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Middle East and North Africa:Hegemonic modes of pacification in crisis
No full text‘Nowhere’, Henry Kissinger observes, ‘is the challenge of international order more complex — in terms of both organizing regional order and ensuring the compatibility of that order with peace and stability in the rest of the world.’ In the face of a devastating civil war in Syria, the seizure of significant parts of the Mashriq by Daesh (the self-styled ‘Islamic State’), the collapse of state authority in Libya and Israel’s frequent wars on Gaza, Kissinger’s statement might sound like common sense. Its implicit bias towards external intervention highlights one of the main issues undermining peace in the region, though: The historical subjection of Arab countries to interventions motivated by the geopolitical and strategic interests of external actors. Such interference has created or intensified fault lines within the fabric of Arab societies, ruptured homegrown state-formation processes, shored up authoritarian rulers and forged different types of resistance in the process. This chapter examines the complex interplay of national policies, international interventions and local agency in creating or mitigating challenges to peace in the Middle East and North Africa. It explains conflict in the light of the region’s hegemonic modes of pacification and their current crisis.</p
Introduction:The Contradictions of Peace, International Archhitecture, the State, and Local Agency
No full textIntroduction:The Contradictions of Peace, International Archhitecture, the State, and Local Agency
No full textIntroduction:The Contradictions of Peace, International Archhitecture, the State, and Local Agency
No full textIntroduction:The contradictions of peace, international architecture, the state, and local agency
No full textThis introductory chapter provides an overview of the four cornerstones in the relationship between different forms of conflict and peace. State formation describes the formation of the state through indigenous or internal violence between competing groups and their agendas which often turn the state into a criminal and predatory elite racket. Statebuilding is the resultant externalised process aimed at rectifying this situation. Peacebuilding focuses on external support for liberally oriented, rights-based institutions with a special and legitimating focus on norms and human rights, civil society, and a social contract via representative institutions embedded in a rule of law. Lastly, peace formation processes can be defined as the mobilisation — formal or informal, public or hidden, indigenous — of local agents of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, development, or peace actors in customary, religious, cultural, social, or local governance settings. The chapter then outlines the theoretical debates about state formation and statebuilding as well as the critique of liberal statebuilding/peacebuilding that has emerged
Introduction
No full textRecent developments and debates have outlined the need for more interdisciplinary work in international relations and peace and conflict studies. Scholars, students and policy makers are often disillusioned with universalist and Northern-dominated approaches, in terms of methodology and epistemology. Universal blueprints on how to promote, build and sustain peace have to contend with not only ineffective policy designs, but also resistance within their ‘subject’ populations. What is needed is a better understanding of the variations of peace and its building blocks, both theoretically, in different academic disciplines, and empirically, across different regions, in order to promote a more differentiated notion of peace based on comparative analysis. Such an aim points to significant methodological requirements.</p
Critical Crisis Transformation:a framework for understanding EU crisis response
No full textThis chapter sets out a key conceptual notion that underpins the book. It expands the well-known conflict response framework of conflict management, conflict resolution and conflict transformation to encompass crisis response by the EU. Thus it examines how a framework of crisis management, crisis resolution and crisis transformation may apply to the EU and expands the framework even further by considering the notion of critical conflict transformation. In keeping with other chapters in the book, it argues that elements of EU crisis response have shown signs of being progressive and emancipatory and conforming to crisis transformation or critical crisis transformation. Yet, and again as seen in later chapters, the trend has been away from emancipatory-style crisis response towards responses that emphasise security and stabilisation
Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek
No full textThis addition to Rodopi Presss Dialogue Series presents a collection of essays solely dedicated to Woman Hollering Creek (1991), Sandra Cisneross groundbreaking collection of short fiction stories and sketches. The emerging and veteran scholars who have.Intro -- SANDRA CISNEROS'S Woman Hollering Creek -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- I. Negotiating Borders: Issues of Sociocultural Cooptation -- Amphibious Women: The Complexity of Class in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- So You'll Know Who I Am: Inventory and Identity in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- The Chicana Trinity: Maternal Mestiza Consciousness in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- II. Toys, Tiny Candies, and Telenovelas: Popular and Material Culture as Storytelling Agents -- Male and Female Roles in Mexican-American Society: Issues of Domestic Violence in "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Reading the Puns in "Barbie-Q" -- The Gummy Bears Speak: Articulating Identity in Sandra Cisneros's "Never Marry a Mexican" -- Author Dialogue -- III. Images of Masculinity -- "Are you my general?": Revising Representation in "Eyes of Zapata" -- Boys to Men: Redefining Masculinities in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- IV. Images of Women: Role Expectations and Conflict -- Resemantization of Chicana Motherhood and Sexuality Through the Virgin of Guadalupe -- The Cries of La Llorona: Maternal Agency in "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Voicing Taboos in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- About the Authors -- IndexThis addition to Rodopi Presss Dialogue Series presents a collection of essays solely dedicated to Woman Hollering Creek (1991), Sandra Cisneross groundbreaking collection of short fiction stories and sketches. The emerging and veteran scholars who have.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Critical Crisis Transformation:a framework for understanding EU crisis response
No full textThis chapter sets out a key conceptual notion that underpins the book. It expands the well-known conflict response framework of conflict management, conflict resolution and conflict transformation to encompass crisis response by the EU. Thus it examines how a framework of crisis management, crisis resolution and crisis transformation may apply to the EU and expands the framework even further by considering the notion of critical conflict transformation. In keeping with other chapters in the book, it argues that elements of EU crisis response have shown signs of being progressive and emancipatory and conforming to crisis transformation or critical crisis transformation. Yet, and again as seen in later chapters, the trend has been away from emancipatory-style crisis response towards responses that emphasise security and stabilisation
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