Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping @ 20: New Provocations in Critical World Order Studies

In this Introduction, I discuss the motivations underlying this Special Issue in honor of the 20th Anniversary of François Debrix’s Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping: The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology. Highlighting the contextual relevance of the text, I discuss the role Debrix’s work has played in the broader interrogation of disciplinary logics within the field of International Relations and beyond, as discussed by the accompanying essays. Specifically, I point to the book’s critique of economic moralism, the simulation of order, and ever-increasing virtuality of politics in the context of U.S. higher education’s transformations during the Covid-19 pandemic.