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1. Identity, boundaries and violence -- 2. On love and hate : social identity approaches to inter-group violence -- 3. Violence and structures -- 4. Mobilization for collective violent action : multi-causal approaches -- 5. Rational choice theory : the costs and benefits of war -- 6. Telling each other apart : a discursive approach to violent conflict.

The book examines and compares the ways by which these questions are addressed from a number of perspectives: primordialism/constructivism, social identity theory, critical political economy, human needs theory, relative deprivation theory, collective action theory and rational choice theory. The final chapter aims to synthesize structure and agency-based theories by proposing a critical discourse analysis of violent conflict.

The Western state-led turn to remote forms of military intervention as recently deployed in the Middle East and across Africa is often explained as resulting from risk aversion (avoidance of ground combat), materiality ('the force of matter') or the adoption of a networked operational logic by major military powers, mimicking the 'hit-and-run' tactics of their enemies. Although recognizing the mobilizing capacities of these phenomena, we argue that the new military interventionism is prompted by a more fundamental transformation, grounded in the spatial and temporal reconfiguration of war. We see a resort to 'liquid warfare' as a form of military interventionism that shuns direct control of territory and populations and its cumbersome order-building and order-maintaining responsibilities, focusing instead on 'shaping' the international security environment through remote technology, flexible operations and military-to-military partnerships. We draw upon assemblage as a heuristic device and the case of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) to flesh out the complex and fluid nature of liquid warfare and the ways by which power operates across space. We outline how the forging of a transnational military assemblage in the name of 'hunting Kony' allowed for the buildup of an archipelago of military bases and operational capabilities across Africa, which serve as hubs for the monitoring, disrupting and containment of potential risks and dangers.

The Western state-led turn to remote forms of military intervention as recently deployed in the Middle East and across Africa is often explained as resulting from risk aversion (avoidance of ground combat), materiality ('the force of matter') or the adoption of a networked operational logic by major military powers, mimicking the 'hit-and-run' tactics of their enemies. Although recognizing the mobilizing capacities of these phenomena, we argue that the new military interventionism is prompted by a more fundamental transformation, grounded in the spatial and temporal reconfiguration of war. We see a resort to 'liquid warfare' as a form of military interventionism that shuns direct control of territory and populations and its cumbersome order-building and order-maintaining responsibilities, focusing instead on 'shaping' the international security environment through remote technology, flexible operations and military-to-military partnerships. We draw upon assemblage as a heuristic device and the case of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) to flesh out the complex and fluid nature of liquid warfare and the ways by which power operates across space. We outline how the forging of a transnational military assemblage in the name of 'hunting Kony' allowed for the buildup of an archipelago of military bases and operational capabilities across Africa, which serve as hubs for the monitoring, disrupting and containment of potential risks and dangers.

This article argues for the need to identify and grapple with the complexities of the relation between xenophobia and neoliberalism. In the case of the Netherlands, the rise of xenophobia is part of a larger process of a mostly market-controlled reclaiming of symbolic forms of collectiveness in an increasingly atomized society. The 2004 murder of Dutch filmmaker-provocateur Theo van Gogh played a crucial role in cementing a "culturalist," anti-Islam regime of truth. The analysis of the van Gogh murder informs about how, in the atomized market society, the search for new forms of togetherness has translated, in the Netherlands, into a turn to the ethnos, with fantasies of purity and the moralization of culture and citizenship. Where the neoliberal project has, largely unnoticed, abolished the collective standards and solidarities of the post-World War II era, the faces of immigrants have served as ideal, identifiable flash points for new repertoires of belonging and othering.

chapter 1 Good Governance and democracy in a world of neoliberal regimes -- chapter 2 The political economy of neoliberal governance in Latin America -- chapter 3 Que se vayan todos -- chapter 4 Governing Mexico's market democracy -- chapter 5 Triple transition and governance in El Salvador -- chapter 6 Playing Russian roulette -- chapter 7 Good governance can make bad government -- chapter 8 Clanism and predatory capitalism -- chapter 9 Between globalisation and sub-national politics -- chapter 10 Bad governance under democratic rule in Taiwan -- chapter 11 The political economy of recovery in Indonesia -- chapter 12 China's transition to industrial capitalism -- chapter 13 From new order to new world order -- chapter 14 Good governance, privatisation and ethno-regional conflict in Cameroon -- chapter 15 Global neoliberalisation and violent conflict.

Chapter 1 Good Governance and democracy in a world of neoliberal regimes -- chapter 2 The political economy of neoliberal governance in Latin America -- chapter 3 'Que se vayan todos' -- chapter 4 Governing Mexico's market democracy -- chapter 5 Triple transition and governance in El Salvador -- chapter 6 Playing Russian roulette -- chapter 7 'Good governance' can make bad government -- chapter 8 Clanism and predatory capitalism -- chapter 9 Between globalisation and sub-national politics -- chapter 10 'Bad governance' under democratic rule in Taiwan -- chapter 11 The political economy of recovery in Indonesia -- chapter 12 China's transition to industrial capitalism -- chapter 13 From new order to new world order -- chapter 14 Good governance, privatisation and ethno-regional conflict in Cameroon -- chapter 15 Global neoliberalisation and violent conflict.

This new collection critically examines the new global policy of 'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book redresses the balance. It places the prefix 'good', and exactly what that means, under the microscope and examines the impact of neoliberal governance in a wide range of countries and territories, including Chile, Russia, Argentina and Indonesia.

This new collection critically examines the new global policy of 'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book redresses the balance. It places the prefix 'good', and exactly what that means, under the microscope and examines the impact of neoliberal governance in a wide range of countries and territories, including Chile, Russia, Argentina and Indonesia.