By: Paul Amar (Editor)

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In the 21st century, globalizing development agendas have often become inseparable from militarized or "securitized" interventions: aid missions embed themselves in walled police compounds, international organizations focus on quelling insurgencies, private investments flood the protection sector, and trade agreements are built on or broken by questions of national security, food security, oil security, etc. Recent studies have argued that this merging of developmentalism and securitization has been legitimized and enacted by discourses of humanitarianism and human security, and by the neo-colonial politics of tutelage and protection.

The scholarship on this development/security nexus has focused its critique on European or North American interventions, particularly in states occupied in times of war, or in so-called "failed states" where national sovereignty is weak and imperial legacies are strong. But these studies have left unexamined the role of states and transnational formations in the global south as agents except when seen as receivers or victims of Eurocentric agendas. This collection addresses these gaps in the literature by focusing, instead, on emergent powers in the global south that are transforming and deploying distinct internationalist security and development models.

This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Foreword Richard Falk, Princeton University 1. Introduction: Global South to the Rescue Paul Amar, University of California, Santa Barbara Section One: Globalizing Peacekeeper Identities 2. Peacexploitation? Interrogating Labor Hierarchies and Global Sisterhood Amongst Indian and Uruguayan Female Peacekeepers Marsha Henry, London School of Economics 3. Martial Races and Enforcement Masculinities of the Global South: Weaponising Fijian, Chilean, and Salvadoran Postcoloniality in the Mercenary Sector Paul Higate, University of Bristol 4. The Pacification of Soldiering, and the Militarization of Development: Contradictions Inherent in Provincial Reconstruction in Afghanistan Ryerson Christie, University of Bristol Section Two: Assertive "Regional Internationalisms" 5. Turkey: An Emerging Hub of Globalization and Internationalist Humanitarian Actor? Resat Bayer, Koc University, and FouatKeyman,Sabanci University 6. Globalising Security Culture and Knowledge in Practice: Nigeria's Hybrid Model Alice Hills, University of Leeds 7. Indonesia and the Liberal Peace: Recovering Southern Agency in Global Governance Jonathan Agensky, University of Cambridge, and Joshua Barker, University of Toronto 8. Kenya and International Security: Enabling Globalization, Stabilising 'Stateness,' and Deploying 'Humanitarian Counterterrorism' Jan Bachman, Gothenburg Centre of Globalization and Development and the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Section Three: Emergent Alternative Paradigms 9. Bolivarian Globalization?: The New Left's Struggle in Latin America and the Caribbean to Negotiate a Revolutionary Approach to Humanitarian Militarism and International Intervention Thomas Muhr, University of Bristol 10. Brazil's Grand Design for Combining Global South Solidarity and National Interests: A Discussion of Peacekeeping Operations in Haiti and Timor W.Alejandro Sanchez Nieto, Council on Hempispheric Affairs, (COHA), Washington, DC. 11. Egypt as a Globalist Power: Mapping Military Participation in Decolonizing Internationalism, Repressive Entrepreneurialism, and Humanitarian Globalization between the Revolutions of 1952 and 2011 Paul Amar, University of California, Santa Barbara

ISBN: 9780415577953
ISBN-10: 0415577950
Series: Rethinking Globalizations
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 216
Published: 16th July 2012
Dimensions (cm): 24.6 x 17.4
Weight (kg): 0.524