title: Weaving the Tapestry of Life: The United Nations and Global Governmentality
abstract: Weaving the Tapestry of Life. The United Nations and Global Governmentality My doctoral research evolves around the question how the Secretaries-General have been constructing the UN as a peculiar subject in world politics, and how this construction is linked to the cognitive structures in which global governance is imagined. These problems are best comprehensible in a post-structuralist framework, where structures of knowledge and discourses are typical tools for doing research. This approach h