Professor David Chandler

2011

'Introduction' (with Susanna Campbell and Meera Sabaratnam) and

'The Uncritical Critique of Liberal Peace'

in Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam (eds) A Liberal Peace? The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding (London: Zed Books, 2011), pp.1-9; pp.174-190. ISBN 978-1780320021

Book synopsis: Moving beyond the binary argument between those who buy into the aims of creating liberal democratic states grounded in free markets and rule of law, and those who critique and oppose them, this timely and much-needed critical volume takes a fresh look at the liberal peace debate. In doing so, it examines the validity of this critique in contemporary peacebuilding and statebuilding practice through a multitude of case studies - from Afghanistan to Somalia, Sri Lanka to Kosovo. Going further, it investigates the underlying theoretical assumptions of liberal peacebuilding and statebuilding, as well as providing new theoretical propositions for understanding current interventions. Written by some of the most prominent scholars in the field, alongside several new scholars making cutting edge contributions, this is an essential contribution to a rapidly growing interdisciplinary area of study.

Contents: Introduction: The Politics of Liberal Peace - Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam Part I: Introducing the Debate 1. A Brief Intellectual History of International Conflict Management, 1990-2010 - Meera Sabaratnam 2. Critiques of Liberal Peace - Roland Paris Part II: Not Such a 'Liberal' Peace? Rethinking Intervention 3. Why Peacebuilding is Toothless: Sovereignty, Patrimonialism and Power - Ole Jacob Sending 4. The Liberal Peace - A Tough Sell? - Christoph Zuercher 5. Routine Learning? How Peacebuilding Organizations Prevent Liberal Peace - Susanna Campbell 6. Promoting Women's Rights in Afghanistan: The Ambiguous Footprint of the West - Torunn Wimpelmann Chaudhary, Orzala Ashraf and Astri Suhrke 7. Neither Liberal nor Peaceful? Practices of 'Global Justice' by the ICC - Adam Branch 8. Civil Society Beyond the Liberal Peace and its Critique - Thania Paffenholz Part III: Rethinking the Critique: What Next? 9. Alternatives to Liberal Peace? - Roland Paris 10. The Uncritical Critique of Liberal Peace - David Chandler 11. Reality Check: The Critique of the Liberal Peace Meets the Politics of State-Building - Shahar Hameiri 12. Hybrid Peace: How does hybrid peace come about? - Roger Mac Ginty 13. Resistance and the Post-Liberal Peace - Oliver P. Richmond 14. Situated Critiques of Intervention: the Diverse Politics of Response - Meera Sabaratnam.

'Building Global Civil Society "From Below"?' and

'Rhetoric Without Responsibility: The Attraction of Ethical Foreign Policy'

in Mervyn Frost (ed.) International Ethics, Volumes Two and Three (London: Sage, 2011). ISBN 978-1412947206

Book synopsis: The SAGE Library of International Relations brings together the most influential and field-defining articles, both classical and contemporary, in a number of key areas of research and inquiry in International Relations. Each multi-volume set represents a collection of the essential published works collated from the foremost publications in the field by an editor or editorial team of renowned international stature. They also include a full introduction, presenting a rationale for the selection and mapping out the discipline's past, present and likely future. frost ethics This series is designed to be a 'gold standard' for university libraries throughout the world with an interest in International Relations. Actors in international politics need to navigate a host of ethical challenges when deciding how to act in a certain context. They are confronted by the question: "What, from an ethical point of view, ought I to do?" with regard to a wide range of issues including the conduct of war, the just distribution of aid and trade, human rights, the care of the global environment, the rights of asylum seekers and refugees, genocide, money laundering, global terror and many others. This collection looks at classical and seminal research in the field with the broad framework of the moral standing of states; the moral standing of non-state actors; and the ethics of international relations. Volume One: The Society of States Volume Two: Global Civil Society: Non-State Actors in World Politics Volume Three: The Changing Constitution of Global Politics Volume Four: Ethics and Foreign Policy.

Contents: VOLUME ONE: THE MORAL STANDING OF STATES AND THE SOCIETY OF STATES Normative Theory, Ethics and International Relations Normative Theory - Daryl Glaser Case for Normative Political Theory - Anurag Sinha Normative Theory - Steve Buckler The Moral Standing of States The Rights of Political Communities - Michael Walzer Extract from 'Reconciling Rights and Sovereignty: The Constitutive Theory of Individuality' - Mervyn Frost The Nation-State: A Modest Defence - David Miller Sovereignty Quagmire - Alan James Extract from 'Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty' - Thomas Pogge Negative Sovereignty in Sub-Saharan Africa - Robert Jackson Writing the State - Cynthia Weber Ethical Standing of Borders Justice and Boundaries - Onora O'Neill The Ethics of Boundaries - Daniel Philpott Secession Theories of Secession - Allen Buchanan Extract from 'Secession and Self Determination: A Territorial Interpretation' - Lea Brilmayer Anarchy Extract from 'The Anarchical Society' - Hedley Bull Extract from 'Global Ethics: Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations' - Mervyn Frost Liberty Extract from 'Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs' - Michael Doyle By Way of an Introduction - Francis Fukuyama Order Order and Justice in 'The Anarchical Society' - Ian Harris The New Global Order: The Power of Principle in a Pluralistic World - Charles Kegley Hedley Bull and Order in International Relations - John Vincent Justice Theories of International Justice - Chris Brown The Law of Peoples - John Rawls Justice and International Relations - Charles Beitz Equality and Inequality Extract from 'A New International System?' - Robert Tucker The Problem of Global Justice - Thomas Nagel

VOLUME TWO: THE MORAL STANDING OF GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY: ETHICS AND NON STATE ACTORS IN WORLD POLITICS Global Civil Society The Promises of International Civil Society - Alejandro Colás Reading the Small Print in Global Civil Society: The Inexorable Hegemony of the Liberal Self - Stephen Hopgood Global Civil Society, Anarchy and Governance: Assessing an Emerging Paradigm - Scott Turner The Concept of Civil Society - Michael Walzer Human Rights Human Rights in Foreign Policy - John Vincent Cultural Relativism and Universal Human Rights - Jack Donnelly Human Rights, Rationality and Sentimentality - Richard Rorty Asian and African Rights Evaluating Human Rights in Africa: Some Problems of Implicit Comparisons - Rhoda Howard Human Rights and Asian Values - Amartya Sen Nations and Determination as an Ethical Issue in World Politics The Ethical Significance of Nationality - David Miller National Self Determination - Avishai Margalit and Joseph Raz The Romance of the Nation State - David Luban Ethical Uncertainties of Nationalism - Dan Smith Associations, Social Movements and International Social Networks Building Global Civil Society 'from Below' - David Chandler Explorations of Political Practice - R.B.J. Walker

VOLUME THREE: THE CHANGING CONSTITUTION OF GLOBAL POLITICS: ETHICAL ISSUES Ethical Diplomacy and Foreign Policy The Meeting of Ethics and Diplomacy - Kenneth Thompson Rhetoric Without Responsibility: The Attraction of Ethical Foreign Policy - David Chandler Ethics and International Law International Ethics and International Law - Terry Nardin International Law as an Approach to International Ethics: A Plea for Jurisprudential Diagnostics - Friedrich Kratochwil Global Civil Society and Global Citizenship Situating Global Citizenship - Nigel Dower International Ethics and European Integration: Federal State of Network Horizon? - Thomas Diez From an Ethics of Integration to an Ethics of Participation - Richard Bellamy and Alex Warleigh Cosmopolitan Democracy Democracy and the New International Order - David Held Citizenship and Sovereignty in the Post-Westphalian State - Andrew Linklater Transnational Democracy - John Dryzek Feminist Global Ethics Towards a Feminist International Ethics - Kimberly Hutchings Ethical Reasoning and the Global Context of Care - Fiona Robinson

VOLUME FOUR: ETHICS AND FOREIGN POLICY Ethics, Migrants and International Relations Ethics, National Sovereignty and the Control of Immigration - Myron Weiner Migration and Morality:A Liberal Egalitarian Point of View - Joseph Carens Liberal Democratic States and Ethically Defensible Asylum Practices - Matthew Gibney Sanctions A Peaceful, Silent, Deadly Remedy: The Ethics of Economic Sanctions - Joy Gordon Are Sanctions Just? The Problematic Case of Iraq - David Cortright and George Lopez Aid, Relief and Conditionalities The Moral Case fir Aid - Roger Riddell Aid and Sovereignty - Christopher Kilby Doing the Right Thing: Relief Agencies, Moral Dilemmas and Moral Responsibility in Political Emergencies and War - Hugo Slim Ethics and the Conduct of International Development Aid: Charity and Obligation - Des Gasper Humanitarian Intervention The Idea of State Sovereignty and the Right of Humanitarian Intervention - John Charvet Ethics and Intervention - Michael Smith Humanitarian Intervention and the Just War - Mona Fixdal and Dan Smith Just War The Just War Criteria - Alex Bellamy Can War be Morally Justified? The Just War Theory - Robert Holmes Just War against Terrorism On the Just War Tradition in the Twenty-First Century - Nicholas Rengger Just War or Ethical Peace? Moral Discourses of Strategic Violence after 9/11 - Anthony Burke The Slippery Slope to Preventive War - Neta Crawford What's wrong with Preventive War? The Moral and Legal Basis for the Preventive Use of Force - Whitley Kaufman International Environmental Ethics Biodiversity, Ethics and International Law - Farhana Yamin Bioregionalism and Cross-Cultural Dialogue on a Land Ethics - Richard Evanoff The Importance of Expressly Examining Global Warming Policy Issues Through an Ethical Prism - Donald Brown.

'The EU and Southeastern Europe: The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance'

in Jovan Babic, Petar Bojanic and Gazela Pudor (eds) Europe in the Emerging World Order: Searching for a New Paragdigm (Belgrade: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade), pp.152-179. ISBN 978-8682417309

'Understanding the Gap between the Promise and the Reality of “The Responsibility to Protect”'

in Phillip Cunliffe (ed.) Critical Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect: Interrogating Theory and Practice (London: Routledge, 2011), pp.19-34. ISBN 978-0415586238

Book synopsis: This edited volume critically examines the widely supported doctrine of the 'Responsibility to Protect', and investigates the claim that it embodies progressive values in international politics. Since the United Nations World Summit of 2005, a remarkable consensus has emerged in support of the doctrine of the 'responsibility to protect' (R2P) – the idea that states and the international community bear a joint duty to protect peoples around the world from mass atrocities. While there has been plenty of discussion over how this doctrine can best be implemented, there has been no systematic criticism of the principles underlying R2P. This volume is the first critically to interrogate both the theoretical principles and the policy consequences of this doctrine. The authors in this collection argue that the doctrine of R2P does not in fact embody progressive values, and they explore the possibility that the R2P may undermine political accountability within states and international peace between them. This volume not only advances a novel set of arguments, but will also spur debate by offering views that are seldom heard in discussions of R2P. The aim of the volume is to bring a range of criticisms to bear from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including international law, political science, IR theory and security studies. This book will be of much interest to students of the Responsibility to Protect, humanitarian intervention, human security, critical security studies and IR in general.

Contents: Introduction Philip Cunliffe Part 1: The Responsibility to Protect: cunliffe r2p History and Politics 2. The Skeleton in the Closet: The Responsibility to Protect in History Noam Chomsky 3. Understanding the Gap between the Promise and Reality of the Responsibility to Protect David Chandler 4. The Responsibility to Protect and the End of the Western Century Tara McCormack Part 2: The Responsibility to Protect: International Law and Order 5. A Dangerous Duty: Power, Paternalism and the Global 'Duty of Care' Philip Cunliffe 6. Responsibility to Peace: A Critique of R2P Mary Ellen O'Connell 7. The Responsibility to Protect and International Law Aidan Hehir Part 3: The Responsibility to Protect in Africa 8. The Irresponsibility of the Responsibility to Protect in Africa Adam Branch 9. Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish? Mahmood Mamdani.

'Critiquing Global Democracy'

in Joe Hoover, Meera Sabaratnam and Laust Schouenborg (eds) Interrogating Democracy in World Politics (London: Routledge, 2011), pp.130-149. ISBN 978-0415595315

Book synopsis: It is often assumed that democracy is both desirable and possible in global politics. Interrogating Democracy in World Politics provides an important counter-argument to this assumption by questioning the history, meaning and concepts of democracy in contemporary international and global politics. Combining viewpoints from the fields of international relations, political theory and history, the book includes: Critical examinations of the concept of democracy as a political order and ethical ideal Assessment of the role and function of democracy in how contemporary political events are understood and evaluated Analysis of the relationship of democracy to international stability, liberalism and the emergence of capitalist economies The book focuses on the move from the concept of 'international politics' to 'world politics', recognising the equal importance of understanding democratic interaction both within and between states. It reviews current scholarly thinking in the field before providing a complex theoretical re-engagement with the meaning of democracy in contemporary world politics. Interrogating Democracy in World Politics will be of interest to students and scholars of politics and international relations, democratization studies and globalization.

Hoover democracy Contents: 1. Introduction: Interrogating Democracy in World Politcs Joe Hoover, Meera Sabaratnam and Laust Schouenborg Part 1: Historical Interrogations 2. Democracy in America and Democracy in the World Today Nicholas Onuf and Peter Onuf 3. Democracy in International Society: Promotion or Exclusion? Ian Clark 4. Power to the People: Nationally-Embedded Development and Mass Armies in the Making of Democracy Sandra Halperin 5. Escaping the Liberal Straitjacket: Re-Examining Democracy's History Christopher Hobson 6. The Active Making of Two Foundationally Unequal Subjects: Liberal Democracy's Achilles Heel? Saskia Sassen Part 2: Conceptual Interrogations 7. Restructuring Global Governance: Cosmopolitanism, Democracy and the Global Order David Held 8. Democracy in a Multipolar World Chantal Mouffe 9. Critiquing Global Democracy David Chandler 10. Mobilising (Global) Democracy: A Political Reading of Mobility between Universal Rights and the Mob Claudia Aradau and Jef Huysmans 11. Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism and the Role of Leadership in Transnational Democracy Daniel Bray 12. Conclusion James Bohman.

‘The Liberal Peace – Statebuilding, Democracy and Local Ownership’

in Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh (ed.) Rethinking the Liberal Peace: External Models and Local Alternatives (London: Routledge, 2011), pp.77-88. ISBN 978-0415600552

Book synopsis: This book presents a critical analysis of the liberal peace project and offers possible alternatives and models. In the past decade, the model used for reconstructing societies after conflicts has been based on liberal assumptions about the pacifiying effects of 'open markets' and 'open societies'. Yet, despite the vast resources invested in helping establish the precepts of this liberal peace, outcomes have left much to be desired. The book argues that failures in the liberal peace project are not only due to efficiency problems related to its adaptation in adverse local environments, but mostly due to problems of legitimacy of turning an ideal into a doctrine for action.? The aim of the book is to scrutinize assumptions about the value of democratization and marketization and realities on the ground by combining theoretical discussions with empirical evidence from key post-conflict settings such as Iraq and Afghanistan. These?show the disparities that exist between the ideals and the reality of the liberal peace project, as seen by external peacebuilders and domestic actors. The book then proposes?various alternatives and modifications to better accommodate local perspectives, values and agency in attempts to forge a new consensus. This book will be of great interest to students of peacebuilding/peacekeeping, statebuilding, war and conflict studies, international security and IR. Tadjbakhsh liberal peace

Contents: Introduction: Liberal Peace in Dispute Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh Part 1: Theory and Critics of the Liberal Peace 1. Open Societies, Open Markets: Assumptions and Illusions Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh 2. Becoming Liberal, Unbecoming Liberalism: Liberal-Local Hybridity via the Everyday as a Response to the Paradoxes of Liberal Peacebuilding Oliver P. Richmond 3. Peace, Self-Governance and International Engagement: From Neo-Colonial to Postcolonial Peacebuilding Kristoffer Lidén Part 2: Liberal Democracy 4. The Liberal Peace: Statebuilding, Democracy and Local Ownership David Chandler 5. Democracy and Security: A Shotgun Marriage? Robin Luckham 6. What's Law got to do with it? The Role of Law in Post-Conflict Democratization and its (Flawed) Assumptions Michael Schoiswohl 7. No Such Thing as Cosmopolitanism: Field-dependent Consequences in International Administrative Governance and Criminal Justice Nicholas Dorn Part 3: Market Liberalism 8. Curing Strangeness in the Political Economy of Peacebuilding: Traces of Liberalism and Resistance Michael Pugh 9. Economic Dimensions of the Liberal Peace and its Implications for Conflict in Developing Countries Syed Mansoob Murshed Part 4: Case Studies 10. Reconstructing Post-2006 Lebanon: A Distorted Market Christine Sylva Hamieh and Roger Mac Ginty 11. Is Liberal Democracy Possible in Iraq? Amal Shlash and Patrick Tom 12. Liberal Peace and the Dialogue of the Deaf in Afghanistan Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh Conclusion: Typologies and Modifications Proposed by Critical Approaches Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh and Oliver P. Richmond.

2010

'Evading the Challenge: The Limits of Global Activism'

in Thomas Olesen (ed.) Power and Transnational Activism (London: Routledge, 2010), pp.34-50. ISBN 978-0415553698

Reviews:
One of the most appreciated virtues of civil society is its ability to frame old or neglected issues in innovative ways. Olesen's edited volume provides an important contribution to this debate on transnational activism. Contrasting civil society capacity to frame new discursive opportunity structures at the international level to the resilient ability of the state to exert restraining power at the national level, the book opens up new avenues to understand the power of civil society actors together with its limits - Raffaele Marchetti, Lecturer of International Relations, Department of Political Science, LUISS and University of Naples L'Orientale

Olesen Here is a valuable collection in which top-rate thinkers offer diverse assessments of the place of transnational counter-publics in contemporary politics. It is an important question, and the book offers novel and interesting answers - Jan Aart Scholte, University of Warwick

Book Synopsis: This book focuses on global activism and uses a power perspective to provide an in-depth and coherent analysis of both the possibilities and limitations of global activism. Bringing together scholars from IR, sociology, and political science, this book offers new and critical insights on global activism and power. It features case studies on the following social and political issues: China and Tibet, HIV/AIDS, climate change, child labour, the WTO, women and the UN, the global public sphere, regional integration, national power, world social forums, policing, media power and global civil society. It will be of interest to students and scholars of globalization, global sociology and international politics.

'Introduction’ (with Nik Hynek) and

‘Rethinking Global Discourses of Security’

in David Chandler and Nik Hynek (eds) Critical Approaches to Human Security: Rethinking Discourses of Emancipation and Power in International Relations (London: Routledge, 2010), pp. 1-10 and pp.114-128. ISBN 978-0415567343

Book Synopsis: This new book presents critical approaches towards Human Security, which has become one of the key areas for policy and academic debate within Security Studies and IR. The Human Security paradigm has had considerable significance for academics, policy-makers and practitioners. Under the rubric of Human Security, security policy practices seem to have transformed their goals chandler and hynek and approaches, re-prioritising economic and social welfare issues?that were marginal to the state-based geo-political rivalries of the Cold War era. Human Security has reflected and reinforced the reconceptualisation of international security, both broadening and deepening it, and, in so doing, it has helped extend and shape the space within which security concerns inform international policy practices. However, in its wider use, Human Security has become an amorphous and unclear political concept, seen by some as progressive and radical and by others as tainted by association with the imposition of neo-liberal practices and values on non-Western spaces?or as legitimizing attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is concerned with critical perspectives towards Human Security, highlighting some of the tensions which can emerge between critical perspectives which discursively radicalise Human Security within frameworks of emancipatory possibility and those which attempt to deconstruct Human Security within the framework of an externally imposed attempt to regulate and order the globe on behalf of hegemonic power. The chapters gathered in this edited collection represent a range of critical approaches which bring together alternative understandings of human security. This book will be of great interest to students of human security studies and critical security studies, war and conflict studies and international relations.

2009

'Radicalism and the Demand for Global Politics'

in Jon Pugh (ed.) What is Radical Politics Today (London: Routledge, 2009), pp.77-84. ISBN 978-0-230-23626-4

Reviews: Jonathan Pugh gathers some of the most innovative and insightful voices from Britain and beyond to stage a series of debates on the central issues facing radical politics today. radical politics This collection is a model for the kinds of discussion we need to move forward. - Michael Hardt, Duke University; With impeccable timing, this volume provides a stimulating range of perspectives on what radical politics can offer during this period of crisis and change. It deserves to be widely read and debated. - Ruth Lister, Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University, UK; At a time when all ideologies are either exhausted or have become irrelevant, the need for a truly radical politics can hardly be exaggerated. Radical politics is about rethinking the common sense, the taken for granted assumptions, of the age. This timely and well-planned collection of essays by distinguished and concerned scholars throws much new light on where we should be looking for new ideas. It represents a major contribution to the ongoing debate on the problems of our times. - Lord Bhikhu Parek

'Global Civil Society'

in G. Honor Fagan and Ronaldo Munck (eds) Globalization and Security An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, Social and Cultural Aspects (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2009), pp. 177-194. ISBN 978-0-275-99692-5

Book synopsis: Globalization - the interconnections between national economies, cultures, and governments - has rapidly transformed human perspectives on the world in which we live. It has been a rapidly developing process and since 9/11, nations have increasingly focused on working together to establish collective global security. This work addresses the current need for an authoritative but accessible overview of the impact of globalization on security and its multifaceted aspects. Broad in scope, this two-volume set addresses the economic and political aspects of globalization as well as its social and cultural impacts. More important, it is the first work to focus explicitly on security, including human security broadly conceived, and the role that globalization plays in the world's new and ever-evolving security environment.

'EU Statebuilding: Securing the Liberal Peace through EU Enlargement'

in Roger Mac Ginty and Oliver Richmond (eds) The Liberal Peace and Post-war Reconstruction (London: Routledge, 2009), pp.103-117. ISBN 978-0-415-48926-3

Book synopsis: The post-Cold War has witnessed enormous levels of western peacekeeping, peacemaking and reconstruction intervention in societies emerging from war. These western-led interventions are often called ‘liberal peacebuilding’ or ‘liberal interventionism’, or statebuilding, and have attracted considerable controversy. In this study, leading proponents and critics of the liberal peace and contemporary post-war reconstruction assess the role of the United States, European Union and other actors in the promotion of the liberal peace, and of peace more generally. Key issues, including transitional justice and the acceptance/rejection of the liberal peace in African states are also considered. The failings of the liberal peace (most notably in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also in other locations) have prompted a growing body of critical literature on the motivations, mechanics and consequences of the liberal peace. This volume brings together key protagonists from both sides of the debate to produce a cutting edge, state of the art discussion of one the main trends in contemporary international relations. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Society.

‘The Limits of Post-Territorial Political Community: From the Cosmopolitan Politics of Global Civil Society to the Biopolitics of the Mulititude’

in Gideon Baker and Jens Bartelson (eds) The Future of Political Community (London: Routledge/ ECPR Studies in European Political Science, 2009), pp.112-126. ISBN 978-0-415-46820-6

Books synopsis: This book explores the alternative futures of political community and moves beyond the critique of what is wrong with existing, state-based forms of political community. It does so not with the defence of a particular normative model of political community in mind, but rather in the quest for new ways of thinking about political community itself. Exploring how the political must be rethought in the twenty-first century and beyond, this book is divided into three parts: Part I focuses on the core problem that, despite the obvious need to rethink political community ‘beyond’ the nation state, our conceptual language is still thoroughly shaped by modernity, its prioritisation of the state and sovereignty, and its assumption of unifying progress in history. Part II focuses on postmodern political community, these chapters take up the calls made above for new thinking about political community that goes ‘beyond’ modern conceptions. Part III turns to the question of the emergence and decline of new forms of political community. The purpose of this section is to consider how the transformation of political community occurs in practice, and what the primary driver of this change is globally, locally and historically. This book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of International Relations, Political and Social Theory.

‘Balkan Devlet İnşasi: Yönetim Değil, Yönetişim’ (trans Ayse Merve Kamaci) / ‘Balkan Statebuilding: Governance but not Government’

in Caner Sancakter (ed.) Uluslararasi Balkan Kongresi: Balkan Milletleri Arasi Etkileşim 24-25 Nisan 2008/ International Balkan Congress; Interaction Among the Balkan Nations 24-25 April 2008 Tekirdağ (Istanbul: Tasam Yayinlari), pp.129-154 / pp.155-179. ISBN 975-6285-43-5

'Great Power Responsibility and "Failed States": Strengthening Sovereignty?'

in Julia Raue and Patrick Sutter (eds) Facets and Practices of State Building (Amsterdam: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff, 2009), pp.15-30. ISBN 978-90-04-17430-0

Raue Sutter David Chandler

Book Synopsis: Drawing on a mix of international academic and field expert work, this book presents and analyses contemporary state-building efforts. It offers studies on the theoretical and practical foundations and causes of state-building, identifies the role and responsibilities of key actors and points to vital issues which merit specific attention in state-building undertakings. The book offers lessons for the future of state-building relevant to both practitioners and the academic community.

'Ideological (Mis)Use of Human Rights', View draft

in Michael Goodhart (ed.) Human Rights: Politics and Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp.109-125. ISBN 978-0-19-954084-6

Book Synopsis: Human Rights: Politics and Practice is the first comprehensive textbook for politics students. It offers an unparalleled breadth and depth of coverage, with 20 chapters written by international experts. Seven chapters introduce the main theoretical issues and challenges in the study of human rights as a political phenomenon, addressing normative foundations, international law, measurement, goodhart human rights david chandler international relations, comparative politics, sociological and anthropological approaches, and the ideological (mis)use of human rights. Thirteen thematic chapters then offer detailed analysis and case studies of key issues in the politics and practice of human rights, such as economic globalization, genocide, the environment, and humanitarian intervention. These chapters allow students to deepen their theoretical understanding while learning about important contemporary developments. The book is accompanied by an extensive Online Resource Centre, enhancing student learning and providing valuable support for lecturers. For Students: Monthly updates Links to key documents Web links Flashcard glossary For Lecturers: Test Bank PowerPoint slides.

'Introduction: Beyond Managing Contradictions' View draft

in David Chandler (ed.) Statebuilding and Intervention: Policies, Practices and Paradigms (London: Routledge, 2009), pp.1-14. ISBN 978-0-415-45204-5

Book Synopsis: This edited book sets out and engages with some of the key policies, practices and paradigms of external intervention in the case of state support and reconstruction. Many assumptions about statebuilding have been reconsidered in the wake of Iraq, and ongoing problems in other states such as Afghanistan, Bosnia and Kosovo. Rather than being a regional survey or a policy-orientated ‘lessons learned’ book, this collection explores the broader framing of policy goals, statebuilding practices and the consensus on the need for Western states and international institutions to be engaged in this policy area. The volume is divided into three parts: the first engages with some of the key policy frameworks and conceptual issues raised by recent statebuilding interventions; the second considers core statebuilding practices; and the third reconsiders statebuilding paradigms more broadly. The essays open up debate and critical discussion in the field at a time when many advocates of extending statebuilding intervention suggest that the complex nature of the problems of non-Western states and societies mean that it will inevitably be contradictory and limited in its results.

2008

'Post-Conflict Statebuilding: Governance without Government' View draft

in Michael Pugh, Neil Cooper and Mandy Turner (eds) Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008), pp.337-355. ISBN 978-0-230-57335-2

Book Synopsis: This book examines the much-neglected question of what constitutes a political economy of peace after civil conflicts and who controls it.The advent of the UN's Peacebuilding Commission signals a growing international interest in reconstruction during and after conflict. It is original in that it tackles the question of wha Pugh et al David Chandler t constitutes a political economy of peace. Currently, how it might be constructed is either assumed to be self-evident and unproblematic or simply ignored. It examines key cross-cutting issues, themes and cases that will provide a more holistic and comprehensive approach to peacebuilding. It provides critical perspectives on peacebuilding that reach beyond the technicist approach of international financial institutions and the liberal peace formulae of cadres of international capital.The book provides critical perspectives that reach beyond the technical approaches of international financial institutions and proponents of the liberal peace formula. It investigates political economies characterized by the legacies of disruption to production and exchange, by population displacement, poverty, and by 'criminality'.

'The EU’s Promotion of Democracy in the Balkans'

in Zaki Laïdi (ed.) EU Foreign Policy in a Globalized World: Normative Power and Social Preferences (London: Routledge, 2008), pp.68-82. ISBN 978-0-415-43363-1

Book Synopsis: Written by leading experts in the field, this volume identifies European collective preferences and analyzes to what extent these preferences inform and shape EU foreign policy and are shared by other actors in the international system. While studies of the EU's foreign policy are not new, this book takes a very different tack from previous research. Specifically it leaves aside the Laidi David Chandler institutional and bureaucratic dimensions of the European Union's behaviour as an international actor in order to concentrate on the meanings and outcomes of its foreign policy taken in the broadest sense. Two outcomes are possible: Either Europe succeeds in imposing a norms-based international system and thus, in this case, its soft power capacity will not only have been demonstrated but will be enhanced Or, on the contrary, it does not succeed and the global system will become one where realpolitik reigns; especially once China, India and Russia attain a preponderant influence on the international scene. "EU Foreign Policy in a Globalized World" will be of interest to students and scholars of European Union politics, foreign policy and politics and international relations in general.

2007

'The Politics of Post-Territorial "Community"'

in Space and Time in World Politics and International Relations: Material from the Fourth Congress of the Russian International Studies Association, Moscow MGIMO University, Vol.2 'Identity and Sovereignty: New Approaches' (Moscow: RISA, 2007), pp.9-22. ISBN 978-5-9228-0296-3

'Deconstructing Sovereignty, Constructing Global Civil Society'

in C. J. Bickerton, P. Cunliffe and A. Gourevitch (eds) Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations (London: UCL Press, 2007), pp.150-167. ISBN 978-0-415-41807-2

Book Synopsis: State sovereignty is under siege. The classical doctrine of sovereignty is widely seen as totalitarian, producing external aggression and internal repression. Political leaders and opinion-makers throughout the world claim that the sovereign state is a barrier to efficient global governance and the protection of human rights. Scholars from a variety of different approaches - realist, liberal, constructivist and post-structuralist - dispute the idea of a final authority in politics. Politics without Sovereignty challenges this 'unholy alliance' against sovereignty.

Two central claims are advanced in this book. First, that the sovereign state is being undermined not by the pressures of globalization but by a diminished sense of political possibility. Second, the book demonstrates that those who deny the relevance of sovereignty have failed to offer superior alternatives to the sovereign state. Sovereignty remains the best institution to establish clear lines of political authority and accountability. It preserves the idea that people shape collectively their own destiny. The authors claim that this positive idea of sovereignty as self-determination remains integral to politics both at the domestic and international levels. This key text will be of great interest to students and scholars of Political Science, International Relations, Security Studies, International Law, Development and European Studies.

'The State-Building Dilemma: Good Governance or Democratic Government?'

in A. Hehir and N. Robinson (eds) Building States in International Politics (London: Routledge, 2007), pp.70-88. ISBN 978-0-415-39435-2

Book synopsis: This book presents a penetrating new examination of state building in international politics, drawing on case studies of key examples, including Afghanistan, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Rwanda. However, this new book does not simply provide case histories. It looks at the key themes of international state-building efforts, such as the relationship between governance and democracy and the problems of ethnic relations. It also brings together a diverse Hehir Robinson David Chandler range of experts to provide a well-rounded discussion of state building in the modern era. The reader is presented with a clear explanation of why the issue of state failure has emerged as a central element in post-Cold War international relations. This volume shows why the primacy of sovereign inviolability has been challenged by both the international ascendancy of human rights and by incidents of state collapse. Following incidents where states have been the subject of humanitarian interventions, such as in Kosovo and Afghanistan, or when states have recently emerged from the disintegration of old states, as in Bosnia and East Timor, this is an excellent assessment of why the international community, either collectively or individually, have been compelled to take on the role of transitional administrators during state building.

'Introduction: Ethics and Foreign Policy: New Perspectives on an Old Problem' (with Volker Heins)

and

'The Other-Regarding Ethics of "Empire in Denial"

in David Chandler and Volker Heins (eds) Rethinking Ethical Foreign Policy: Pitfalls, Possibilities and Paradoxes (London: Routledge, 2007).

Book synopsis: This new volume moves beyond the limits of current debate to show how today's foreign policy is increasingly about values rather than interests and why ethics are now playing a central role. Rather than counterposing interests and ethics, trying to find 'hidden agendas' or emphasizing the double-standards at play in ethical foreign policy, this book brings together leading international theorists, and a variety of stimulating approaches, to develop a critical understanding of the rise of ethical foreign policy, and to analyze the limits of ethical policy-making on its own terms. They deal with the limits of 'ethical foreign policy' both in the light of the internal dynamic of these policies themselves, and with regard to the often unintended consequences of policies designed to better the world. This book also shows how the transformation of both the domestic and the international spheres of politics means that ethics has become a rallying point for non-state actors and experts who gather around values and norms in order to force institutions to justify their behavior. This process results from different structural changes and the transformation of the international system, the individualization of Western societies and the growing importance of expertise in the justification of decisions in risk adverse societies. It leads to a transformation of norms and to a redefinition of a global ethical framework that needs to be clarified. This book will be of great interest to all students and researchers of foreign policy formation, politics and international relations.

2006

'The EU and Bosnia after Dayton: the Reform of International Policy towards Bosnia'

in Giovanna Bono (ed.) The impact of 11 September 2001 and the 'War on Terror' on European Foreign and Security Policy (Brussels: Politeia/VUB Press, 2006), pp.177-202. ISBN 90-5487-398-1

Book Synopsis: The contributors to this book argue that the events of 9/11 and the ‘war on terror’ are having a significant transformative impact on European Foreign and Security Policy.

This is demonstrated through an analysis of changes in the attitudes of EU officials and politicians towards the laws and norms governing the use of force and through an analysis of changes in strategies towards the Balkans, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and the United States. The impact of the ‘war on terror’ on EU military affairs is highlighted.

It is argued that since 9/11 there has been a widening, deepening, and ‘securitisation’ of European Foreign and Security Policy. The widening is reflected in a broader EU commitment to crisis management and postwar reconstruction at the global level, which at times takes the form of ‘state building’. The deepening is represented by the emergence of groups of EU countries, so called ‘vanguards’, leading in foreign and security policy issues and in EU military affairs. For the first time in its history, the EU Council has also endorsed a notion of threats that is contributing to a process of ‘securitisation’ of aspects of EU internal and external policies.

Giovanna Bono is a Senior Associate Fellow in European Foreign and Security Policy at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

Book synopsis CSDChandlerCivilSocietyDemocratization

This title brings together competing theories of civil society with critical studies of the role of civil society in diverse situations and the way in which it has been promoted as the key to democratization. The combination of contemporary theory and practical applications provides valuable reading for students of civil society and contemporary social and political change, and its policy implications for Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Forthcoming

Published

'The Other-Regarding Ethics of "Empire in Denial"