COURSE OUTLINE
PART 1: HISTORY OF INTERVENTIONS
Week 1
Class 1: Interventions in the 21st Century - Welcome & General Overview
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Class 2: What are interventions?
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Chandler, David. 2016. “New narratives of international security governance: the shift from global interventionism to global self-policing”. Global Crime, 17 (3-4): 264-280.
SIGAR. 2021. What We Need To Learn: Lessons From Twenty Years Of Afghanistan Reconstruction, available here: https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslearned/SIGAR-21-46-LL.pdf (Introduction, Chapter 1, 2 and 7)
Week 2
Class 3: Interventions during the Cold War: First generation UN Peacekeeping and Proxy Wars
Paul Williams with Bellamy, Alex J. 2010. Understanding Peacekeeping. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Polity Press. [Chapter 3]
Groh, T. L. (2019). The Evolution of Proxy War Since 1945. In Proxy War: The Least Bad Option (1st Ed., Pp. 41–82). Stanford University Press. [Chapter 3]
Class 4: Interventions after the Cold War: Humanitarian Intervention, Responsibility to Protect
Doyle, Michael & Sambanis, N, 2006. Making war and building peace: United Nations peace operations. Princeton University Press.[Chapter 1]
Williams with Bellamy, Alex J. 2010. Understanding Peacekeeping. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Polity Press. [Chapter 4]
Welsh, Jennifer M. 2013. Norm Contestation and the Responsibility to Protect, Global Responsibility to Protect, 5(4), 365-396.
Week 3
Class 5: From UN Peacekeeping to Peace enforcement
Berdal, Mats and David H Ucko. 2015. ‘The Use of Force in UN Peacekeeping Operations: Problems and Prospects’, in The RUSI Journal, Vol. 160, Issue 1, pp. 6-12.
Karlsrud, Jon. 2014. ‘The UN at war: examining the consequences of peace-enforcement mandates for the UN peacekeeping operations in the CAR, the DRC and Mali’, in Third World Quarterly, Vol, 46, Issue 1, pp. 40-54.
Class 6: Liberal interventionism and statebuilding
Oliver P. Richmond. 2006. The problem of peace: understanding the ‘liberal peace’, Conflict, Security & Development, 6:3, 291-314.
Barnett, M., & Zürcher, C. 2009. The peacebuilder’s contract: How external statebuilding reinforces weak statehood. In The dilemmas of statebuilding (pp. 37-66). Routledge.
PART II: POST-LIBERAL INTERVENTIONS
Week 4
Class 7: Post-liberal interventions: conceptual approaches I
Chandler, David. 2012. “Resilience and Human Security: The Post-Interventionist Paradigm.” Security Dialogue 43 (3): 213–229.
Demmers, Jolle, and Lauren Gould. 2018. “An assemblage approach to liquid warfare: AFRICOM and the ‘hunt’ for Joseph Kony”, Security Dialogue 49(5): 364-281.
Class 8: Post-liberal interventions: conceptual approaches II
Doucet, Marc G. 2016. "Global assemblages of security governance and contemporary international intervention." Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 10 (1): 116-132.
Moe, Louise W., and Markus-Michael Mueller. 2017. Complexity, Resilience and the ‘Local Turn’ in Counterinsurgent Warfare. London: Palgrave. [Introduction]
Riemann, Malte and Norma Rossi. 2021. “Remote warfare as “security of being”: reading security force assistance as an ontological security routine”, Defence Studies, 21:4,
Week 5
Class 9: War on Terror and Counterinsurgency
Niva, Steve. 2013. “Disappearing Violence: JSOC and the Pentagon’s new Cartography of Networked Warfare.” Security Dialogue 44 (3): 185–202.
Andersen, Lars Erslev. 2017. “The locals strike back: the Anbar awakening in Iraq and the rise of Islamic State”, in Louise Wiuff Moe and Markus-Michael Mueller (eds.) Reconfiguring Intervention. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2017. 187-205.
Class 10: From Counter-insurgency to complexity approaches
Bell, Colleen and Brad Evans. 2010. “Terrorism to Insurgency: Mapping the Post-Intervention Security Terrain”, Journal of Intervention & State Building, 5 (1): 371-390.
Moe, Louise Wiuff. 2017. “Counterinsurgent warfare and the decentering of sovereignty in Somalia”, in Louise Wiuff Moe and Markus-Michael Mueller (eds.), Reconfiguring Intervention. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2017. 119-140.
Week 6
Class 11: Global Security Assemblages
Abrahamsen, Rita, and Michael C. Williams. 2009. “Security Beyond the State: Global Security Assemblages in International Politics.” International Political Sociology 3 (1): 1–17.
Sandor, Adam. 2016. “Border Security and Drug Trafficking in Senegal: AIRCOP and global security assemblages.” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 10 (4): 490–512.
Class 12: Everywhere wars/Shadow wars
Davidson, Christopher. 2016. Shadow wars: The secret struggle for the Middle East. Simon and Schuster. [Chapter 4]
Gregory, Derek. 2011. "The everywhere war." The Geographical Journal 177 (3): 238-250.
Week 7
Class 13: Remote Warfare, Vicarious Warfare, Surrogate Warfare
Knowles, Emily and Abigail Watson. 2018. Remote Warfare: Lessons Learned from Contemporary Theatres, Remote Warfare Program. London: Oxford Research Group.
Krieg, Andreas, and Jean-Marc Rickli. 2018. “Surrogate warfare: the art of war in the 21st century?.” Defence studies 18 (2): 113-130.
Waldman, Thomas. 2020. Vicarious Warfare: American Strategy and the Illusion of War on the Cheap. Bristol: Bristol University Press. [Introduction and Chapter 1]
Class 14: Security Assistance
Tholens, Simone. 2017. “Border Management in an Era of ‘Statebuilding Lite’: Security Assistance and Lebanon's Hybrid Sovereignty.” International Affairs 93 (4): 865–882.
Wilén, Nina. 2021. "Analysing (In) formal Relations and Networks in Security Force Assistance: The Case of Niger." Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 15 (5): 580-597.
Week 8
Class 15: Resilience and Capacity building
Bueger, Christian, and Simone Tholens. 2021. Theorizing Capacity Building. In: Bueger, C., Edmunds, T., McCabe, R. (eds) Capacity Building for Maritime Security. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Chandler, David. 2012. “Resilience and human security: The post-interventionist paradigm.” Security dialogue 43( 3): 213-229.
Class 16: Stabilization and Fourth Generation Peacekeeping
Cold-Ravnkilde, Signe Marie, and Katja Lindskov Jacobsen. 2020. "Disentangling the security traffic jam in the Sahel: constitutive effects of contemporary interventionism." International Affairs 96 (4): 855-874.
Karlsrud, John. 2019. “From Liberal Peacebuilding to Stabilization and Counterterrorism”, International Peacekeeping, 26 (1):
Week 9
Class 17: Student Presentations
Class 18: Student Presentations
PART III: KEY ISSUES AND ACTORS
Week 10
Class 19: The West
Biddle, Stephen, Julia Macdonald, and Ryan Baker. 2018. “Small footprint, small payoff: The military effectiveness of security force assistance”. Journal of Strategic Studies 41 (1-2): 89-142.
Rittinger, Eric, 2017. “Arming the Other: American Small Wars, Local Proxies, and the Social Construction of the Principal-Agent Problem”. International Studies Quarterly, 61 (2): 396-409.
Matisek, Jahara. 2018. “The crisis of American military assistance: strategic dithering and Fabergé Egg armies." Defense & Security Analysis 34 (3): 267-290.
Class 20: Global contenders - Russia and China
Natulya, Paul. 2021. China’s Blended Approach to Security in Africa. ISPI report, available here: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/chinas-blended-approach-security-africa-31216
Springborg, Robert, F. C. Williams, and John Zavage. 2020. “Security Assistance in the Middle East: A Three-Dimensional Chessboard”. Beirut: Carnegie.
Week 11
Class 21: Regional states
Krieg, Andreas and Jean-Marc Rickli. 2019. Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-First Century, Washington: Georgetown University Press. [Chapter 6 - UAE]
Ostovar, Afshon. 2019. The Grand Strategy of Militant Clients: Iran’s Way of War, Security Studies, 28 (1):
Class 22: International Organisations and non-state actors
BBC. 2021. The lost tablet and the secret documents: Clues pointing to a shadowy Russian army. Full report available here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/8iaz6xit26/the-lost-tablet-and-the-secret-documents
EEAS. 2022. A Strategic Compass for Security and Defence. Available here:
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-7371-2022-INIT/en/pdf
Raineri, Luca, and Francesco Strazzari. 2019. "(B) ordering hybrid security? EU stabilisation practices in the Sahara-Sahel region." Ethnopolitics 18 (5): 544-559.
Week 12
Class 23: Conflict Resolution
Hellmüller, Sara. 2021. “The challenge of forging consent to UN mediation in internationalized civil wars: The case of Syria.” International Negotiation 27 (1): 103-130.
Kane, Sean William. 2022. “Making Peace When the Whole World Has Come to Fight: The Mediation of Internationalized Civil Wars”, International Peacekeeping, 29 (2): 177-203,
Class 24: Stability
Rubrick Biegon & Tom F. A. Watts. 2022. Remote Warfare and the Retooling of American Primacy, Geopolitics, 27:3, 948-971,
Watling, Jack and Nick Reynolds. 2020. War by Others’ Means: Delivering Effective Partner Force Capacity Building (New York: Routledge). Chapters 1 and 2.
Week 13
Class 25: Technology and data
Thomas Gregory. 2015. “Drones, Targeted Killings, and the Limitations of International Law”, International Political Sociology, 9 (3): 197–212.
Hurd, Ian. 2017. "Targeted killing in international relations theory: Recursive politics of technology, law, and practice." Contemporary Security Policy 38 (2): 307-319.
DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency). 2018. Mosaic Warfare. Available at https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/darpa-tiles-together-a-vision-of-mosiac-warfare
Class 26: Protection and Responsibility
Saferworld. 2018. Lawful But Awful? Legal and political challenges of remote warfare and working with partners. Available here: https://www.saferworld.org.uk/resources/publications/1279-lawful-but-awful-legal-and-political-challenges-of-remote-warfare-and-working-with-partners
Cormac, R. and Aldrich, R.J. 2018. “Grey is the new black: covert action and implausible deniability”, International affairs, 94(3), pp.477-494.
Week 14
Class 27: Knowledge and expertise
Gould, Lauren and Nora Stel. 2022. “Strategic ignorance and the legitimation of remote warfare: The Hawija bombardments”, Security Dialogue, 53(1):57-74.
Guevara, Berit Bliesemann de, and Roland Kostić. 2017. “Knowledge Production in/about Conflict and Intervention: Finding ‘Facts’, Telling ‘Truth.’” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 11 (1): 1–20.
Moe, Louise Wiuff and Markus-Michael Mueller. 2018. “Counterinsurgency, knowledge production and the traveling of coercive Realpolitik between Colombia and Somalia”, Cooperation and Conflict, 53(2): 193-215.
Washington Post. 2019. At War with the Truth, Dec 9, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/
Class 28: Summing up the course