Evaluating Power Political Repertoires (EPOS)
EPOS aims to bring about a systematic problem shift in how power politics are studied by moving analytical focus from states' power resources and systemic features of world politics to the actual...
Mali and the Sahel – the geopolitics of conflict, collusion and collaboration
Mali and the Sahel is still facing an acute crisis of climatic variability, poverty and inequality, instability and conflict.
Challenges to the protection of civilians
This seminar takes a closer look on the challenges of protecting civilians.
Special Adviser to the Head of the African Union Peace Support Operations Division (AU Adviser)
On the request of the African Union, Cedric de Coning serves as a Special Adviser to the Head of the Peace Support Division of the African Union Commission. This entails providing advice on the multid...
Follow the money: the role of cross-border networks in natural resource extraction, stolen assets recovery, and tax havens and the regulation of cross-border capital flows from extractive industry in East Africa (FOLLOW)
The project will examine the formal and informal regulation of cross border flows of natural resource wealth, with a particular emphasis on the crossborder networks that are at the heart of much of th...
Developmentality: indirect governance in the World Bank-Uganda partnership
The instituted order of development is changing, creating new power mechanisms ordering the relationship between donor and recipient institutions. Donors’ focus on partnership, participation and ownership has radically transformed the orchestration of aid. While the formal order of this new aid architecture aimed to alter inherently asymmetrical donor–recipient relations by installing the recipient side with greater freedom and responsibility, this article – drawing on an analysis of the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Strategy Paper (PRSP) model and its partnership with Uganda – demonstrates how lopsided aid relations are being reproduced in profound ways. Analysed in terms of developmentality, the article shows how the donor aspires to make its policies those of the recipient as a means to govern at a distance, where promises of greater inclusion and freedom facilitate new governance mechanisms enabling the donor to retain control by framing the partnership and thus limiting the conditions under which the recipient exercises the freedom it has been granted.
United Nations peace operations review (UNPOR )
In October 2014 the UN Secretary-General appointed the High-Level Independent Panel on UN Peace Operations. The Panel is reviewing developments in peacekeeping and special political missions over the ...