19 Março 2025, 18:00
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Manuel João Ramos
The session will present the basic concepts of conflict resolution, and will discuss how they relate to the different peace and security activities carried out by international partnerships and organisations.
Lecture/Conference by General Carlos Branco (retired).
DAALDER, Ivo and GOLDGEIER, James (2006) "Global NATO", Foreign Affairs, Vol. 85, NO. 5., pp. 105-112.
UN Agenda for Peace: Gathering a body of global agreeements
Terminology
12 Março 2025, 18:00
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Manuel João Ramos
With Prof. João Terrenas (UBI)
Key topics:
- New wars and failed states; Post-war reconstruction; From peace-building to peace-keeping; Dilemmas of Statebuilding; Conventional and Emerging approaches to state-building
Key Questions:
- What does postwar reconstruction mean?
- Where does it fit alongside concepts like peacekeeping, peacemaking, peacebuilding, nationbuilding and statebuilding?
- What is the Liberal Peace thesis?
- What is a failed state?
- How did practices of postwar reconstruction evolved?
- What are the main differences between the four waves of postwar reconstruction?
- What are the dimensions of postwar reconstruction and stabilization?
- What are the main challenges identified by practitioners?
- What are the key issues linked to international intervention and postwar reconstruction as practiced since the 1990s?
- How contested is liberal postwar reconstruction in the literature?
- Is liberal postwar reconstruction viable?
- What is the concept of resilience and in what way does it affect liberal postwar reconstruction?
- How does contemporary postwar reconstruction affect the concepts of autonomy and sovereignty?
Suggested Readings:
- Ikenberry, G. J. (2009) 'Liberal Internationalism 3.0: America and the Dilemmas of Liberal World Order', Perspectives on Politics, 7(1): 71-87.
- Paris, R. and Timothy Sisk (eds) (2009) The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations (Routledge 2009).
- Helman, G. B and Ratner, S. R., 'Saving Failed States, Foreign Policy , No. 89 (Winter, 1992-1993), pp. 3-20
- Doyle, Michael (2005) 'Three Pillars of the Liberal Peace', American Political Science Review, 99/3.
- Richmond, O. P. (2010) (ed.), Palgrave Advances in Peacebuilding. Critical Development and Approaches. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Ch. 1.
- Rocha Menocal, A. (2011). 'State Building for Peace: a new paradigm for international engagement
- in post-conflict fragile states?', Third World Quarterly,32(10), 1715-1736.
- Paris, R. and Timothy Sisk (eds) (2009) The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations. Abingdon: Routledge. Chapter 1: Introduction
- Department for International Development (2010) Building Peaceful States and Societies. Available at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/67694/Buildingpeaceful-
- states-and-societies.pdf
- United States Institute for Peace (2009) Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction. http://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/guiding_principles_full.pdf
- Paris, R. (2010) 'Saving liberal peacebuilding', Review of international studies, 36(2): 337-365.
- Cooper, N., Turner, M., & Pugh, M. (2011). The end of history and the last liberal peacebuilder: a reply to Roland Paris. Review of international studies,37(4), 1995-2007.
- J ahn, B. (2007) 'The Tragedy of Liberal Diplomacy: Democratization, Intervention, Statebuilding. Part I, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 1(1): 87-106.
- Jahn, B. (2007) 'The Tragedy of Liberal Diplomacy: Democratization, Intervention, Statebuilding
- (Part II)', Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 1(2): 211-229.
- Mac Ginty, R. (2010) 'Hybrid Peace: The Interaction Between Top-Down and Bottom Up Peace', Security Dialogue, 42(3): 391-412.
- Chandler, D. (2013) 'International Statebuilding and the Ideology of Resilience', Politics, 33(4), 276-286.
- Joseph, J. (2013) 'Resilience as embedded neoliberalism: a governmentality approach', Resilience, 1(1), 38-52.
- Chandler, D. (2006) Empire in Denial: The Politics of State-Building. London: Pluto Press. Introduction.
- Chandler, D. (2008) Statebuilding and Intervention: Policies, Practices, and Paradigms. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Chandler, D. (2010) International Statebuilding: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance Abingdon: Routledge. Introduction and Ch. 3.
- Darby J. (2008) and Roger Mac Ginty, Contemporary Peacemaking. Conflict, Peace Processes and Post-war Reconstruction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Dobbins, James et al (2007) The Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building. Santa Monica, CA: RAND. Summary and Ch. 1. Available online. http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG557.pdf
- Fukuyama, F. (2005) Statebuilding. Governance and Order in the Twenty-First Century. London: Profile Books.
- Hehir, A. and Neil Robinson (eds) (2007) State-Building: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge. Ch. 1.
Other resources:
International Crisis Group - http://www.crisisgroup.org/
Carnegie Endownment (Political Reforms) - http://www.carnegieendowment.org/topic/?fa=list&id=351
UK Government Stabilization Unit - http://www.stabilisationunit.gov.uk/
ISOA - association of private forms active in peace and stability operations - http://stabilityoperations.
org/index.php
RAND (Nationbuilding) - http://www.rand.org/topics/nation-building.html
OECD - http://www.oecd.org/site/dacpbsbdialogue/
New Deal - Building Peaceful States - http://www.newdeal4peace.org/
US Department of State (Bureau of Conflict Stabilization Operations) -
http://www.state.gov/j/cso/index.htm
Documentaries and movies:
Green Zone (2010)
Control Room (2004)
Restrepo (2010)
Statebuilding in Theory and Practice
Iraq-No End in Sight (2007)
The Death of Yugoslavia (1995)
How to Build a Country from Scratch (2011)
