International Intervention and Local Politics
Title | International Intervention and Local Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Shahar Hameiri |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2017-08-24 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108416896 |
This book advances an innovative approach to explain international interventions' uneven outcomes in given contexts, and harnesses this approach to examine three prominent case studies: Aceh, Cambodia and Solomon Islands. It is the first book comprehensively to discuss the rapidly growing literature on how interventions interface with target states and societies.
Peaceland
Title | Peaceland PDF eBook |
Author | Séverine Autesserre |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2014-05-19 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107052106 |
This book suggests a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential. Based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, it demonstrates that everyday elements - such as the expatriates' social habits and usual approaches to understanding their areas of operation - strongly influence peacebuilding effectiveness. Individuals from all over the world and all walks of life share numerous practices, habits, and narratives when they serve as interveners in conflict zones. These common attitudes and actions enable foreign peacebuilders to function in the field, but they also result in unintended consequences that thwart international efforts. Certain expatriates follow alternative modes of thinking and acting, often with notable results, but they remain in the minority. Through an in-depth analysis of the interveners' everyday life and work, this book proposes innovative ways to better help host populations build a sustainable peace.
The Politics of International Intervention
Title | The Politics of International Intervention PDF eBook |
Author | Mandy Turner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2015-09-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317486463 |
This book critically explores the practices of peacebuilding, and the politics of the communities experiencing intervention. The contributions to this volume have a dual focus. First, they analyse the practices of western intervention and peacebuilding, and the prejudices and politics that drive them. Second, they explore how communities experience and deal with this intervention, as well as an understanding of how their political and economic priorities can often diverge markedly from those of the intervener. This is achieved through theoretical and thematic chapters, and an extensive number of in-depth empirical case studies. Utilising a variety of conceptual frameworks and disciplines, the book seeks to understand why something so normatively desirable – the pursuit of, and building of, peace – has turned out so badly. From Cambodia to Afghanistan, Iraq to Mali, interventions in the pursuit of peace have not achieved the results desired by the interveners. But, rather, they have created further instability and violence. The contributors to this book explore why. This book will be of much interest to students, academics and practitioners of peacebuilding, peacekeeping, international intervention, statebuilding, security studies and IR in general.
Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa
Title | Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Callaghy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2001-12-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521001410 |
A contributory volume considering how global forces establish networks of power across Africa, first published in 2001.
Foreign Intervention in Africa
Title | Foreign Intervention in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Schmidt |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2013-03-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521882389 |
This book chronicles foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, helping readers understand the historical roots of Africa's problems.
Is Local Beautiful?
Title | Is Local Beautiful? PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Hellmüller |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 117 |
Release | 2013-12-17 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 3319003062 |
Based on the swisspeace annual conference 2012, the publication examines the delicate balance between external interventions and locally-led initiatives. It addresses the question of what “local” means in the peacebuilding and development context; which actors on the ground actually represent the local level and how external actors choose their partners from amongst them. Moreover, it examines how local ownership - emerging as key criteria for any external intervention - is constituted: does this concept only imply local participation or is local control from the outset a must? Finally, it assesses the potential of locally-led initiatives and local conflict resolution mechanisms and their interaction with external interventions. Several authors provide insights on these questions and nuance our thinking about both local ownership and external interventions. As such, the publication aims to encourage critical reflections on this topical debate in peacebuilding and development.
Global Governance and Local Peace
Title | Global Governance and Local Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna P. Campbell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2018-06-07 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108418651 |
This book explains why successful international peacebuilding depends on the unorthodox actions of country-based staff, whose deviations from approved procedures help make global governance organizations accountable to local realities. Using rich ethnographic material from several countries, it will interest scholars, students, and policymakers.