Title: Peace as government
Description: The author argues that peace operations have a precise function in the international scenario - the maintenance of a neoliberal order in the international society. The author, analyzing the United Nations' engagement with Timor-Leste, evinces that this function is developed through the will to normalize the Timorese state and population.
Subjects: Peace-building, Politics and government, United Nations
Places: Timor-Leste
Time periods: 2002-