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Constructing the capable state: Contested discourses and practices in EU capacity building
Cooperation and Conflict ( IF 2.310 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-15 , DOI: 10.1177/0010836719860885
Timothy Edmunds , Ana E Juncos

Capacity building has risen to prominence in the vocabulary of the international community as a way to promote security and development in fragile and post-conflict environments. Capacity building seeks to promote a bottom-up approach drawing on and strengthening existing local capacities. This article argues that capacity building can be understood as part of a broader governmentality that seeks to determine from the outside what constitutes a ‘capable’ subject. However, the effects of these governance practices are not straightforward as they are constantly shaped by the way local actors on the ground engage with these. Drawing on both policy documents and interviews conducted in Bosnia, Kosovo and Somalia, the article examines European Union capacity building initiatives in these post-conflict environments. By examining the rationality and problematisations behind this discourse, the article unveils how such assumptions (in particular, regarding the lack of institutions, power and knowledge) result in interactions and contestation between the local and the international in practice, which lead to new outcomes that neither straightforwardly reflect the existing status quo nor represent a linear imposition of power by external capacity builders.

中文翻译:

建设有能力的国家:欧盟能力建设方面有争议的论述和实践

作为在脆弱和冲突后环境中促进安全与发展的一种方式,能力建设已在国际社会的词汇中日益受到重视。能力建设旨在促进一种自下而上的方法,以利用和加强现有的当地能力。本文认为,能力建设可以理解为更广泛的政府机构的一部分,该机构试图从外部确定什么是“有能力的”主题。但是,这些治理实践的效果并非一帆风顺,因为它们经常受到当地当地参与者与之互动的方式的影响。本文利用在波斯尼亚,科索沃和索马里进行的政策文件和访谈,探讨了在这些冲突后环境中欧洲联盟的能力建设举措。
更新日期:2019-07-15
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