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A Human Security Doctrine for Europe explores the actual needs of
individual people in conflict areas, rather than using a
conventional institutional or geo-political perspectives. This new
volume proposes that Europe should develop a new kind of human
security capability that involves the military, the police and
civilians all working together to enforce law rather than to fight
wars. It argues that threats such as weapons of mass destruction or
terrorism can only be countered if we address the insecurity of
people in all parts of the world. Many people in the world lead
intolerably insecure lives. In large parts of Africa, the Balkans,
Central Asia and the Middle East, men and women live in daily fear
of violent attacks, kidnapping, rape, extortion, robbery or
trafficking. The existence of large military apparatuses does not
create security; indeed, as in Iraq, the use of regular military
forces may only make things worse. This stimulating study includes:
two chapters setting out the changed global context and proposing
new approaches to security five regional studies on the Balkans,
the Great Lakes Region, the Middle East, the South Caucasus and
West-Africa four studies on different aspects of EU security
policy, including the legal setting, the role of women, operational
principles and the role of the new member states four operational
studies on capabilities, resources and institutional embedding
Written by a diverse team of international experts, this book will
of be of strong interest to students and researchers of security
studies, peace studies, human rights and international relations.
A new examination of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from a
political science and international relations perspective. It
describes the main features of the court and discusses the
political negotiations and the on-going clashes between those
states who oppose the court, particularly the United States, and
those who defend it. It also makes these issues accessible to
non-lawyers and presents effective advocacy strategies for
non-governmental organizations. It also delivers essential
background to the place of the US in international relations and
makes a major contribution to thinking about the ICC's future.
While global civil society does not deliver global democracy, it
does contribute to more transparent, more deliberative and more
ethical international decision-making which is ultimately
preferable to a world of isolated sovereign states with no
accountability outside their borders, or exclusive and secretive
state-to-state diplomacy. This book will be of great interest to
students and scholars of international relations, international
law, globalization and global governance.
This book examines the International Criminal Court (ICC) from a
political science and international relations perspective. It
describes the main features of the Court and discusses the
political negotiations and the on-going clashes between those
states who oppose the Court, particularly the United States, and
those who defend it.
Secondly it explores how international law-making, and in
particular the building of global institutions, has changed in the
last decade, using negotiations and struggles surrounding the
establishment of the ICC as an example. The input of organizations
and individuals from civil society in the process of establishing
the ICC was unprecedented and the author goes on to evaluate the
merits and difficulties of this new involvement of global civil
society in international law-making and institution-building.
The author argues that while global civil society does not deliver
global democracy, it does contribute to more transparent, more
deliberative and more ethical international decision-making which
is ultimately preferable to a world of isolated sovereign states
with no accountability outside their borders, or exclusive and
secretive state-to-state diplomacy.
This edited collection sets out a new approach to security which
focused on the European Union. It argues that threats to Europeans
like weapons of mass destruction or terrorism can only be countered
if we address the insecurity of people in different parts of the
world.
Many people in the world lead intolerably insecure lives. In large
parts of Africa, the Balkans, Central Asia or the Middle East, men
and women live in daily fear of violent attacks, kidnapping, rape,
extortion, robbery or trafficking. The existence of large military
apparatuses do not create security; indeed, as in Iraq, the use of
regular military forces may only make things worse.
This edited volume explores the needs of people in conflict areas,
rather than taking an institutional or geo-political perspective.
It proposes that Europe should develop a new kind of human security
capability that involves the military, the police and civilians all
working together to enforce law rather than to fight wars. The book
is a record of the work of the Study Group on Europe's Security
Capabilities, an independent group convened at the request of EU
High Representative Javier Solana to advise on the future of
European security policy. It is the first comprehensive academic
and policy response to the European Security Strategy, published by
the European Union in December 2003. Apart from the Study Group's
Barcelona Report, it contains fifteen studies especially
commissioned by the Study Group to help develop its approach:
- Two introductory contributions setting out the changed global
context and proposing new approaches to security
- Five regional studies on the Balkans, the Great Lakes Region, the
Middle East, the South Caucasus and West-Africa
- Four framework studies on different aspects of EU security
policy, including the legal setting, the role of women, operational
principles and the role of the new member states
- Four operationalstudies on capabilities, resources and
institutional embedding
Written by a diverse team of international experts, this book will
of be of strong interest to students and researchers of security
studies, peace studies, human rights and international relations.
The concept of civil society was reinvented in Eastern Europe and
Latin America in the 1980s and has subsequently travelled to all
corners of the globe, both through intellectual exchange and
through the official language of donors and politicians. To some,
this spread represents part of a neo-imperialist project of
imposing Western hegemony. For most activists, however, civil
society is not about fostering global capitalism, minimising the
state or disseminating western values but about increasing the
responsiveness of political institutions. It is about the
radicalisation of democracy and the redistribution of political
power. different cultural contexts and examines its impact on
politics worldwide. Comparing and contrasting civil society in
Latin America and Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the United
States, Africa and South Asia, and the Middle East, the
contributors show that there are multiple interpretations of the
concept that depend more on the particular political configuration
in different parts of the world than on cultural predilections.
They also demonstrate that the power of civil society depends less
on abstract definitions and more on the extent to which it is
grounded in the context of actual experiences from around the
world. Ronnie Lipschutz and Helmut Anheier. There is continued and
growing interest in civil society particularly in the disciplines
of politics and sociology. Given the book's broad and regional
focus it will also be of interest to area studies specialists and
those studying development economics.
This volume explores how the idea of civil society has been
translated in different cultural contexts and examines its impact
on politics worldwide. Comparing and contrasting civil society in
Latin America and Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the United
States, Africa and South Asia, and the Middle East, the
contributors show that there are multiple interpretations of the
concept that depend more on the particular political configuration
in different parts of the world than on cultural predilections.
They also demonstrate that the power of civil society depends less
on abstract definitions, and more on the extent to which it is
grounded in the context of actual experiences from around the
world.
This book includes some of the biggest names in the area such as
Mary Kaldor, Ronnie Lipschutz and Helmut Anheier.
This volume considers the dynamic relations between the
contemporary practices of international criminal tribunals and the
ways in which competing histories, politics and discourses are
re-imagined and re-constructed in the former Yugoslavia and beyond.
There are two innovative aspects of the book - one is the focus on
narratives of justice and their production, another is in its
comparative perspective. While legal scholars have tended to
analyze transitional justice and the international war tribunals in
terms of their success or failure in establishing the facts of war
crimes, this volume goes beyond mere facts and investigates how the
courts create a symbolic space within which competing narratives of
crimes, perpetrators and victims are produced, circulated and
contested. It analyzes how international criminal law and the
courts gather, and in turn produce, knowledge about societies in
war, their histories and identities, and their relations to the
wider world. Moreover, the volume situates narratives of
transitional justice in former Yugoslavia both within specific
national spaces - such as Serbia, and Bosnia - and beyond the
Yugoslav. In this way it also considers experiences from
other countries and other times (post-World War II) to offer a
sounding board for re-thinking the meanings of transitional justice
and institutions within former Yugoslavia. Included in the volume's
coverage is a look at the Rwandan tribunals, the trials of Charles
Taylor, Radovan Karadzic, the Srebrenica genocide, and other war
crimes and criminals in the Yugoslav. Finally, it frames all
of those narratives and experiences within the global dynamics of
legal, social and geo-political transformations, making it an
excellent resource for social science researchers, human rights
activists, those interested in the former Yugoslavia and
international relations, and legal scholars.
This volume considers the dynamic relations between the
contemporary practices of international criminal tribunals and the
ways in which competing histories, politics and discourses are
re-imagined and re-constructed in the former Yugoslavia and beyond.
There are two innovative aspects of the book - one is the focus on
narratives of justice and their production, another is in its
comparative perspective. While legal scholars have tended to
analyze transitional justice and the international war tribunals in
terms of their success or failure in establishing the facts of war
crimes, this volume goes beyond mere facts and investigates how the
courts create a symbolic space within which competing narratives of
crimes, perpetrators and victims are produced, circulated and
contested. It analyzes how international criminal law and the
courts gather, and in turn produce, knowledge about societies in
war, their histories and identities, and their relations to the
wider world.
Moreover, the volume situates narratives of transitional justice
in former Yugoslavia both within specific national spaces - such as
Serbia, and Bosnia - and beyond the Yugoslav.In this way it also
considers experiences from other countries and other times
(post-World War II) to offer a sounding board for re-thinking the
meanings of transitional justice and institutions within former
Yugoslavia. Included in the volume's coverage is a look at the
Rwandan tribunals, the trials of Charles Taylor, Radovan Karadzic,
the Srebrenica genocide, and other war crimes and criminals in the
Yugoslav.Finally, it frames all of those narratives and experiences
within the global dynamics of legal, social and geo-political
transformations, making it an excellent resource for social science
researchers, human rights activists, those interested in the former
Yugoslavia and international relations, and legal scholars.
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This open access book offers a synthetic reflection on the authors'
fieldwork experiences in seven countries within the framework of
'Authoritarianism in a Global Age', a major comparative research
project. It responds to the demand for increased attention to
methodological rigor and transparency in qualitative research, and
seeks to advance and practically support field research in
authoritarian contexts. Without reducing the conundrums of
authoritarian field research to a simple how-to guide, the book
systematically reflects and reports on the authors' combined
experiences in (i) getting access to the field, (ii) assessing
risk, (iii) navigating 'red lines', (iv) building relations with
local collaborators and respondents, (v) handling the psychological
pressures on field researchers, and (vi) balancing transparency and
prudence in publishing research. It offers unique insights into
this particularly challenging area of field research, makes
explicit how the authors handled methodological challenges and
ethical dilemmas, and offers recommendations where appropriate.
This book challenges the assumption that authoritarianism is
necessarily a phenomenon located at the level of the state, and
that states as a whole are therefore either democratic or
authoritarian. Its central aim is to shed light on manifestations
of authoritarianism that are not confined to the 'territorial trap'
of the modern state, and are not captured by the concept of an
authoritarian regime. Redefining authoritarianism from a practice
perspective allows us to understand how authoritarian practices
unfold and evolve within democracies and in transnational settings,
in what circumstances they thrive, and how they are best countered.
Authoritarian Practices in a Global Age provides a parsimonious
framework for recognizing and analysing contemporary manifestations
of authoritarianism beyond the state, alongside a number of
empirical case studies. The empirical chapters cast a wide net.
They comprise a study of transnational repression by authoritarian
states; two chapters on informal and formal multilateral
collaboration in anti-terrorist policies; a chapter on corporate
and public-private authoritarian practices in the mining sector;
and a chapter on cover-ups of child sexual abuse in the Catholic
Church. The concluding chapter draws out commonalities and unique
features from the case studies, thereby setting out a research
agenda for future work. Authoritarian practices, once
operationalized as demonstrated in this book, can and must be
classified and compared, and causal connections established with
other phenomena such as violence, corruption, and inequality, if we
are to suggest ways of responding to them.
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