Sumários

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8 Março 2023, 13:00 • Rita Sousa

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?

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.

T opics:
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?

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

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1 Março 2023, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

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.

Topics:
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?

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1 Março 2023, 13:00 • Rita Sousa

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?
(J ) What are the main challenges identified by practitioners in relation to external-led state-building?

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
Benjamin Miller (2001) The Concept of Security: Should it be Redefined?, Journal of Strategic Studies ,24:2,13-42

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15 Fevereiro 2023, 20:30 • Rita Sousa

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).