ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book offers an examination of the governmental rationalities that are at work in some of the key policy frameworks that have driven central areas of the reform agenda of the UN's international peacekeeping operations in recent decades. It also offers a similar analysis of thought made practical by examining the modalities of power, articulated in the form of specific governmental rationalities that circulate within the UN's security sector reform (SSR) framework and Protection of Civilians (PoC) agenda. The book focuses on the specific modes of problematization that are at work in the reform efforts of international peacekeeping operations. It further reveals how state-based thought and practice is central to the governmentality at work in the role that protection and security play in efforts to reform international peacekeeping operations.
