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- Björkdahl, Annika, et al.
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The Emerging EU Peacebuilding Framework: Confirming or Transcending Liberal Peacebuilding
- 2011
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Ingår i: Cambridge Review of International Affairs. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0955-7571 .- 1474-449X. ; 24:3, s. 449-469
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The EU is now emerging as a major actor in regional and global peacebuilding. The EU does not perceive conflict as endemic, and develops its policy on the basis that conflict is eminently resolvable if structural issues, needs, social injustice, and inequality are addressed. Yet its peacebuilding project is subject to some significant and familiar contradictions. We identify the basis for what may become a ‘EU peacebuilding framework’ (EUPF), and argue that while it aspires to a ‘just and durable peace’ including practical tools and a normative framework, these need to be set in critical relief. Recent research on developing a more sophisticated form of locally relevant peacebuilding (in contradistinction to the evolving, global ‘peacebuilding consensus’ and statebuilding project) indicates significant issues with the EU’s emerging approach.
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- Bousquet, Antoine, et al.
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Beyond models and metaphors : complexity theory, systems thinking and international relations
- 2011
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Ingår i: Cambridge Review of International Affairs. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0955-7571 .- 1474-449X. ; 24:1, s. 43-62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The concepts, language and methods of complexity theory have been slowly making their way into international relations (IR), as scholars explore their potential for extending our understanding of the dynamics of international politics. In this article we examine the progress made so far and map the existing debates within IR that are liable to being significantly reconfigured by the conceptual resources of complexity. We consider the various ontological, epistemological and methodological questions raised by complexity theory and its attendant worldview. The article concludes that, beyond metaphor and computational models, the greatest promise of complexity is a reinvigoration of systems thinking that eschews the flaws and limitations of previous instantiations of systems theory and offers an array of conceptual tools apposite to analysing international politics in the twenty-first century.
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- Hollis, Simon
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The global standardization of regional disaster risk management
- 2014
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Ingår i: Cambridge Review of International Affairs. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0955-7571 .- 1474-449X. ; 27:2, s. 319-338
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Natural disasters have become a heightened security issue in the last decade. Mitigating and responding to disasters, such as the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia and the 2011 earthquake in Japan, reflect a new security agenda that has spread across the globe and infiltrated most regional organizations. At first glance, the creation of regional programmes on disaster risk management (DRM) appears to be driven by the functional preferences of states. However, a comparison of ten regional organizations reveals some curious ambiguities. Despite different threat perceptions, financial budgets and geographical environments of regional organizations, a majority of states have formed DRM programmes that exhibit highly standardized features in terms of language, the referent points of protection and the apparent motivations for cooperation. World society theory is used to explain these striking similarities with reference to the global cultural system. This article also illustrates the analytical purchase of world society theory in understanding cooperation through regional organizations.
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- Holmqvist, Caroline
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War, 'strategic communication' and the violence of non-recognition
- 2013
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Ingår i: Cambridge Review of International Affairs. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0955-7571 .- 1474-449X. ; 26:4, s. 631-650
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Contemporary Western war-fighting is animated by the fictitious imagination of a war free from antagonism. In this logic, winning wars is about winning the ‘hearts and minds’ of local populations, about persuasion rather than confrontation. In recent years, the concept of ‘strategic communication’ (SC) has been elevated to the top echelons of strategic thinking in United States military circles, focusing attention on how to communicate ‘effectively’ with local populations. Via an analysis of the concept of SC, this article examines the ethico-political dimensions of contemporary Western-led ‘population-centric’ war. Through a reading inspired by Judith Butler's recent work in Precarious life (London: Verso 2006) andFrames of war (London: Verso 2009), and an analysis that turns on the link between ethics and ontology, I reflect on the significance of the ‘communications turn’ in warfare for our study of war in ontological terms.
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- Sabet, Amr
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A metahistory of the clash of civilisations
- 2012
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Ingår i: Cambridge Review of International Affairs. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0955-7571 .- 1474-449X. ; 25:3, s. 489-491
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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