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Großereignisbewerbungen als Instrument aktiver Stadtentwicklungspolitik:: Eine vergleichende Analyse mehrfach gescheiterter Städte in DeutschlandKrause, Cindy 17 December 2015 (has links)
Seit den 1990er Jahren werden Großereignisse in der Stadtsoziologie und den Planungswissenschaften als Instrumente der Stadtentwicklungspolitik diskutiert. Großereignissen wie den Olympischen Spielen, Weltausstellungen, Gartenschauen oder der Europäischen Kulturhauptstadt eilt der Ruf voraus, Entwicklungsimpulse in den Ausrichterstädten zu setzen oder einen Wendepunkt in der Stadtentwicklung zu markieren. Die fachliche Diskussion eint, dass Großereignisse die Umsetzung von Stadtentwicklungsprojekten beschleunigt. Ebenso gehört die Mobilisierung von Fördermitteln, die Bündelung personeller Ressourcen und die Stärkung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Ausrichterstadt zu weiteren bekannten Auswirkungen. Diese zu erwartenden positiven Effekte motiviert Städte immer wieder sich für Großereignisse zu bewerben.
Doch was passiert, wenn Städte mit der Großereignisbewerbung scheitern? Die Dissertation konzentriert sich auf das Phänomen, dass zwischen 2000 und 2010 eine Vielzahl deutscher Städte mehrfach mit Bewerbungen für Großereignisse scheiterten. Inwieweit bestand ein Zusammenhang zwischen den verschiedenen Bewerbungsprozessen einer Stadt bzw. zu Stadtentwicklungsstrategien? Welche Effekte riefen die Bewerbungsprozesse in den Städten hervor und worauf lassen sich die Effekte zurückführen? Diesen Fragen wird durch die Analyse von 11 Fallstädten nachgegangen. Die recherchierten und aufgearbeiteten Informationen über die gescheiterten Großereignisbewerbungen und deren Effekte zeigen, dass die Bewerbungsprozesse oftmals der Ausgangspunkt für weitere Entwicklungen gewesen sind. Bewerbungsbücher, Bewerbungskonzeptionen und Machbarkeitsstudien enthalten viele Informationen über die Bewerberstädte, Zukunftsideen und Projekte zur Verbesserung der Lebensqualität in der Stadt. Sie stellen damit Belege dar, die einen bestimmten Entwicklungsabschnitt der ehemaligen Bewerberstädte dokumentieren und strategischen Stadtentwicklungsdokumenten ähneln.
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The Arab Spring, the rise of terrorism in the Sahel and the evolution of peace and counterterrorism operations in the region : A case study of Mali and neighbouring countries and how peace and counterterrorism operations adjusted to the rise of terrorism in the regionMaio, Maria January 2023 (has links)
The Arab Spring led to the overthrow of multiple authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and North Africa and to the flow of arms and fighters from Libya to Western African countries, triggering the crisis in the Sahel and altering the security landscape of the region. The Sahel, a quite stable region, became vulnerable to the rise of terrorism due to political instability, internal conflicts dynamics and power vacuum which led to ungoverned spaces to be seen as safe havens to terrorist groups. The international community, fearing the spread of terrorism, initiated multiple operations in the region such as an UN mission in Mali – MINUSMA – and the French-led intervention in the G5 – operation Barkhane. After 9/11, a change in perception took place and terrorism now came to be seen as a transnational threat to world peace and stability, leading to the inclusion of a new role during peacekeeping operations – stabilisation – achievable by the use of military power. This study, based on secondary data research, aims to understand the transformation of peace and counterterrorism operations in the Sahel region. The study notes that the view of Sahelian states as fragile and weak and due to that the perfect target for transnational terrorism justifies the West interventions in the region. However, even under a development-security nexus, all interventions were carried out with only one purpose – fight against terrorism – as the global war on terror was seen as required to reinstate security in the Sahel. In this sense, MINUSMA can be seen as a laboratory test, also because it was working side by side with French troops which were under a counterterrorism mandate, which goes completely out of UN’s character. This mission created a dangerous precedent as it goes beyond the normal understanding of peacekeeping missions. This thesis argues that the change of peace and counterterrorism operations in the region happened due to the perception of terrorism as a transnational threat and of the Sahel region as a safe haven for the proliferation of terrorism. Moreover, all interventions had Western interests in mind and not even one was focused on addressing the underlying causes of the conflicts such as political instability, climate change and food insecurity which enlarged the humanitarian challenges in the Sahel.
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[pt] BRASIL: UMA VISÃO ALTERNATIVA À FALÊNCIA ESTATAL? / [en] BRAZIL: AN ALTERNATIVE VISION OF THE STATE FAILURE?NATALYE GEMBATIUK DE SOUZA 12 April 2019 (has links)
[pt] A proposta dessa dissertação é analisar a existência ou não de um discurso alternativo por parte do governo brasileiro frente ao discurso tradicional sobre Estados falidos. Para realizar esse trabalho partimos de uma análise do discurso tradicionalmente usado, para entender como ele é constituído, quais as palavras chaves que o formam e as implicações que ele traz inerente ao seu conteúdo. Na tentativa de observar a existência ou não de um discurso alternativo por parte do Estado brasileiro, analisaremos a posição brasileira perante dois casos com os quais o Brasil teve amplo envolvimento: Haiti e Guiné Bissau. A partir de tais casos buscaremos entender como esse discurso alternativo é constituído, como e onde ele se diferencia do discurso tradicional. Por fim tentaremos observar quais as consequências esse discurso alternativo pode prover aos ditos Estados falidos. / [en] The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the existence or not of an alternative discourse by the Brazilian government against the traditional discourse on failed States. To accomplish this work we start from an analysis of the traditionally used discourse to understand how it is made, what are the key words that form it and the implications it brings inherent to its content. In an attempt to observe the existence or nor of an alternative discourse by the Brazilian State, we will analyze the Brazilian position relative to two cases which Brazil had an extensive involvement: Haiti and Guinea Bissau. Starting from these two cases we will try to understand how this alternative discourse is constituted, how and where it differs from the traditional discourse. Finally we will try to observe what consequences this alternative discourse can provide to the so called failed States.
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The Mississippi River Delta Basin and Why We are Failing to Save its WetlandsBoudreaux, Lon, Jr. 08 August 2007 (has links)
Every thousand years or so, when the Mississippi River's sediment load lengthened and blocked the River’s route to the Gulf of Mexico, the mother stream changed course completely, finding a shorter route to the sea. Then, it built a new delta, thus spreading the gift of land creation along a wide coastline and creating the bayou region of Louisiana. However, this ancient, natural process was gradually halted by the arrival of man who settled across the River's natural floodplain (delta) and constructed levees and other structures to control the great Mississippi River. Since the 1930s, the Mississippi River Delta Basin and the coast of Louisiana have been literally losing ground. The decline of this environment is now affecting, and will continue to affect, our nation's economy, infrastructure, culture, and safety. Moreover, efforts to fix this problem are not working. My research and this thesis will address the issue of how plans without action have appeased Louisianans while the nation looses vital wetlands daily.
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The struggle for liberation and the fight for democracy : the impact of liberation movement governance on democratic consolidation in Zimbabwe and South AfricaBritz, Anna Christina 12 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MA )--Stellenbosch University, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The issue of democratic consolidation has become an important field of study in relation to
developing states, especially with regards to Southern Africa. The region’s history of
liberation struggles and the emergence of liberation movements as ruling parties are vital
factors to take into account when investigating democracy and, more specifically, democratic
consolidation in these countries. However, there are only a few comparative studies that have
looked at the effects of liberation movement governance on democracy. Therefore, in this
study two case studies – Zimbabwe and South Africa – are compared in an effort to offer
more insight into this topic.
The focus of the study was placed on how the behavior of liberation movement governments
has affected the rule of law in order to assess their impact on democratic consolidation in
general. This study follows the premise of studies in political behavior that actors’ attitudes
(in this case, liberation movements’ political cultures) affect their behavior or actions that in
turn have an influence on democratic institutions that eventually impacts democratic stability.
In order to investigate this, the two case studies were compared and discussed in terms of the
following themes: firstly, the respective liberation struggles and transitions to majority rule;
secondly, the political cultures that have developed within ZANU-PF and the ANC during the
liberation struggles; and lastly, the effect of the two parties’ behavior – informed by the
political cultures – on the rule of law, a central feature of democratic consolidation.
The findings indicate that in Zimbabwe, the rule of law disintegrated and democracy faltered
largely due to the behavior of ZANU-PF. In South Africa, on the other hand, the rule of law
has so far been upheld and the prospects for democratic consolidation seem more positive
than in the case of Zimbabwe. In the last few years, though, the ruling ANC has shown
tendencies that could prove to be detrimental to the future of democracy in South Africa. The
ANC and ZANU-PF have both exhibited an authoritarian political culture, a desire to capture
the state, tendencies towards centralization of power and the delegitimation of opposition.
However, perhaps the key explanation for the protection of the rule of law in South Africa and
the disintegration thereof in Zimbabwe has less to do with the political culture than the
constraining influence of the international context with a renewed focus on democracy and human rights and internal factors such as the constitution, civil society and a robust media.
Furthermore, Zimbabwe experienced a watershed moment in the 2000 with the constitutional
referendum which the Mugabe regime lost. With the loss of the referendum, ZANU-PF’s
democratic credentials were tested and it failed. In South Africa, such a watershed moment
has not happened yet – the ANC’s democratic credentials have yet to be tested like this.
Therefore, the future of democracy is still uncertain even though in comparison with
Zimbabwe, the prospects of democratic survival seem to be more positive. In conclusion, it is
not possible to claim that liberation movement governance in general negatively affects
democratic consolidation. The findings of the study indicate that this has definitely been the
case in Zimbabwe, but so far not in South Africa. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die kwessie van demokratiese konsolidasie het ‘n belangrike veld van studie geword in
verband met ontwikkelende lande, veral met betrekking tot Suider-Afrika. Die gebied se
geskiedenis van bevrydingstryde en die opkoms van vryheidsbewegings as regerende partye is
belangrike faktore om in ag te neem wanneer demokrasie en, meer spesifiek, demokratiese
konsolidasie ondersoek word. Tog is daar sover net ‘n paar vergelykende studies wat gekyk
het na die effekte van bevrydingsbewegings se regeerkunde op demokrasie. Gevolglik, in
hierdie studie is twee gevallestudies – Zimbabwe en Suid-Afrika – vergelyk in ‘n poging om
meer insig te bied met betrekking tot hierdie onderwerp.
Die fokus van die studie is geplaas op hoe die gedrag van regerende bevrydingsbewegings
die oppergesag van die reg beïnvloed in ‘n poging om te bepaal hoe hulle demokratiese
konsolidasie in die algemeen affekteer. Die studie volg die veronderstelling van studies in
politieke gedrag dat akteurs se houdings (in hierdie geval die politieke kulture van die
bevrydingsbewegings) beïnvloed hul gedrag of aksies wat weer ‘n invloed het op
demokratiese instellings wat uiteindelik ‘n effek het op demokratiese stabiliteit. Om dit te
ondersoek is die twee gevallestudies vergelyk en bespreek met betrekking tot die volgende:
eerstens, die onderskeidelike vryheidstryde en oorgange tot meerderheidsregerings; tweedens,
die politieke kulture wat ontwikkel het binne ZANU-PF en die ANC gedurende die
vryheidstryde; en laastens, die effek van die twee partye se gedrag – geïnspireer deur die
politieke kulture – op die oppergesag van die reg, ‘n sleutel kenmerk van demokratiese
konsolidasie.
Die bevindinge dui daarop dat die oppergesag van die reg in Zimbabwe in duie gestort het en
demokrasie gefaal het grootliks as gevolg van ZANU-PF se gedrag. In Suid-Afrika, aan die
anderkant, is die oppergesag van die reg sover gehandhaaf en die vooruitsigte vir
demokratiese konsolidasie blyk om meer positief te wees as in die geval van Zimbabwe. Tog
het die ANC oor die laaste paar jaar tendense getoon wat skadelik kan wees vir die toekoms
van demokrasie in Suid-Afrika. Die ANC en ZANU-PF het beide ‘n outoritêre politieke
kultuur geopenbaar, ‘n begeerte om beheer oor die staat oor te neem, tendense tot die
sentralisering van mag en om opposisie te ondermyn. Alhoewel, die moontlike sleutel verklaring vir die beskerming van die oppergesag van die reg in Suid-Afrika en die
disintegrering daarvan in Zimbabwe minder te doen het met die politieke kultuur as die
beperkende invloed van die internasionale konteks met ‘n hernude fokus op demokrasie en
menseregte en interne faktore soos die grondwet, die burgerlike samelewing en ‘n robuuste
media. Verder, Zimbabwe het ‘n keerpunt beleef in 2000 met die konstitusionele referendum
wat die Mugabe regime verloor het. Met die verlies van die referendum, is ZANU-PF se
demokratiese getuigskrifte getoets en dit het gefaal. Suid-Afrika het nog nie so ‘n keerpunt
beleef nie – die ANC se demokratiese getuigskrifte moet nog op so ‘n wyse getoets word.
Daarom is die toekoms van demokrasie steeds onseker, maar in vergelyking met Zimbabwe,
blyk dit dat die vooruitsigte vir demokratiese oorlewing meer positief is. Ter slotte, is dit nie
moontlik om te verklaar dat bevrydingbewegings se regeerkunde demokratiese konsolidasie
oor die algemeen negatief beïnvloed nie. Die bevindinge dui daarop dat dit definitief die geval
in Zimbabwe is, maar sover nie in Suid-Afrika nie.
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L'action internationale dans le maintien, le rétablissement et la consolidation de la paix en République démocratique du Congo de 1998 à 2008 / International action for the peace making, peace retablishment and peace building in Democratic Republic of Congo to 1990-2008Maendeleo Rutakaza, Rachel 14 January 2013 (has links)
Si l’explosion du système Est-Ouest marque la fin de l’idée de confrontation globale en tant que modèle de la guerre depuis la fin du second conflit mondial, on doit plus fondamentalement s’interroger sur les changements intervenus depuis les années 90 en ce qui concerne le statut de la guerre elle-même et sur le rôle des opérations de paix dans les relations internationales. Les crises politiques découlant de conflits internes sont des sources de déstabilisation et de fragilisation des institutions locales qui subissent le tumulte et affaiblissent la capacité des acteurs à sortir d’une telle situation politique. La nécessité de renforcer les capacités locales pendant cette période charnière afin d’éviter les crises récurrentes se traduit par la présence de la Communauté internationale qui déploie une multitude de stratégies. Il existe en effet, dans la grammaire des Nations Unies, un continuum de modes de gestion des crises qui va des formes les plus réservées de la persuasion à certaines modalités de diplomatie coercitive, impliquant un usage limité de la violence. Lorsqu’on examine les opérations de paix en RDC, un ensemble dynamique de tensions et de liaisons, oscillant entre ordre et désordre dans ses expressions institutionnelles, le constat qui se dégage est que la question de la paix exige une analyse qui prenne en compte plusieurs facteurs. D’où le recours à une approche interdisciplinaire, mobilisant des courants critiques au sein des relations internationales tout en alliant la sociologie des relations internationales. Notre approche interdisciplinaire qui est au centre de cette thèse peut aussi être d’un grand intérêt dans le renforcement de l’approche polémologique, elle-même fort utile pour appréhender les modalités de gouvernance par les groupes politico-militaires. Notre étude s’attache à évaluer la pertinence et la cohérence des pratiques et conduites des acteurs internationaux pour mieux dégager les contours axiologiques et idéologiques de la gestion des crises itératives. / If the explosion of the East/West system marks the end of the idea of global confrontation as model of the war since the end of the second world conflict, we more fundamentally have to wonder about the changes which took place since the 90s as regards the status of the very war and about the role of the peace operations in the international relations. The political crises ensuing from internal conflicts are sources of destabilization and weakening of the local institutions which undergo the tumult and weaken the capacity of the actors to go out of such a political situation. The necessity of strengthening the local capacities during this pivotal period to avoid the recurring crises is translated by the presence of the international community which spreads a multitude of strategies. There is indeed in the grammar of United Nations a continuum in the modes of crises’ management which goes the most reserved forms of the persuasion to certain modalities of coercive diplomacy, implying a use limited by the violence. When we examine the peace operations in RDC, dynamic set tensions and connections, oscillating between order and disorder in its institutional expressions, the report which gets free is that the question of the peace requires an analysis which takes into account several factors. Hence the use of an interdisciplinary approach, involving both critical currents in international relations (critical constructivism) while combining the sociology of international relations. Our study attempts to estimate the relevance and the coherence of the practices and the conducts of the international actors in a better way axiological and ideological outlines of the management of the iterative crises.
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[en] POSTCOLONIAL READING OF THE UNITED NATIONS NEW PEACE OPERATIONS: THE CASE OF SOMALIA / [pt] UMA LEITURA PÓS-COLONIAL SOBRE AS NOVAS OPERAÇÕES DE PAZ DA ONU: O CASO DA SOMÁLIAMARTA REGINA FERNANDEZ Y GARCIA MORENO 13 May 2019 (has links)
[pt] A tese oferece uma leitura pós-colonial sobre as novas operações de paz da ONU a partir do caso da Somália. O argumento central é o de que tais operações são informadas por uma velha lógica, a da teoria da modernização, a qual, por sua vez, deita suas raízes nas teorias racistas e evolucionistas do século
XIX. Nesse sentido, a tese sugere que essas novas operações são guiadas pela mesma lógica logocêntrica que informou o imperialismo europeu e a ação subseqüente do Conselho de Tutela das Nações Unidas. A tese visa a desestabilizar o ineditismo das novas operações de paz por meio da análise genealógica de um caso específico, o somali. Argumenta-se que a construção discursiva das sociedades alvo de tais operações como atrasadas, falidas ou pré-modernas cria as condições de possibilidade para as operações de paz conduzidas pelas Nações Unidas em nome da salvação, do progresso e da modernização das mesmas. Logo, a produção da descontinuidade/inovação das operações de paz em relação ao passado colonial depende da construção da continuidade das sociedades alvo de tais operações vistas como sujeitas a conflitos ancestrais e endógenos, ligados a um passado pré-colonial; revelando, desse modo, uma dependência mútua entre as identidades moderna e tradicional. A tese sugere que o reconhecimento do caráter híbrido das sociedades pós-coloniais, presente na perspectiva pós-colonial, nos permite desestabilizar o discurso logocêntrico subjacente às novas operações de paz da ONU. / [en] This dissertation offers a postcolonial reading about the new UN peace operations from the case of Somalia. The central argument is that these operations are informed by an old logic, namely: the modernization theory, which, in turn, lays its roots in evolutionary and racist theories of the nineteenth century. Thus, this dissertation suggests that these new operations are guided by the same logocentric logic that informed the European imperialism and the subsequent action of the United Nations Trusteeship Council. This research aims at destabilizing the novelty of the new peace operations through the genealogical analysis of a particular case: Somalia. It is argued that the discursive construction of the target societies of these operations as backward, failed or pre-modern creates the conditions of possibility for peace operations undertaken by the United Nations on behalf of salvation, progress and modernization of such societies. It is argued that the production of discontinuity and innovation of the new peace operations in relation to the colonial past depends on the construction of the continuity of the societies subject to these operations which are seen as under ancestral and endogenous conflicts tied to a pre-colonial past; revealing therefore the mutual dependency between the identities modern and traditional. Finally, the dissertation suggests that the recognition of the hybrid character of the postcolonial societies by the postcolonial perspectives allows us to destabilize the logocentric discourse underlying the new peace operations.
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La responsabilité de protéger et l’internationalisation des systèmes politiques / Responsibility to protect and internationalization of political systemMvé Ella, Léandre 11 December 2018 (has links)
Sous l’angle du droit international, la responsabilité de protéger est traditionnellement analysée dans le but de déterminer sa portée normative. L’attrait de la doctrine internationaliste pour la question de la normativité du principe et l’indifférence habituelle du droit international vis-à-vis du système politique des États ont fini par confiner les développements sous les prismes parfois trop réducteurs du droit international et des relations internationales. Cette recherche entend proposer une perspective différente en prenant le contre-pied de cette approche classique. Elle aborde la problématique de la responsabilité de protéger non plus seulement sous l’angle des intervenants tiers à l’État défaillant, mais également, et surtout sous celui de cet État lui-même et de sa population. Il s’agit donc de revisiter la façon d’appréhender la responsabilité de protéger afin de montrer que le droit international n’est plus indifférent face aux systèmes politiques des États — a fortiori en crise. En interrogeant le lien entre la responsabilité de protéger et le système politique de l’État, l’analyse aboutit irrémédiablement à la conclusion selon laquelle la responsabilité de protéger est « enchassée » dans de normes qui ne sont pas exclusivement juridiques et qu’il convient dorénavant d’analyser en réseau. L’étude propose donc désormais de la qualifier de norme de congruence dès lors qu’elle conduit à apprécier la valeur juridique d’une règle de droit en tenant compte des différentes influences contenues dans celle-ci / From the perspective of international law, the responsibility to protect is traditionally analyzed in order to determine its normative scope. The attractiveness of the internationalist doctrine for the question of the normativity of the principle and the habitual indifference of international law to the political system of States ended up confining developments to the sometimes overly simplistic prisms of international law and international relations.This research intends to propose a different perspective by taking a contrary view of this classic approach. It addresses the issue of the responsibility to protect not only the point of view of third parties to the failed state, but also, and above all, the State itself and its population. It is therefore a question of revisiting the approach of apprehending the responsibility to protect in order to show that international law is no longer indifferent to the political systems of the States - let alone in crisis.In questioning the link between the responsibility to protect and the state's political system, the analysis leads irreparably to the conclusion that the responsibility to protect is “enshrined” in norms that are not exclusively legal and that currently analyze in the network. The study therefore proposes to define it as an norme de congruence since it leads to the assessment of the legal value of a rule of law taking into account the different influences contained in it
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O padrão de atuação das empresas de segurança privada: o caso de AngolaPaoliello, Tomaz Oliveira 09 June 2011 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2011-06-09 / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo / Nowadays, one of the phenomena that draws attention and raises the debate
within the discipline of international relations is the rise of the so-called private
security companies. The present dissertation studies the inclusion of such
companies in the Angolan context during the 1990s. This inclusion is marked
by two moments, the first one paradigmatic for the literature on the subject,
the particular action of the company Executive Outcomes. Secondly, we
discuss the development of a local market for private security, built by a series
of devices that make the Angolan landscape a unique and poorly studied
model. Angola was a testing ground for the actions of the private security
companies, but turned out to be an exceptional case with a number of local
companies providing security for the country during its own internal conflict,
and making them fundamental for the design of Power in Angola. This
situation is derived from a number of specific features of the Angolan history,
especially the continued violence and the perpetuation of state fragility. We
further explore the discussion on the role of private security companies as
new actors in the international system, and observe the range of findings
about these companies when confronted with the case of Angola / Nos dias de hoje, um dos fenômenos que chama atenção e suscita o debate
no âmbito da disciplina de relações internacionais é a ascensão das
chamadas empresas de segurança privada. A atual dissertação se dedica ao
estudo da inserção de tais empresas no contexto angolano durante os anos
1990. Essa inserção é marcada por dois momentos, um primeiro,
paradigmático para a literatura sobre o tema, trata da ação particular da
empresa Executive Outcomes. Num segundo momento, abordamos o
desenvolvimento de um mercado local para a segurança privada, construído
por uma série de dispositivos que fazem do panorama angolano um modelo
único e ainda pouco estudado. Angola foi um campo de teste para a atuação
das empresas de segurança privada, mas acabou se transformando num
caso excepcional, com uma série de empresas locais provendo a segurança
para o país durante o conflito interno, e tornando-se fundamentais para o
desenho de poder em Angola. Essa situação é derivada de uma série de
especificidades da história angolana, notadamente a permanente violência, e
a perpetuação da fragilidade do Estado. Desenvolvemos a discussão sobre o
papel das empresas de segurança privada como novos atores no sistema
internacional, e observamos o alcance das descobertas sobre tais empresas
quando confrontadas com o caso de Angola
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O conceito de estados fracassados nas relações internacionais: origens, definições e implicações teóricas / The failed states concept in international relations: origins, definitions and theoretical implicationsMonteiro, Leandro Nogueira 19 April 2007 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2007-04-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The concepts of state weakness and failure as used nowadays in academic debates
and in political discourse have been evolving since the 1980 s. These concepts were
based on the ideas proposed by Robert H. Jackson in his 1982 article with Carl
Rosberg Why Africa s Weak States Persist and in his 1990 book Quasi-states.
Nevertheless, it was after the end of the Cold War that conjuncture contributed to
structure the concept of failed state , and to turn it into regular language in both
academic and political entourages. These factors were namely the influence of liberal
paradigms in the immediate post-Cold War times, and the consequent debates on
sovereignty, intervention and human rights, as well as the aftermaths of the events of
September 11th, 2001, with the securitisation of the failed state idea. This paper
seeks, firstly, to exhibit a brief history of the use of the failed state concept in the
post-Cold War era. Secondly, it seeks to present the conceptualisation of state failure
such as used by the literature, throwing some light over those conceptual cores that
provide unity to the diverse definitions of state failure. Thirdly, it seeks to present
some implications of the development of the Failed state concept to the broader
theoretical field of International Relations, especially regarding Liberalism, Realism
and Post-Positivism / As concepções de fraqueza e de fracasso estatais, nos moldes das acepções
utilizadas atualmente no debate acadêmico e no discurso político, vêm-se
desenvolvendo desde a década de 1980, fundadas mais especificamente nas idéias
apresentadas por Robert H. Jackson em seu Why Africa s Weak States Persist: the
Empirical and the Juridical in Statehood , de 1982 (em parceria com Carl Rosberg), e
seu Quasi States: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World , de 1990.
Não obstante, foi no pós-Guerra Fria que importantes fatores conjunturais
contribuíram para a estruturação do conceito de Estado fracassado e para a
popularização de seu uso, em ambos ambientes acadêmico e político. Entre esses
fatores destacam-se, nomeadamente, a influência dos paradigmas liberais no
imediato pós-Guerra Fria e os conseqüentes debates sobre soberania, intervenção e
direitos humanos, que forneceram uma base intelectual consistente; e os eventos do
11 de setembro de 2001 e seus desdobramentos, que reforçaram a securitização do
termo. Este trabalho procura, em primeiro lugar, traçar um breve histórico da
utilização do conceito de Estado fracassado no pós-Guerra Fria. Em segundo lugar,
busca apresentar a conceituação do fracasso estatal tal como desenvolvido pela
literatura, iluminando aqueles eixos conceituais que provém unidade às diferentes
definições de fracasso estatal. Em terceiro lugar, pretende apresentar algumas das
implicações do desenvolvimento desse conceito sobre o corpo teórico da disciplina
de Relações Internacionais, com ênfase no Liberalismo, no Realismo e no Pós-
-Positivismo
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