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In this chapter, "The Cold Peace," Michael A. Peters and James Thayer critique prevailing notions of "peace" and its application to issues of social justice and citizenship as it underlies peace education and peace studies emphasizing how issues of conflict and security for the twenty-first century are embedded within a post-national and post-liberal framework that shifts our understanding of peace, security, and risk toward a post-Cold War and post-Cold Peace context. This displacement of the liberal nation-state and citizen is more accurately articulated by the neoliberal state and mobilized through a disciplined citizen-subject. In this setting, transnational activity, corporations, and governance have reinstated a new highly centralized global form of governance and governmentality that has positioned the nation-state as one of the multiple governing actors. Moreover, this has placed issues of peace and security as issues of what can and cannot be governed. As such, our critical understanding of peace and conflict must be remade and reinstituted. Peters and Thayer examine the concept of "Crimes against Peace" and the way it was formulated after Nuremberg before discussing neoconservatism and the "new American century," the globalization of violence, and the postmodernization of peace and the neoliberalization of security. These features constitute the new liberal montage that is recalibrating the concept of peace and peace education in the era of globalization.

DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3945-3_2

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