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Regionalising Global Crises: The Financial Crisis and New Frontiers in Regional Governance
Full text linkHow are global crises, such as the current financial crisis, responded and dealt with? What are the consequences? Are there any links between regionalism and global crises in terms of stimuli, processes, and consequences? This edited volume brings together a range of examples to illustrate the development and importance of regional actors in the global governance of the political economy.
Regionalising Global Crises highlights the regional level dynamics that exacerbate or contribute to solving the global economic crisis. It also explores the potential for change in the governance of the global political economy and international financial architecture by assessing the current and past financial crises through regional lenses. In particular, it addresses the debates that have emerged on the roles of regions and regional actors by undertaking empirical investigation of the impact of the crises on Africa, Europe, BRICS, and East Asia and their reactions to those events. As such it will provide an important empirical and methodological resource for students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in regional actors, comparative regionalism and international political economy
Introduction to Part I
No full textStudying Africa-European Union (EU) relations as ‘EU-Africa Relations’ is now an established subfield, particularly within studies on EU foreign policy. While recent years has seen the expansion in practice of Africa-EU relations outside of its traditional focus on development assistance and trade to new areas of cooperation such as science and technology and gender equality, among others, the former continues to dominate how one understand the relationship. This chapter contextualises how Africa-EU relations has been theorised. It focuses on International Studies and shows how this has helped them conceptualise African agency. In recent years, the literature has caught up such that African perspectives can inform some theorising of Africa-EU relations. The development of comparative regionalism, especially, has facilitated this attention to the African side of the story. The normative turn in regionalism and the empirical changes in regionalism in the Global South (especially Africa and Latin America) have created the space for Africa’s visibility in regional integration discourses
Introduction:Energy and Resistance in/to 'Feminist' Foreign Policy
No full textJust over a decade after the first feminist foreign policy (FFP) was adopted by Sweden in 2014, a wealth of related research, policy, and advocacy has emerged. This Introduction takes stock of these developments, tracing key trajectories in both scholarship and practice, while also reflecting on the broader implications of these developments on our current moment in global politics. First, the Introduction outlines the emergence of FFP as a distinct object of analysis, highlights the landmarks that have shaped the field, and situates FFP within the context of the anti-gender and anti-feminist global backlash. Second, it maps different strands in the literature, with particular attention to newer themes and actors. While early research focused largely on the FFPs of Sweden and Canada, often adopting a liberal and celebratory orientation, recently, critical feminist perspectives informed by intersectionality, postcolonial, and decolonial approaches, have expanded the field, extending analysis to policy domains such as the environment and migration, among others. It also examines contestations in FFP praxis, including their implications for knowledge production. Finally, the Introduction summarizes the contributions of each chapter in the collection and how they collectively expand the FFP field
Introduction:Energy and Resistance in/to 'Feminist' Foreign Policy
No full textJust over a decade after the first feminist foreign policy (FFP) was adopted by Sweden in 2014, a wealth of related research, policy, and advocacy has emerged. This Introduction takes stock of these developments, tracing key trajectories in both scholarship and practice, while also reflecting on the broader implications of these developments on our current moment in global politics. First, the Introduction outlines the emergence of FFP as a distinct object of analysis, highlights the landmarks that have shaped the field, and situates FFP within the context of the anti-gender and anti-feminist global backlash. Second, it maps different strands in the literature, with particular attention to newer themes and actors. While early research focused largely on the FFPs of Sweden and Canada, often adopting a liberal and celebratory orientation, recently, critical feminist perspectives informed by intersectionality, postcolonial, and decolonial approaches, have expanded the field, extending analysis to policy domains such as the environment and migration, among others. It also examines contestations in FFP praxis, including their implications for knowledge production. Finally, the Introduction summarizes the contributions of each chapter in the collection and how they collectively expand the FFP field
Conclusion
No full textThis conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores changing dynamics and uncertainties of the relationship between Africa and the European Union (EU). It acknowledges the role of a rising agency of African actors and how it has been playing to reframe and transform the unequal rules of the game between the two blocs. The book analyses the institutions, rules, norms, narratives and practices that have moulded the behaviour of African actors vis-a-vis their EU counterparts and assesses new opportunities for cooperation between them to tackle global challenges. Since 2015, the AU has increasingly asserted its role as representing pan-African interests in the global arena
The German Bundestag: Rubber Stamp or Strategic Player? Parliamentary Scrutiny in the Decision-making Process of Common Security and Defence Policy Operations
Full text linkReview of Bourbeau, Philippe, ed., Security: Dialogue across Disciplines
Full text linkFirst paragraph: In everyday narratives of being, security is and has always been a prominent feature. In the social sciences and humanities, it is the subject and object of curiosity, exploration, critique, and application. It is thus not surprising that it is once again the subject of “scientific” inquiry curated by Philippe Bourbeau in the well-researched Security: A Dialogue Across Disciplines.Output Type: Book Revie
Book Review: Handbook on Gender and War by Simona Sharoni, Julia Welland, Linda Steiner and Jennifer Pedersen, eds.
No full textFirst paragraph: The Handbook on Gender and War, edited by Simona Sharoni, Julia Welland, Linda Steiner and Jennifer Pedersen, is an important one-stop shop for feminist theorising on war. Each chapter takes different perspectives on gender to create a well-rounded and interdisciplinary interrogation of gender’s interaction with the processes of war. Below, I reflect on the essence of each of the book’s four sections.Output Type: Book Revie
EU as mentor? Promoting regionalism as external relations practice in EU–Africa relations
No full textThis article examines regionalism in the context of the EU inter-regional relations with Africa. It especially focuses on the EU-African Union (AU) relationship. It evaluates this relationship using a typology based on the policy diffusion literature and challenges the notion that the AU is a model of the EU. It addresses the institutionalisation of Africa's own regional integration process in the context of the EU's broader external relations practice, which prioritises support for local processes. Rather than a model, the article argues that the EU is best placed to serve as mentor to the AU as the latter seeks to foster regional integration in Africa. By mentoring, the EU is able to fulfil its overarching external relations commitments to local ownership, and realise deepened further integration in Africa
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