"title":"Normalization Interventions in World Politics","authors":"Gëzim Visoka, N. Lemay-Hébert","doi":"10.1080/17502977.2023.2235168","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT International interventions are accompanied by different discursive frameworks. We argue that understanding the intricate, fluid, and effective interventions in global politics would benefit from exploring the discourse and practice of normalization. We identify three different types of normalization practices, those that aim: to impose a new normalcy on fragile states; to either restore or build a more resilient normalcy in disaster-affected states; and those that are prepared to accept an endogenous normalcy in suppressive states. The article aims to contribute to current debates by exposing how normalization is invoked interchangeably as a method, process, and outcome of interventions.","PeriodicalId":46629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2023.2235168","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT International interventions are accompanied by different discursive frameworks. We argue that understanding the intricate, fluid, and effective interventions in global politics would benefit from exploring the discourse and practice of normalization. We identify three different types of normalization practices, those that aim: to impose a new normalcy on fragile states; to either restore or build a more resilient normalcy in disaster-affected states; and those that are prepared to accept an endogenous normalcy in suppressive states. The article aims to contribute to current debates by exposing how normalization is invoked interchangeably as a method, process, and outcome of interventions.
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The Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding is a cross-disciplinary journal devoted to critical analysis of international intervention, focussing on interactions and practices that shape, influence and transform states and societies. In 21st century political practice, states and other actors increasingly strive to transplant what they see as normatively progressive political orders to other contexts. Accordingly, JISB focuses on the complex interconnections and mutually shaping interactions between donor and recipient communities within military, economic, social, or other interventional contexts, and welcomes perspectives on political life of, and beyond, European state-building processes. The journal brings together academics and practitioners from cross-disciplinary backgrounds, including international relations, political science, political economy, sociology, international law, social anthropology, geography, and regional studies. The editors are particularly interested in specific or comparative in-depth analyses of contemporary or historical interventions and state-building processes that are grounded in careful fieldwork and/or innovative methodologies. Multi or cross-disciplinary contributions and theoretically challenging pieces that broaden the study of intervention and state building to encompass processes of decision-making, or the complex interplay between actors on the ground, are especially encouraged.