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Preserving and progressing: Tensions in the gendered politics of military conscription European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Saskia Stachowitsch, Sanna Strand
After all-male universal conscription had been deactivated in many European countries in the post-Cold War era, the past decade has seen a surprising reversal of this trend, with several countries reactivating, voting to retain, or even extending military conscription to women. Due to the strong historical link between conscription and the formation of hierarchical gender orders, this paper conducts
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Taking stock of far-right terrorism through manifestos: Glorification of identity European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Cenker Korhan Demir, Ömer Çona
This research delves into the identity construction and violence justification within the context of far-right lone-actor terrorism, particularly motivated by white supremacist ideologies. Employing a qualitative analysis of manifestos compiled by five lone-actor terrorists, this study adopts a model to unveil the nuanced processes behind the justification of violence and glorification of collective
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Feminist foreign policy in Israel and Germany? The Women, Peace, and Security agenda, development policy, and female representation European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Amnon Aran, Klaus Brummer
This paper explores the relationship between feminist foreign policy (FFP) and a country’s national role conception (NRC). Specifically, it asks whether countries with ‘masculine’ NRCs are opposed to the pursuit of FFP while countries with a more ‘feminine’ national role conception are advocates of FFP. To this end, the paper conducts a comparative analysis of ‘masculine’ Israel and ‘feminine’ Germany
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‘We opened the door [too] much’: The challenging desecuritisation of Colombian refugees in Ecuador European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Gabriela Patricia García García
This article explores the analytical trajectory of desecuritisation strategies in the Global South through the case of Colombian refugees in Ecuador (2005–12). It maps desecuritisation strategies and their enabling and constraining factors against the backdrop of an entrenched infiltration discourse and an emerging rights-based discourse. The analysis of speeches, interviews, and policies demonstrates
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Politics of creep: Latent development, technology monitoring, and the evolution of the Schengen Information System European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Matthias Leese, Vanessa Ugolini
The Schengen Information System for law enforcement, border control, and judicial cooperation in the European Union has over the years seen a considerable expansion of the amount and types of data stored and its functionalities, as well as its user base. In light of this transformation from a simple information-sharing tool to a full-blown investigative database, there has, however, been surprisingly
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From negative to positive internationalised protection: Attenuated solidarity and the practice of refugee protection European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Jonathan Gilmore
This article explores the growth of international civilian-protection concepts since the 1990s and the question of what protection means in a qualitative sense. It makes a significant intervention in advancing a typology of positive and negative protection, allowing more systematic analysis of whether protective practices fulfil the normative goals of internationalised protection and creating openings
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Post-nuclear worldmaking and counter-hegemony: Against catastrophic failures of imagination European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Tom Vaughan
Studies of nuclear politics and IR more widely have failed to seriously engage with what future nuclear-disarmed worlds would or should look like. I respond to this failure of imagination by advocating for a project of ‘post-nuclear worldmaking’. Counter-hegemonic political efforts around the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) are a useful first step to ‘connecting’ our nuclear-armed
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Junior allies in wars of choice: Party politics and role conceptions in Danish and Romanian decisions on the Iraq War European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Cornelia Baciu, Anders Wivel
When and how do party politics matter in junior allies’ decisions to engage in multinational military operations? Developing a new role theory model of party politics and multinational military operations, we put forward a two-level argument. First, we argue that the rationale for military action is defined in a contest between political parties with expectations of what constitutes the proper purpose
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The EU’s evolving leadership role in an age of geopolitics: Beyond normative and market power in the Indo-Pacific European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Anna Michalski, Charles F. Parker
In the last two decades, the European Union (EU) has forged an international role as a ‘force for good’ and a champion for democracy, human rights, multilateralism, free trade, climate change action, and sustainable development. However, as the international context has grown more competitive and turbulent, it has become more challenging for the EU to uphold this global role. Subsequently, the EU has
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Replacing the standard bearer: Theorising leadership transition in insurgencies European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Mark Youngman, Cerwyn Moore
The transition from one leader to the next represents a critical moment in the life cycle of insurgencies: it is a period of heightened uncertainty and vulnerability when roles and relationships are in flux. However, remarkably little scholarly attention has been paid to understanding this process. Building our case around the insurgency in Russia’s North Caucasus, we address this gap by developing
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A true crime story: The role of space, time, and identity in narrating criminal authority European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Norma Rossi
This article presents a theoretical and methodological argument for employing a narrative-based approach to explore criminal organisations’ (COs) claims to political authority, accompanied by an empirical example. International Relations scholarship is increasingly interested in the role narratives play in political meaning-making processes, with violent non-state actors (VNSAs) beginning to occupy
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Political audience and non-linear securitisation: Revisiting Israel–Iran relations and the making of the 1979 Islamic Revolution European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Eldad Ben Aharon
The 1979 Islamic Revolution was a tectonic change that influenced the geopolitics of the Middle East to this day. This article highlights the necessity of re-examining the events of 1979 from a securitisation perspective. Through an investigation of Ayatollah Khomeini's pivotal role, I challenge the methodological nationalism often found in the study of Israel–Iran relations. Despite his unconventional
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Agents, multilateral institutions, and fundamental institutional change in international society: The case of Russia’s peacekeeping policy European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Takamitsu Hadano
Drawing on recent debates in English School (ES) theory, this article develops an analytical framework for examining how states use multilateral institutions, or what ES theorists call ‘secondary institutions’, to reshape ‘primary institutions’, i.e. fundamental practices in international society. The framework highlights the role of states’ agency in international institutional change by shedding
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Cue Brexit: Performing Global Britain at the UN Security Council European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Lauren Rogers
The role of performance in ontological security seeking is underdeveloped, despite the fact that many elements of such behaviour – narratives, rituals, routinised meetings – carry a distinctive performative quality. Drawing on Butlerian performance theory, this article makes the case that performances are essential to re-establishing coherence and a sense of self following ontologically critical situations
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Nation branding and feminist diplomacy after crisis: France’s response to SEA allegations in Central African Republic European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Georgina Holmes, Sabrina White
This article makes the case that gender and racial analyses of the constitutive interplay between nation branding and diplomacy advance understandings of how liberal states use feminist agendas in response to political crises. Adopting a feminist post-colonial approach and drawing on a discourse analysis of French diplomatic speeches made in the UN Security Council between July 2011 and January 2020
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‘The most humane of all weapons’: Discrimination, airpower, and precision doctrine European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Stacie E. Goddard, Colleen Larkin
How did the norm of discrimination become the dominant yardstick to measure the ethics of US airpower? Conventional accounts suggest that as elites and publics embraced norms of discrimination, this pushed US air forces to adopt a precision doctrine, one that demands accurately striking military, and not civilian, targets. Relying on a pragmatic reading of norm contestation and settling, we suggest
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The paradox of critical security and the African solutions to African problems European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Edward Silvestre Kaweesi
In this article, I attempt to theorise the nature of the African multilateral security system. In doing so, I interrogate the question: how does the emancipatory logic of critical security relate to the post-colonial ideal of self-determination within the context of the African multilateral security system? The question is worthy of an attempt, for it brings the post-colonial concerns of African security
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The pacifist and the hypophysical: A cosmological reading of Gandhi European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Anand Sreekumar
Amidst the resurgence of scholarship on pacifism, this essay seeks to critically interrogate certain influential sections within pacifism which characterise Gandhi as a pacifist, and his philosophy as pacifism. After pointing out the shortcomings of existing attempts to problematise the pacifist connotations of Gandhi, I adopt a cosmological approach to reading Gandhi. I argue that such an approach
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Icons and ontological (in)security European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Brent J. Steele, Jelena Subotic
What role do national icons play in a political community’s drive for ontological security? And what implications does this have for global politics? This article situates national icons in service of state ontological security. Icons both unify and divide political communities; therefore they serve, but also disrupt, ontological security-seeking of collectives. Building on research on ontological
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Trust, distrust, and mass atrocity prevention: The Central African Republic European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Adrian Gallagher
The article calls on academics and policymakers who focus on mass atrocity prevention to engage with Trust Studies. This is needed because trust and distrust are commonly identified as a significant factor in destruction processes, yet there remains no substantive engagement with these concepts. The article combines Trust Studies, interdisciplinary research on the Central African Republic (Anthropology
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The autopoetics of the self: A ‘demonic’ approach to ontological security studies European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Lucy Gehring
Ontological security studies (OSS) has been established as a significant area of study in critical security studies (CSS) to describe the ways in which social groups sustain and secure a stable sense of self. Although the self is the central figure of OSS, the subfield is yet to engage in a sustained interrogation of subjectivity in a way that questions its colonial foundations. In this article, I
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Migration governance in civil war: The case of the Kurdish conflict European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Fiona B. Adamson
This article examines the management and instrumentalisation of migration and mobility as an area of contested governance in civil wars. Building on work in migration studies and rebel governance, it shows how migration and mobility regimes form part of the structure of violent armed conflicts, as both states and non-state actors seek to control processes and consequences of mobility and migration
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Knowledge and the governing of the interventionary object: Mali in the German parliament European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Werner Distler, Miriam Tekath
While studies on the role of knowledge and expertise have seen a resurgence of interest in International Relations and in literature on peacebuilding and security governance, little is known how knowledge enters the governance routines after the initial establishment of peacebuilding operations. Taking the mandate decision-making process of MINUSMA and EUTM operations in Mali in the German parliament
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Introducing the ‘conceptual archive’: A genealogy of counterterrorism in 1970s Britain European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Michael Livesey
This article contributes to an ‘historical turn’ in security scholarship. It addresses imbalance in security studies’ attention to historical empirics, and argues against notions of temporal disjunct prevalent within the discipline. I employ a genealogical framework to clarify the interpellation of past and present; and I introduce the ‘conceptual archive’ as a lens for pursuing that interpellation
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Statebuilding beyond the West: Exploring Islamic State’s strategic narrative of governance and statebuilding European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Raquel da Silva, Matthew Bamber-Zryd, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert
Strategic narratives are employed by political actors as tools to pursue their goals, constructing a shared meaning of the past, present, and future in order to shape behaviour. Building on discourse analysis of the magazine Dabiq and from in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted between 2018 and 2019 with IS civilian employees and civilians living in IS-controlled territory, we analyse how IS
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Military ad hoc coalitions and functional differentiation in inter-organisational relations European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Malte Brosig
The emergence of military ad hoc coalitions (AHCs) in Africa as a tool for conflict management outside established institutional frameworks brings about a number of questions: are they undermining existing security structures such as the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) or are they contributing to further regime complexity? In order to answer these questions, the article applies the logic
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Considering stratospheric aerosol injections beyond an environmental frame: The intelligible ‘emergency’ techno-fix and preemptive security European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Danielle N. Young
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI), is often referred to as a ‘Plan B’ if mitigation strategies to reduce emissions fail and the need to rapidly reduce global temperatures becomes urgent. In theory, SAI would help buy more time to bring carbon and other emissions down while also cooling or keeping the planet below the threshold for dangerous warming, though it is not a solution to the problem of
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Arms for influence? The limits of Great Power leverage European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Jennifer Spindel
Scholars and policymakers agree that major powers have leverage over their more junior partners. Giving security assistance or providing arms is supposed to increase this leverage. However, major powers often hit roadblocks when trying to influence the behaviour of their junior partners. This article demonstrates that junior partners are often successful in constraining the behaviour of the major power
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Contesting the heavens: US antipreneurship and the regulation of space weapons European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Adam Bower, Jeffrey S. Lantis
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty reserved outer space for ‘peaceful purposes’, yet recent decades have witnessed growing competition and calls for new multilateral rules including a proposed ban on the deployment of weapons in space. These diplomatic initiatives have stalled in the face of concerted opposition from the United States. To explain this outcome, we characterise US diplomacy as a form of ‘antipreneurship’
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Engines of power: Electricity, AI, and general-purpose, military transformations European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Jeffrey Ding, Allan Dafoe
Major theories of military innovation focus on relatively narrow technological developments, such as nuclear weapons or aircraft carriers. Arguably the most profound military implications of technological change, however, come from more fundamental advances arising from ‘general-purpose technologies’ (GPTs), such as the steam engine, electricity, and the computer. Building from scholarship on GPTs
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Securitising infectious disease outbreaks: The WHO and the visualisation of molecular life European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Christopher Long
Following its exceptional response to the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) gained new powers to securitise infectious disease outbreaks via the revised 2005 International Health Regulations (IHRs) and the ability to declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). This article investigates the declaration of a PHEIC in relation
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Gendered radicalisation and ‘everyday practices’: An analysis of extreme right and Islamic State women-only forums European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Yannick Veilleux-Lepage, Alexandra Phelan, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu
A growing amount of literature is being devoted to interrogating gendered dynamics in both violent extremism and terrorism, contributing to the integration of international and feminist security. This includes how such dynamics can shape differences in the motivations and participation of women and men. By critically analysing ideological gender constructs in two women-only extremist forums – the Women's
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Assaulting ‘diversity as such’: The ontology of dehumanisation in mass violence European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Torsten Michel
Dehumanisation is one of the most invoked factors in analyses of mass atrocities with many scholars focusing on its crucial role in enabling perpetrators to inflict violence on their victims. However, while its application is widespread, its relevance is often assumed a priori, with claims regarding its empirical relevance often asserted rather than argued for. Not only does its meaning, nature, and
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Victim versus villain: Repatriation policies for foreign fighters and the construction of gendered and racialised ‘threat narratives’ European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Helen Stenger
State responses to repatriation of Islamic State (ISIS) foreign fighters and their children detained across Syria and Iraq are highly diverse. Repatriation policies implemented between 2018 and 2020 range from denying repatriation of nationals and revocation of citizenship to repatriation and subsequent gender-responsive rehabilitation programmes. What explains the variation in state responses? This
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The concept of the foreign terrorist fighter: An immanent critique European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Christopher Baker-Beall
The conflicts in Iraq and Syria have led to concerns in the West over ‘foreign fighters’. Although states are anxious about the role these individuals play in the conflicts they join, their primary concern relates to the perceived ‘terrorist’ threat they pose on their return. This fear has led to an evolution in the international policymaking arena, with foreign fighters now often referred to as ‘foreign
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Ethical exit: When should peacekeepers depart? European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Eamon Aloyo, Geoffrey Swenson
When should peacekeepers partially or fully withdraw from a country or region in which they are operating? This important question has received little scholarly attention. However, it has profound implications. If peacekeepers depart prematurely, as happened in Rwanda in 1994, the consequences can be disastrous with the potential to lead to widespread preventable deaths and human suffering. If they
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Staying safe by being good? The EU's normative decline as a security actor in the Middle East European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Erik Skare
The European Union's cooperation with Middle Eastern regimes to counter terrorism and prevent violent extremism has received increased scholarly attention following several terrorist attacks in Europe the last decade. Despite the EU's emphasis on good governance, democracy, and human rights to prevent violent extremism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), I argue that the Union is in fact declining
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Drawing a line: Digital transnational repression against political exiles and host state sovereignty European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Marcus Michaelsen, Johannes Thumfart
Authoritarian regimes increasingly resort to surveillance and malware attacks to extend their coercive reach into the territory of other states and silence dissidents abroad. Recent scholarship has examined the methods of digital transnational repression and their detrimental effects on the fundamental rights and security of targeted individuals. However, the broader normative and security dimensions
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Women, Peace and Security National Action Plans in anti-gender governments: The cases of Brazil and Poland European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Jennifer Thomson, Sophie Whiting
In recent years, Brazil and Poland have elected governments that are sceptical of both the liberal international order and gender. In both cases, contemporary administrations have bolstered the pre-existing anti-gender offensive of religious and secular conservative forces and converted this into legislation and public policy. Yet, at the same time, both have also created National Action Plans around
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The R2P and atrocity prevention: Contesting human rights as a threat to international peace and security European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Samuel Jarvis
The significant link between human rights violations and the eventual outbreak of atrocity crimes has been widely promoted across the UN system. However, the question of how the connection between the R2P norm and human rights plays out in the actual practices and debates of the UN Security Council has been relatively under explored. In response, the article builds on constructivist research into norm
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Visibilising the neglected: The emancipatory potential of resilience European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Marco Krüger
The shift of responsibility from the state and public authorities to the individual and the local level is one of the most common critiques of resilience policies. Individuals are portrayed as self-responsible entrepreneurs of their own protection. This article proposes a more nuanced reading of this process by arguing that resilience also entails an emancipatory potential. Drawing on an analysis of
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Contesting security: Multiple modalities, NGOs, and the security-migration nexus in Scotland European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Ian Paterson
The security-migration nexus is ubiquitous throughout Europe and beyond. An avalanche of scholarship has explored the construction of migration as a security threat in general and, in the UK, the creation of the ‘hostile environment’ in particular – the problematic nature of each being well documented. Yet, far less attention has been paid to activities that contest this process. Deploying Balzacq's
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Hybrid warfare: The continuation of ambiguity by other means European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Andrew Mumford, Pascal Carlucci
This article presents the study of ambiguity as the essence of hybrid warfare to reconcile it with the international political context. It addresses the gaps in the literature in an effort to elucidate the essence of hybrid warfare not as a separate concept, but rather as the symptom of a changing political environment. The analysis of the literature is reinforced by two case studies: the war in eastern
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Enemies or allies? How NGOs can push the military towards transparency around the use of force European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Francesca Colli, Yf Reykers
This article examines the conditions under which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) gain access to defence administrations when campaigning for transparency around the use of military force. We theorise that gaining access in this traditionally secluded domain is a matter of supply and demand. NGOs can gain access through technical and political information, yet not without demand for these resources
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Identification and physical disconnect in Russian foreign policy: Georgia as a Western proxy once again? European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Julie Wilhelmsen
Evolving official Russian identifications of Georgia amount to a dangerous securitisation of this small neighbour – achieved through a focus not on Georgia itself but on Western engagement in the region. With the long absence of face-to-face diplomatic encounters and contact, the Russian idea of Georgia as a ‘Western proxy’ has become entrenched. This article advances a social explanation of Russian
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Making decisions under uncertainty: The Prudent Judgement Approach European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Manali Kumar
This article offers an alternative conceptualisation of prudence as encompassing four normative components: reflective reasoning, experience, long-term well-being, and moderation. Prudence involves a pattern of reflective reasoning informed by experience in the pursuit of long-term well-being through moderate judgements and actions. This conceptualisation allows distilling a set of prescriptions for
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Representations of women and gender in DFID's development-security-counterterrorism nexus European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Sofia Patel
In a post-9/11 environment, the Department for International Development (DFID) shifted its strategic focus towards an integrationist approach that aligned mainstream development programming with the national security agenda. A key part of those reforms was integrating counterterrorism – directly and indirectly – into DFID's portfolio. Using a feminist institutionalist approach, I examine how discourses
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Casting the atomic canon: (R)evolving nuclear strategy: A reply European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Lawrence Freedman, Jeffrey H. Michaels
We are grateful to Kjølv Egeland, Thomas Fraise, and Hebatalla Taha for their commentary on the four editions of The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy. In addition to their critique of the book, their review was intended to offer ‘a looking glass into the broader field of nuclear security studies’. Our reply to their review therefore touches both upon their critique, as well as the more general theme of
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‘Prototype warfare’: Innovation, optimisation, and the experimental way of warfare European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Marijn Hoijtink
In recent years, the concept of ‘prototype warfare’ has been adopted by Western militaries to accelerate the experimental development, acquisition, and deployment of emerging technologies in warfare. Building on scholarship at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies and International Relations investigating the broader discursive and material infrastructures that underpin contemporary logics
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Fighters’ motivations for joining extremist groups: Investigating the attractiveness of the Right Sector's Volunteer Ukrainian Corps European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Khalil Mutallimzada, Kristian Steiner
In 2014, eight years prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian-backed separatists seized parts of the Ukrainian regions Luhansk and Donetsk. Shortly thereafter, thousands of Ukrainians voluntarily enrolled to various paramilitary battalions. Unlike the Right Sector's Volunteer Ukrainian Corps (RS VUC), almost all battalions were incorporated into Ukrainian official defence structures
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The politics of future war: Civil-military relations and military doctrine in Britain European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-04-12 David Morgan-Owen, Alex Gould
Tensions between civil and military authorities over issues such as budgets and strategic posture are unavoidable in pluralistic societies. Scholars of Civil-Military Relations (CMR) have identified a range of practices through which civil-military contestation occurs, and examined their implications for issues such as military effectiveness. This literature, however, has yet to incorporate critical
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Integrative pluralism and security studies: The implications for International Relations theory European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Benjamin Banta, Stuart J. Kaufman
The idea of integrative pluralism offers a promising path for the development of theory in international security and international relations. Instead of either trying to shoehorn all theorising into a single, limited paradigm or giving up entirely on theoretical progress, the integrative pluralist approach calls for bringing diverse approaches together. More precisely, integrative pluralism involves
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Calibrating violence: Body counts as a weapon of war European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Thomas Gregory
This article examines how coalition forces sought to weaponise the counting of civilian casualties in Afghanistan between 2008 and 2014. Drawing on interviews with senior coalition officials, recently declassified documents, and coalition data on civilian harm, it will explain how these figures were used to calibrate the violence inflicted on the Afghan people, ensuring that commanders applied sufficient
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The morality of security: A theory of just securitisation: Symposium European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-02-28
The purpose of this introduction is to concisely present The Morality of Security: A Theory of Just Securitization so that those unfamiliar with this work are better able to engage with the symposium. The book develops a Theory of Just Securitisation outlining when securitisation is morally permissible. Securitisation, here, refers to more than a securitising speech act coupled with a legitimising
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The role of non-elites and eyewitness videos in the visual securitisation of Calais asylum seekers European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Vaibhava Shetty
With the advent of smartphones and social media, non-elites possess more resources to engage in politicisation and securitisation of issues. The increasing popularity and acceptance of eyewitness videos captured by non-elites presents new political-security implications, especially for the issue of migration and refugees, as witnessed during the European refugee crisis. The eyewitness videos the host
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The limits of imagination: Securitisation and exceptionalism in the World of Warcraft video game European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Vic Castro
Securitisation theory has too often been associated with the liberal state of exception and its problematic baggage. The Copenhagen School's early claims to deconstruct (not reproduce) the national security logic seem overlooked. Using the fantasy video game World of Warcraft as a large-scale thought experiment, this article asks how a distinct security mode is still possible when the normalisation
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Power/resistance: External actors, local agency, and the Burundian peacebuilding project European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Elise Féron, Keith Krause
Peacebuilding policies and practices represent strong attempts by external actors to exercise power in postconflict settings. Yet the extensive theoretical treatments of power in International Relations remain somewhat disconnected from empirical analyses of peacebuilding, and how external actors exercise power is under-conceptualised in the literature. Likewise, the literature on forms of resistance
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Designs of borders: Security, critique, and the machines – CORRIGENDUM European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Médéric Martin-Mazé,Sarah Perret
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Disaggregating democracy aid to explain peaceful democratisation after civil wars European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2021-12-17 Karina Mross
Democratisation is hailed as a pathway to peace by some, yet, blamed for provoking renewed violence by others. Can democracy aid explain the effect of democratisation after civil war? Building upon findings that transitions to democracy are prone to violence, this article shows that external democracy aid can mitigate such negative effects. It is the first to disaggregate democracy aid and analyse
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Casting the atomic canon: (R)evolving nuclear strategy European Journal of International Security Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Kjølv Egeland, Thomas Fraise, Hebatalla Taha
Looming decisions on arms control and strategic weapon procurements in a range of nuclear-armed states are set to shape the international security environment for decades to come. In this context, it is crucial to understand the concepts, theories, and debates that condition nuclear policymaking. This review essay dissects the four editions of The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy, the authoritative intellectual