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Beyond muddling through: towards a blueprint for UK international policing and law enforcement / Blair, Stephanie; Brown, Maureen

Blair, Stephanie	Article
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The UK appears to be making a cautious return to international policing after a decade of following an approach best described as ‘muddling through’. Recent reforms and new co-ordinating structures seek to improve coherence and promote the British model of policing abroad. These are timely initiatives as international policing is also under review at the UN. Yet what is missing – argue Stephanie Blair and Maureen Brown – is a clear, pragmatic, realistic and holistic UK government strategy for international policing and law enforcement that would provide a sense of purpose, ambition and direction, and deliver coherence across UK domestic and international security objectives.

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Law Enforcement ; International Policy ; Muddling Through ; UK ; UK Domestic and International Security

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Mediating bureaucrats: embedded economic action in the Mozambican sugar industry / Buur, Lars; Nystrand, Malin J

Buur, Lars	Journal Article
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This article develops the concept of ‘mediating bureaucrats’ by exploring their role during liberal reforms that led to rehabilitation of the sugar industry in Mozambique. By focusing on how relations between the state, government and business are mediated by a group of cadres who have occupied positions in different social domains, the article argues that these ‘mediating bureaucrats’ cannot easily be identified in one-dimensional terms as belonging to either the public or private sector, the state or the market. It is argued that as ‘socially embedded actors’, the group of ‘mediating bureaucrats’ are in a position to translate and mediate between diverse and sometimes conflicting interests and aspirations of the state, the government and business. We use the rehabilitation of the sugar industry in Mozambique to show how mediating bureaucrats adopted two practices – muddling through and translation – in order to straddle conflicting interests during different reform initiatives in post-independence Mozambique.

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Mediation ; Muddling Through ; Translation ; Liberal Reforms ; Mediating Bureaucrats ; sugar sector

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US balancing role in cross-strait relations: the irony of mudding through / Clark, Cal

Clark, Cal	Journal Article
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2006.

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United States ; China ; Cross Strait Relations ; Two-Level Games ; United States - Foreign Policy - China ; Muddling Through

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