1.Introduction -- 2.Peace and Security in Northern Uganda -- 3.Transnational Organized Crime and Structural Violence in Brazil -- 4.The Multi-Level Dimensions of Peace: The New Macro Regionalism in Europe -- 5.Mental Health, Trajectories and Quality of Life: A Proposal for New Understandings of DDR Processes in Colombia -- 6.Demobilization, Rehabilitation and Reintegration in the Ivory Coast -- 7.Assessing the Future of Managing Economic and Financial Terrorism Risks in Kenya -- 8.Assessing Defence Reform Since 1990. .
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Commentary:Organisations like the International News Safety Institute (INSI), formed in 2001 and based in Brussels, have created an impressive global network to help news workers facing danger on assignment; as well, big networks such as the BBC, CNN and the ABC have adopted measures including battlefield security courses, protective gear, first-aid training, and carefully-rehearsed exit strategies. Despite all this, reporters are still being targeted, and too many governments are still ignoring, and even giving support to, the killing of journalists.
Abstract How do individuals navigate international politics and mitigate the anxieties it elicits in the everyday? Giddensian literature on ontological security suggests that (collective) internalized routines and narratives provide a sense of certainty and stability that enable individuals to "go on" with their daily lives. This article adopts a Kleinian psychoanalytical approach to show that when faced with anxiety about their internalized narratives being ruptured, individuals do not necessarily, as Giddens suggests, fall into "chaos." Rather, they rely on psychodynamic defense mechanisms such as denial and idealization to protect their sense of self and, by extension, maintain a sense of ontological security. The article investigates everyday practices of how people cope with anxiety related to international politics. It focuses on the case of the European Union by analyzing the reactions to political cartoons of participants from eighteen focus groups conducted in Belgium, France, and Italy. The findings provide, in turn, a deeper understanding of individuals' everyday defense mechanisms in response to threats to collective narratives of being and belonging. The article thereby advances our theoretical and empirical knowledge of how international politics can affect individuals' everyday life and sense of self as well as shape political behavior and attitudes.
This unique combination of analytically detailed essays with statistics, glossary, and comprehensive bibliography make this title a unique one-stop reference source as well as a training and education guide on the politics of defence worldwide. Introductory and concluding essays€are authored by the editors, to connect the overall conceptual framework with issues addressed in individual chapters.
