Subproject B05 — Securitization and Desecuritization in International Trusteeship Administrations
third funding stage (2022-2025)
The project aims at the analysis of the dynamics of (de)securitization in the negotiations of trusteeship administrations in the UN since the 1940s. We aim to explore the continuities and change of concepts and practices of internationalized rule, and the role of (de)securitization in the genesis of trusteeship administrations as particular repertoires of internationalized rule. Our historicizing analysis starts in the 1940s, and compares phases of trusteeship up the 1990s.
A first subproject focuses on general patterns of (de)securitization in selected trusteeship discourses in UN bodies (for example in the Trusteeship Council, the UN Security Council and the General Assembly). We have identified several phases from the mid-1940s up to the 1990s for the analysis.
The second subproject focuses on the important, but alternating role of the Soviet Union in these discourses.
Our third subproject analyses the constitutive role of security-related knowledge for trusteeship. How was the knowledge on territories and communities under trusteeship generated and translated into international vocabulary and reports?
