Reimagining Security Communities

Author : Francis Onditi,Gilad Ben-Nun,Edmond M. Were,Israel Nyaburi Nyadera
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030708683

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Reimagining Security Communities by Francis Onditi,Gilad Ben-Nun,Edmond M. Were,Israel Nyaburi Nyadera Pdf

This book utilizes a systems thinking perspective to propose a holistic framework of analysis and practice for the regional security community (“RSC”) arrangement in Africa. In responding to the challenge of improving effectiveness of response to peace and security threats, African states tend to rely on ad hoc mechanisms. However, this approach has been mired with a myriad of structural limitations. The holistic framework reconfigures the traditional “RSC” into a simplified tool kit of “resources”, making this text book ideal for students and advanced researchers in international relations, and all those concerned with regional security and strategic studies.

Author : Francis Onditi,Gilad Ben-Nun,Edmond M. Were,Israel Nyaburi Nyadera
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030708696

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Reimagining Security Communities by Francis Onditi,Gilad Ben-Nun,Edmond M. Were,Israel Nyaburi Nyadera Pdf

This book utilizes a systems thinking perspective to propose a holistic framework of analysis and practice for the regional security community (“RSC”) arrangement in Africa. In responding to the challenge of improving effectiveness of response to peace and security threats, African states tend to rely on ad hoc mechanisms. However, this approach has been mired with a myriad of structural limitations. The holistic framework reconfigures the traditional “RSC” into a simplified tool kit of “resources”, making this text book ideal for students and advanced researchers in international relations, and all those concerned with regional security and strategic studies.

Author : Daniele Archibugi,David Held,Martin Köhler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804735352

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Re-imagining Political Community by Daniele Archibugi,David Held,Martin Köhler Pdf

Understanding world politics today means acknowledging that the state is no longer the only actor in international relations. The interstate system is increasingly challenged by new transnational forces and institutions: multinational companies, cross-border coalitions of social interest groups, globally oriented media, and a growing number of international agencies. These forces increasingly influence interstate decisions and set the agenda of world politics. Though these phenomena have been discussed in the recent literature of international relations, little attention has been given to their impact on political life within and between communities. This book aims to explore the changing meaning of political community in a world of regional and global social and economic relations. The authors of the essays in this volume, who reflect a variety of academic disciplines, reconsider some of the key terms of political association, such as legitimacy, sovereignty, identity, and citizenship. Their common approach is to generate an innovative account of what democracy means today and how it can be reconceptualized to include subnational as well as transnational levels of political organization. Inspired by Immanuel Kant’s cosmopolitan principles, the authors conclude that favorable conditions exist for a further development of democracy--locally, nationally, regionally, and globally.

Author : Mark A. Drumbl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199592654

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Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy by Mark A. Drumbl Pdf

Child soldiers are generally perceived as faultless, passive victims. This ignores that the roles of child soldiers vary, from innocent abductee to wilful perpetrator. This book argues that child soldiers should be judged on their actions and that treating them like a homogenous group prevents them from taking responsibility for their acts.

Author : Nicole Nguyen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452959160

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Suspect Communities by Nicole Nguyen Pdf

The first major qualitative study of “countering violent extremism” in key U.S. cities Suspect Communities is a powerful reassessment of the U.S. government’s “countering violent extremism” (CVE) program that has arisen in major cities across the United States since 2011. Drawing on an interpretive qualitative study, it examines how the concept behind CVEaimed at combating homegrown terrorism by engaging Muslim community members, teachers, and religious leaders in monitoring and reporting on young peoplehas been operationalized through the everyday work of CVE actors, from high-level national security workers to local community members, with significant penalties for the communities themselves. Nicole Nguyen argues that studying CVE provides insight into how the drive to bring liberal reforms to contemporary security regimes through “community-driven” and “ideologically ecumenical” programming has in fact further institutionalized anti-Muslim racism in the United States. She forcefully contends that the U.S. security state has designed CVE to legitimize and shore up support for the very institutions that historically have criminalized, demonized, and dehumanized communities of color, while appearing to learn from and attenuate past practices of coercive policing, racial profiling, and political exclusion. By undertaking this analysis, Suspect Communities offers a vital window into the inner workings of the U.S. security state and the devastating impact of CVE on local communities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004526013

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Yearbook on the African Union Volume 2 (2021) by Anonim Pdf

This is the second edition of the Yearbook on the African Union (YBAU). The YBAU is first and foremost an academic project that provides in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its engagements

Author : Jeremiah O. Asaka,Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000610109

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Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa by Jeremiah O. Asaka,Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo Pdf

This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and a research agenda for future studies. Human security takes a people-centered rather than state-centered approach to security issues, focusing on whether people feel safe, free from fear, want, and indignity. This book investigates human security in East Africa, encompassing issues as diverse as migration, housing, climate change, displacement, food security, aflatoxins, land rights, and peace and conflict resolution. In particular, the book showcases innovative original research from African scholars based on the continent and abroad, and together the contributors provide policy recommendations and set forth a human security research agenda for East Africa, which encompasses Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti. As well as being useful for policy makers and practitioners, this book will interest researchers across African Studies, Security Studies, Environmental Studies, Political Science, Global Governance, International Relations, and Human Geography. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Author : Annamarie Bindenagel Šehović
Publisher : Springer
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319720685

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Reimagining State and Human Security Beyond Borders by Annamarie Bindenagel Šehović Pdf

This book delves into the diffuse relationship between states, citizens, and non-citizens. It explores the theoretical heritage of human security and identifies practical responses to the (re)negotiated relationships between states and citizens, responsibility and accountability. It argues that the changes to global order since the 1990s have resulted in a divergence from the understanding of the State as the arbiter within its territory, and as the guarantor of (human) security within its borders. In addition, while interventionist actions of various non-state actors to implement material guarantees of (human) security reaching both citizens and non-citizens (including refugees) have solved some immediate problems, they have not answered the question of where accountability ultimately lies.

Author : Jack Donnelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009355186

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Systems, Relations, and the Structures of International Societies by Jack Donnelly Pdf

Argues that systems approaches are necessary in order to identify and understand important features of the world.

Author : International Commission on the Futures of Education
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231004780

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Reimagining our futures together by International Commission on the Futures of Education Pdf

The interwoven futures of humanity and our planet are under threat. Urgent action, taken together, is needed to change course and reimagine our futures.

Author : Julie Levy,Kevin Horecka,Peter Joseph Wolf,E. Susan Amirian
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832503195

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Reimagining Animal Sheltering: Support Services and Community-Driven Sheltering Methods by Julie Levy,Kevin Horecka,Peter Joseph Wolf,E. Susan Amirian Pdf

Author : Jutta Weldes
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081663307X

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Cultures of Insecurity by Jutta Weldes Pdf

Genocide in Rwanda, instability in the Middle East, anarchy on the Internet -- insecurities abound. But do they occur "naturally, " or are they, as this pathbreaking volume suggests, cultural and social productions? Bringing together scholars from political science and anthropology, this collection of essays redirects long-standing views on culture as both a source of insecurity and an object of analysis. The authors present studies whose topics range from traditional security concerns, such as the Cuban missile crisis, the Korean War, and he Middle East, to less conventional issues, including the Internet and national security, multiculturalism and regional economy in New Mexico.

Author : Campbell, Elizabeth,Pahl, Kate
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447333326

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Re-imagining Contested Communities by Campbell, Elizabeth,Pahl, Kate Pdf

This look offers a close look at contested communities through the lens of Rotherham, an English town struggling to survive in terms of its image, profile and identity. Recently divided, and left reeling, from the powerful impact of the Jay report on Child Sexual Exploitation, and increasingly used as a center for activism and agitation by the far right, Rotherham could be seen as an exemplar of a contested community. But what happens when a community confronts an identity that has been forced upon it? How does a community re-define itself? More than simply a book about Rotherham, this is a book about history, culture, feelings, methods and ideas that will help to articulate the lived meanings of political cultures in Britain today.

Author : Karen J. Greenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108484381

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Reimagining The National Security State by Karen J. Greenberg Pdf

A comprehensive look at the toll US government policies took on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name of the war on terror.

Author : Adriaan van Klinken
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780197644157

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Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa by Adriaan van Klinken Pdf

Religion is often seen as a conservative force in contemporary Africa. In particular, Christian beliefs and actors are usually depicted as driving the opposition to homosexuality and LGBTI rights in African societies. This book nuances that picture, by drawing attention to discourses emerging in Africa itself that engage with religion, specifically Christianity, in progressive and innovative ways--in support of sexual diversity and the quest for justice for LGBTI people. The authors show not only that African Christian traditions harbor strong potential for countering conservative anti-LGBTI dynamics; but also that this potential has already begun to be realized, by various thinkers, activists and movements across the continent. Their ten case studies document how leading African writers are reimagining Christian thought; how several Christian-inspired groups are transforming religious practice; and how African cultural production creatively appropriates Christian beliefs and symbols. In short, the book explores Christianity as a major resource for a liberating imagination and politics of sexuality and social justice in Africa today. Foregrounding African agency and progressive religious thought, this highly original intervention counterbalances our knowledge of secular approaches to LGBTI rights in Africa, and powerfully decolonizes queer theory, theology and politics.