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159962
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International interventions are an omnipresent and increasingly diverse instrument in world politics. This special issue of Cooperation and Conflict follows broader calls to ‘decentre’ the study of International Relations and seeks to contribute to a research agenda that goes beyond the prevailing focus on Northern actors and interests in interventions research. The special issue advances two interrelated research strategies to decentre the study of international interventions. First, it promotes research that gives voice to the diversity of experiences and perspectives outside the Northern centre. Second, it embraces an emerging set of methodological advances that draw on sociological and ethnographic research traditions in order to advance the in-depth study of interventions. With contributing authors from the fields of peace and conflict studies, regional and area studies, as well as International Relations, the special issue sets out to build bridges across disciplinary boundaries by bringing together a set of experts who normally speak to separate audiences within their respective research fields. Taking research beyond the ‘classical’ cases of intervention, the articles provide in-depth case narratives of intervention practices in the Solomon Islands, Colombia, Somalia, Puntland, Côte d’Ivoire, Lebanon and Jordan.
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088936
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Europe is the region of the world where the network of security institutions is the densest. Yet, these institutions did not erase differences about conceptions of force employment among European countries and between European countries and the United States. Why have concepts of military power and force employment remained distinct and varied in Europe, and yet, what facilitates their convergence at the European Union level into the ambiguous notion of crisis management? We argue that an important answer to these questions is endogenous to the military: both role conceptions and organizational frames of military institutions are key underlying aspects of the differences at the national level and of the common ground at the European Union level. We examine and compare empirically the role conceptions and organizational frames of the armed forces in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom since the early 1990s
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133134
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2014.
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This special issue identifies new directions in research on the consequences of international involvement in security sector reform (SSR). Both empirically and theoretically, the focus lies on the so far neglected role of local agency and domestic power constellations. The introductory article maps out different ways to analyse the external-domestic interaction dynamics that structure the often contentious and asymmetric encounters between international and local interests and demands in SSR processes. It makes the case for moving beyond a state-centric approach to the study of security governance in areas of limited statehood and for engaging more closely with the layered, mixed or hybrid security orders that can result from external engagement in domestic reform contexts.
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133139
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Comprehensive Security Sector Reform (SSR) has become a crucial component of many international peace- and statebuilding operations. The paper assesses the consequences of these attempts to foster international standards of 'democratic security governance' in the security sectors of post-conflict or fragile states. The paper builds on qualitative case study research of SSR interventions in Timor-Leste, Liberia, and the Palestinian Territories, conducted 2010-2012, to trace patterns of adoption, adaptation or rejection of international security governance standards by domestic actors. The article uses insights from sociological organization theories to identify different types of 'hybrid security orders' that result from encounters between international and domestic models of security governance in SSR processes.
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