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The Practice of Humanitarian Intervention
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

The Practice of Humanitarian Intervention

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-08-27
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book examines the practices in Western and local spheres of humanitarian intervention, and shows how the divide between these spheres helps to perpetuate Western involvement. Using the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a case study – an object of Western intervention since colonial times – this book scrutinizes the contemporary practice of humanitarian intervention from the inside. It seeks to expose how humanitarian aid and peacekeeping works, what obstacles they encounter and how they manage to retain their legitimacy. By examining the relationship between the West and the DR Congo, this volume asks why intervention continues to be so central for the relationship between Western...

Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa

The story of how African societies are resisting financial dependency and colonial legacies

Political Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Political Economy

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Humanitarianism and Challenges of Cooperation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Humanitarianism and Challenges of Cooperation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-02-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Humanitarianism as a moral concept and an organized practice has become a major factor in world society. It channels an enormous amount of resources and serves as an argument for different kinds of interference into the "internal affairs" of countries and regions. At the same time, and for these very reasons, it is an ideal testing ground for successful and unsuccessful cooperation across borders. Humanitarianism and the Challenges of Cooperation examines the multiple humanitarianisms of today as a testing ground for new ways of global cooperation. General trends in the contemporary transformation of humanitarianism are studied and individual cases of how humanitarian actors cooperate with o...

Challenges of European External Energy Governance with Emerging Powers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Challenges of European External Energy Governance with Emerging Powers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In a multipolar world with growing demand for energy, not least by Emerging Powers such as Brazil, India, China or South Africa (BICS), questions of EU external energy governance would at first hand appear to be a high-priority. Yet, reality tells a different story: the EU’s geographical focus remains on adjacent countries in the European neighbourhood and on issues related to energy security. Despite being Strategic Partners and engaging in energy dialogues, it seems that the EU is lacking strategic vision and is not perceived as a major actor in energy cooperation with the BICS. Thus, political momentum for energy cooperation and joint governance of scarce resources is vanishing. Resulti...

The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics

This volume offers insights from political anthropology on how to analyze and how to think about contemporary areas of internationalized political phenomena in a fresh manner. By drawing on a variety of cases like policing, budgeting, the role of monetary politics in everyday life, development agencies, and international organisations it shows the promise of an “extended experience” for the study of international politics, yet without glossing over the limits of such approaches. This book is an essential contribution to the discussion about ethnography in international relations and a bridge between disciplines.

The Distinction of Peace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

The Distinction of Peace

Investigates both the creation of the peacebuilding field and what the field reveals about global relations

The Humanitarian Civilian
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

The Humanitarian Civilian

  • Categories: Law

The aim of this series to publish original and innovative books on fundamental topical, or cutting-edge issues in international humanitarian law and international criminal justice. The primary purpose of the series is to publish books which, in addition to critically surveying existing law, also suggest new avenues for improving the law. Book jacket.

Second Image IPE
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Second Image IPE

This book argues that the lack of adequate theories of contemporary capitalism is due to the increasing separation of the sub-disciplines of Comparative and International Political Economy. Theorizing only takes place in one of the two over-specialized sub-disciplines of Political Economy, thereby leading to a neglect of the interplay between national and international dimensions of capitalism. The author seeks to rectify this gap by developing a theory of Second Image IPE. Based on the “second image” notion developed by Kenneth Waltz, he furthers the classical theoretical approaches as developed by Peter Gourevitch and Peter Katzenstein. For this purpose, he incorporates recent analytical developments in Comparative Capitalism and Growth Model analysis. The book demonstrates the usefulness of Second Image IPE theory by studying the major empirical topics of Global Political Economy, including security, finance, regional integration, trade, production and global order.

Regional Intervention Politics in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

Regional Intervention Politics in Africa

This book analyses regional interventions in African conflict spaces by engaging with political discourse theory. Interventions are a performance of agency, but what happens if interventions are performed by forces that scholars have hardly ever considered as relevant agents in this regard? Based on a study of regional politics towards the crises in Burundi and Zimbabwe, the book analyses how these interventions shaped and changed the emerging regional interveners. The book engages political discourse theory, proposing an understanding of intervention as a field, in which multiple and heterogeneous interpretations of the violence, the crisis, and the future post-conflict order ‘meet'. It i...