Sumários

Security: an historical overview

6 Março 2024, 13:00 • Joao David Terrenas

Topics:
Security during the Cold War; Broadening, Deepening and Modifying the Concept of Security; Critical vs
Traditional Security Studies; Contending Approaches and Methods to the Study of Security; Emerging
topics in the security agenda.
Key Questions:
(A) How was security studied during the Cold War?
(B) How was the concept of security broadened, deepened and modified?
(C) What key concepts of security emerged from the broadening and deepening of security?
(D) How did critical security studies challenged traditional security studies and what are the key differences
between these two groups?
(E) What are the main approaches that can be utilized to study security?
(F) What are the differences and similarities between the Aberystwyth, Copenhagen and Paris Schools of
security studies?
(G) How do constructivist, feminist and post colonial approaches engage with the study of in/security?
(H) How are research methods for the study of security re-imagined by critical scholars?
(I) What is state-building for peace?
(JJ) What are the main challenges identified by practitioners in relation to external-led state-building?
Required readings (for seminar discussion):
Question for the debate in class: Are critical approaches to security necessary? What can they tell us that
traditional perspectives cannot? Do we need/should redefine the concept of security? If so, why?
Steve Smith (1999) The increasing insecurity of security studies: Conceptualizing security in the last
twenty years,Contemporary Security Policy,20:3,72-101,DOI: 10.1080/13523269908404231
Benfjamin Miller (2001) The Concept of Security: Should it be Redefined?, Journal of Strategic
Studies,24:2,13-42

An anthropological view of conflict

1 Março 2024, 18:00 • Joao David Terrenas

The nature of violent conflict in human societies:

Ethological, archaeological, historical evidence.

Classical anthropological models:

Their difficulty incorporating aggression and conflict in its epistemological foundations.

A short history of anthropological thought, from after its evolutionist foundations to the end of the "expansive moment". The enduring legacy of durkheimianism.

A look into the historical exceptions: Max Gluckman and the Manchester School, Sol Tax and the Chicago School - the importance of the "knowledge from the field", the case-study based approach.

Changing moments, missed opportunities: the African independences didn't change the conceptual paradigm.

Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Africa, Congo-Zaire: the problem with "localizing strategies".

David Graeber's seminal testament: The nature of violent conflict in human societies

https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/

Two case-studies:

The (ir)relevance of the work of Harry Turney-High for a renewed anthropological vision of the war in human societies.

The Napoleon Chagnon controversy as example of the enduring presuppositions in anthropology.

Towards an anthropology of war and violence:

Power, violence, and collective imagination. An add-on to Lévi-Strauss's model.

The phenomenon of war and the establishment of the nation-state.

The sacralization of power and state formation and dissolution (a reading of Luc De Heusch).

The cultural concepts of war and their relation to ideologies and political systems: readings of J. Kegan (The Face of Battle, A History of Warfare).

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Trabalho autónomo:

Readings:

Ingo W. Schröder and Bettina E. Schmidt: "introduction: Violent imaginaries and violent practices". In Anthropology of Violence and Conflict. London: Routledge, 2001.

Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart: "Introduction: Terror, the Imagination, and Cosmology". In A. Strathern, P. J. Stewart (eds). Terror and Violence. Imagination and the Unimaginable. London: Pluto, 2006.

Turney-High, Harry (1949). Primitive War: Its Practice and Concepts. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.

The politics of postwar reconstruction

28 Fevereiro 2024, 20:30 • Joao David Terrenas

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?


Trabalho autónomo:

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.

The politics of post-war reconstruction

28 Fevereiro 2024, 18:00 • Manuel João Ramos

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?


Trabalho autónomo:

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)

The politics of postwar reconstruction

28 Fevereiro 2024, 13:00 • Joao David Terrenas

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?


Trabalho autónomo:

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.