Lou Pingeot is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa. Her research is situated at the intersection of global historical sociology, postcolonialism, and international practice theory. She is interested in the link between external and internal security and how practices and discourses of intervention circulate transnationally, with a focus on the role of police forces. She has carried out research on policing in UN peace operations and in Canada.
Police Peacekeeping demonstrates how the field-based activities of peacekeeping missions -- as opposed to simply their mandated limitations -- could be productively understood in conversation with the recent wave of abolitionist scholarship. In doing so, Pingeot's book thus joins a strong group of existing historical, IR, and socio-legal literature that has begun to examine long lineages of policing in the West. Police Peacekeeping provides a crucial new dimension to these largely domestic studies by tracking the globalization of policing methods through the humanitarian guise of UN peacekeeping. * Margot Tudor, International Peacekeeping *