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In: Survival: global politics and strategy, Band 66, Heft 1, S. 159-165
ISSN: 1468-2699
Governing resettlement: Interrogating tensions and contradictions around age, vulnerability, and integrate-ability in the Irish context
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 425-446
ISSN: 1461-703X
Deploying a lens informed by humanitarian reason and governmentality this article interrogates the normative assumptions underlying resettlement for international protection in the Irish context. Drawing on findings from a qualitative study on the needs of children and parents admitted under the Irish Refugee Protection Programme, it highlights tensions and contradictions underemphasised in the existing literature, including those deriving from assumptions which inversely associate age with integrate-ability. Such assumptions place a heavy burden on the young, perceived to be the most adaptable. The danger pointed to in this article is that those deemed least adaptable - adults with limited prior education - might not be prioritised for supports due to negative assumptions about their prospects. Somewhat paradoxically, the 'most adaptable' – children resettled at primary-school age or younger – might also miss out on supports as they are deemed likely to succeed in any case.
Africa
In: Survival: global politics and strategy, Band 65, Heft 1, S. 162-168
ISSN: 1468-2699
R2P at the UN: The Problem of Selective History and Incomplete Narratives
In: Global responsibility to protect: GR2P, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 273-276
ISSN: 1875-984X
Abstract
The current discussion on R2P at the UN is largely ahistorical or at most informed by selective historical references, which exclude earlier forms of intervention aimed at atrocity prevention, particularly by states in the global South. This contribution argues that the result is a skewed understanding of the practice of intervention that serves to deny agency to actors outside of the West and undermines the framing of atrocity prevention and R2P as an issue of global concern.
Africa
In: Survival: global politics and strategy, Band 64, Heft 1, S. 201-207
ISSN: 1468-2699
Better with less: (Re)governmentalizing the government of childhood
In: The international journal of sociology and social policy, Band 39, Heft 1/2, S. 68-83
ISSN: 1758-6720
Reshaping International Relations: Theoretical Innovations from Africa
In: All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace
South Africa and the Responsibility to Protect: from champion to sceptic
In: International relations: the journal of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 391-405
ISSN: 1741-2862
This article provides an overview of the South African government's evolving position on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). While the country was an advocate of R2P in the run-up to the 2005 United Nations (UN) World Summit and the related idea of non-indifference in Africa, its conduct while serving as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and subsequent developments have raised questions about its continued commitment to these principles. In particular, Resolution 1973 (2011) on Libya proved to be a turning point. It is argued that while South Africa continues to support the broad idea of civilian protection, it is in favour of a consultative, regional approach and has become increasingly critical of what it views as the selective application and militarisation of the R2P. In trying to make sense of the apparent contradictions in South Africa's position, it is necessary to situate the debate against the background of broader tensions in its foreign policy, particularly around the promotion of human rights. These, in turn, are linked to divergent and multiple foreign policy identities that the post-apartheid state is still coming to terms with.
South Africa and the Responsibility to Protect: From champion to sceptic
This article provides an overview of the South African government's evolving position on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). While the country was an advocate of R2P in the run-up to the 2005 United Nations (UN) World Summit and the related idea of non-indifference in Africa, its conduct while serving as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and subsequent developments have raised questions about its continued commitment to these principles. In particular, Resolution 1973 (2011) on Libya proved to be a turning point. It is argued that while South Africa continues to support the broad idea of civilian protection, it is in favour of a consultative, regional approach and has become increasingly critical of what it views as the selective application and militarisation of the R2P. In trying to make sense of the apparent contradictions in South Africa's position, it is necessary to situate the debate against the background of broader tensions in its foreign policy, particularly around the promotion of human rights. These, in turn, are linked to divergent and multiple foreign policy identities that the post-apartheid state is still coming to terms with.
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South Africa in Africa and the World: The Diplomatic Strategies of a Global–Regional Power
In: Diplomatic Strategies of Nations in the Global South, S. 125-151
Constructing the Child in Need of State Protection: Continuity and Change in Irish Political Discourse, 1922–1991
In: The Journal of the history of childhood and youth, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 309-323
ISSN: 1941-3599
Opportunities and obstacles to cooperation between the BRICS: A view from South Africa
In: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22193
Cooperation between the BRICS states is often framed as being a part of new forms of South-South Cooperation (SSC). This is clearly problematic, given the presence of Russia, which is neither geographically nor historically part of the Global South, and China, which sufers from schizophrenia when it comes to its identity as part of the developing world. In spite of this, South-South rhetoric is used by both policymakers and scholars when referring to BRICS. This needs to be problematized as it suggests a particular kind of cooperation – diferent from traditional North-South cooperation. The idea of SSC tends to evoke a positive image of solidarity between developing countries through the exchange of resources, technology, and knowledge. This is intended to shift the international balance of power and help developing nations break away from aid dependence and achieve true emancipation from former colonial powers – with the underlying assumption that it is always mutually benefcial (mutual beneft being one of the principles of SSC identifed by the UN ofce for SSC).
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Book Review: Handbook of Africa's International Relations
In: Journal of peacebuilding & development, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 132-133
ISSN: 2165-7440
Handbook of Africa's International Relations
Africa has been, and continues to be, marginalised in both the practice and study of international relations (IR). However, in light of the increased influence of the emerging powers on the continent, and Africa's improved pro- spects for economic growth and develop- ment, in recent years there has been a renewed interest in its role in the international system. This book responds to what the editor calls 'the emerging political prominence of the African con- tinent on the world stage' (1) by providing one of the most comprehensive overviews of Africa's IR to date.
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