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The concept of the Protection of Civilians (PoC) is a prevalent buzzword in the discourse on peacekeeping operations. All actors from the military, development and humanitarian segments relate to PoC. Although there is mainstreaming and general infusion of the concept within the international community, there is no coherent and comprehensive understanding of what the concept really means and what kind of practices it comprises and entails. The concept's seminal thinkers and proponents fail to provide a clear and unambiguous definition of the concept. Rather it seeks to infuse a culture of protection among international actors operating in contexts which see grave human right violations and direct and indirect targeting of civilians. This article addresses the protection discourse as perceived by various actors in the field in Sudan. Rather than making the case for a narrow definition of PoC, we argue for mainstreaming a culture of protection, which in turn can succeed in including a multiplicity of actors. However, this may not be sufficient to engender an inclusive culture of protection, as PoC will be interpreted at the backdrop of organisations' embedded mandates and institutional culture, which in turn can lead to a general conceptual dilution.

This chapter identifies and discusses some of the ways in which kinship may be of use to IR scholars. The chapter offers examples of how kinship relations have manifested themselves historically in international relations, seeking to demonstrate how blood kinship from the beginning has been accompanied, reinforced and challenged by metaphorical kinship – that is, how certain non-blood related relations in or via practice come to be treated as kin, with the duties, obligations and expectations that entails. ; acceptedVersion

Introduction: Small States and Status / Iver B. Neumann and Benjamin de Carvalho 1 . - Chapter 1: The formative years: Norway as an obsessive status-seeker / Halvard Leira 22 . - Chapter 2: Status, small powers, and Significant Others: Re-reading Norway's attraction to Britain in the 20th century / Kristin M. Haugevik 42 . - Chapter 3: A Great Power Performance: Norway, Status and the Policy of Involvement / Benjamin de Carvalho and Jon Harald Sande Lie 56. - Chapter 4: Status and sovereign equality: Small powers in multilateral settings / Niels Nagelhus Schia and Ole Jacob Sending 73. - Chapter 5: From 'forces for good' to 'forces for status'? Small state military status-seeking / Nina Græger 86 . - Chapter 6: Gifts favour the giver: Norway, Status and the Nobel Peace Prize / Ingvild Johnsen 108 . - Chapter 7: How to be a 'front-runner': Norway and international climate politics / Bård Lahn and Elana Wilson Rowe 126 . - Conclusion: A Small Middle Power / William C. Wohlforth 146

For the last three decades, Uganda has been one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Globally praised as an 'African success story' and heavily backed by international financial institutions, development agencies and bilateral donors, the country has become an exemplar of economic and political reform for those who espouse a neoliberal model of development. The neoliberal policies and the resulting restructuring of the country have been accompanied by narratives of progress, prosperity, and modernisation and justified in the name of development. But this self-celebratory narrative, which is critiqued by many in Uganda, masks the disruptive social impact of these reforms and silences the complex and persistent crises resulting from neoliberal transformations. Bringing together a range of leading scholars on the country, this collection represents a timely contribution to the debate around the 'New Uganda', one which confronts the often sanitized and largely depoliticized accounts of the Museveni government and its proponents. Harnessing a wealth of empirical materials, the contributors offer a critical, multi-disciplinary analysis of the unprecedented political, socio-economic, cultural and ecological transformations brought about by neoliberal capitalist restructuring since the 1980s. The result is the most comprehensive collective study to date of a neoliberal market society in contemporary Africa, offering crucial insights for other countries in the global South