VI: National and Area Studies/Études Nationales et Régionales
| DOI | 10.1177/002083451606600106 |
| Published date | 01 February 2016 |
| Date | 01 February 2016 |
| Subject Matter | Abstracts |
VI
NATIONAL AND AREA STUDIES
ÉTUDES NATIONALES ET RÉGIONALES
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ADAMOU, Mamane Sani — Intégration régionale,
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BAKONYI, Jutta — Ideoscapes in the world society:
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AARSTAD, Åsne Kalland — The duty
framing violence in Somalia. Civil Wars 17(2), June 2015 :
to assist and its disincentives: the shipping industry and
242-265.
the Mediterranean migration crisis. Mediterranean Politics
20(3), Nov. 2015 : 413-419.
The article uses the example of the Somali war to analyze how globally
travelling ideas and political concepts are adapted to local settings and
The role of commercial ships in the Mediterranean migration crisis is
translated into frames that promote collective action and feature vio-
little-noticed in the media and by the general public, and largely disre-
lence. It outlines how two ideas with universal claim, nationalism and
garded in the EU’s political responses to the crisis. More importantly, the
modernization were combined with an anti-colonial rhetoric and evolved
commercial shipping industry is rendered invisible in the EU policy
into the meta-narrative of Somali history. This meta-narrative changed
responses to the Mediterranean migration crisis, which disregards both
little, and keywords such as (pan-Somali) nationalism, anti-colonialism,
the efforts and challenges experienced by the industry. For this reason,
development, sovereignty structure most of the discursive repertoires of
this profile zooms in on the migration crisis from the point of view of
political actors in Somalia. The main difference is that politicized clan
commercial shipping, and argues that it is of fundamental importance
affiliations were during the war dragged out of their shadowy existence
that European policy responses to the crisis tackle the multiple disincen-
and placed in the spot-light of political practice. [R, abr.] [See Abstr.
tives experienced by the commercial shipping industry towards upholding
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the duty to render assistance to vessels in distress at sea. [R, abr.]
66.1195
BALDINI, Gianfranco — Is Britain facing a crisis of democ-
66.1190
ALBERTAZZI, Daniele ; GIOVANNINI, Arianna — Surviving
racy? Political Quarterly 86(4), Oct.-Dec. 2015 : 540-549.
the perfect storm: Italy after the 2013 elections. Journal of
Modern Italian Studies 20(4), Sept. 2015 : 427-437.
This article contributes to the debate in this journal about the state of
British democracy. I criticize the tendency to use a “demand-supply”
This introduction sets the background for the analysis developed in this
dichotomy in interpreting the strong distrust experienced by institutions
special issue. The focus is on the new developments that have emerged
and politicians, and especially the idea that all the blame for current
in the aftermath of the momentous 2013 general election, and the way in
problems is to be attributed to the inadequateness of the British political
which these have impacted so far on the Italian political system and its
tradition (BPT). By referring to international data on democracy and to
main political actors. [R] [First of a series of articles on “Italy after the
recent British trends in both public attitudes and institutional innovations,
2013 elections”. See also Abstr. 66.638, 782, 821]
a more nuanced picture on the state of democracy emerges. I argue that
the BPT is not incompatible with incremental changes that have already
introduced innovations in the way politics works in Britain today, and that
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AMIR-MOKRI, Cyrus ; BIGLARI, Hamid — A windfall for
the task of empowering citizens is one of the most delicate aspects in
Iran? The end of sanctions and the Iranian economy.
this process of innovation. [R]
Foreign Affairs 94(6), Nov.-Dec. 2015 : web site.
Over the past few years, the nuclear issue has dominated news about
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BAN, Cornel — Beyond anticommunism: the fragility of
Iran. The landmark deal recently agreed to between Iran and the US and
class analysis in Romania. East European Politics and So-
other world powers sets out arrangements for handling that issue, but it
cieties and Cultures 29(3), Aug. 2015 : 640-650.
leaves open many other questions about Iran’s future course. One of the
most fundamental questions is what path Iran wil fol ow after the sanc-
The debate about socio-economic inequalities and class has become
tions have been lifted: Will it open itself up to the world, fulfilling the
increasingly important in mainstream academic and political debates.
country’s economic potential, or wil the country’s influential conservative
This article shows that during the late 2000s, class analysis was redis-
elite thwart global engagement? Iran’s choice wil have profound geopo-
covered in Romania both as an analytical category and as a category of
litical implications and wil shape the country’s role in the world over the
practice. The evidence suggests that this was the result of two converg-
coming decades. [R]
ing processes: the deepening crisis of Western capitalism after 2008 and
the country’s increasingly transnational networks of young scholars,
journalists, and civil society actors. Although a steady and focused
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ANGERBRANDT, Henrik — Religion, ethnicity and citizen-
interest in class analysis is a novelty in Romania’s academia, media, and
ship: demands for territorial self-determination in south-
political life and has the potential to change the political conversation in
ern Kaduna, Nigeria. Journal of Contemporary African Stud-
the future, so far the social fields where this analysis is practiced have
ies 33(2), Apr. 2015 : 232-250.
remained relatively marginal. [R] [See Abstr. 66.777]
This article analyzes the “politics of scale” of how identity is linked to
territory in the quest for self-determination by actors on the Christian side
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BARNES-DACEY, Julien — Proxy wars: the regional
of the ethno-religious conflict in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Ethnic and
struggle for Syria and Iraq. Orient 56(4), 2015 : 7-12.
political relations are framed with reference to scale, such as “the local”
and “the regional”, in ways that support claims for territorial control on an
Four years after it began, the war in Syria has become the site of an
ethnic and religious basis. The experience of lack of access to the state
entrenched regional struggle. A conflict originally driven by domestic
is seen to be grounded in community identities. Furthermore, the state
grievances has simultaneously emerged as the theater for a wider battle
relates to citizens through religious and neo-customary authorities as a
for control of the regional order which now also extends into Iraq. Iran,
way to localize authority. This is connected to an idea that neo-
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are all competing to assert their influ-
customary institutions represent “the local”. This article argues that these
ence in a manner that is fueling a regional unraveling, including the rise
institutions are just as entangled in various constructions of scale as the
of the Islamic State. [R]
state. [R] [See Abstr. 66.1322]
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BARON, Adam — Yemen: proxy war? Orient 56(4), 2015 :
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AYOOB, Mohammed — Elucidating conflict structures in
27-31.
the Middle East. Orient 56(4), 2015 : 13-19.
The start of a Saudi-led military intervention against Yemen’s Iran-allied
The article argues that extremism and terrorism, including ISIS and al-
Houthi rebels has fueled widespread framings of the conflict as a prox-
ies. While these descriptions convey the increasing regionalization of the
Qaeda, in the Middle East are epiphenomena and not the fundamental
war in Yemen, they elide its deep local roots, obscuring the ultimate
causes of anarchy and mayhem in the region. The fundamental cause is
causes of the ongoing conflict. That being said, they do accurately reflect
the debilitation of states in the Arab world, both in terms of effectiveness
and legitimacy, which leads to state collapse — a process abetted by the
the deepening fissures in Yemeni society, which threaten to stifle any
constructive efforts to resolve the ongoing conflict. [R]
American invasion of Iraq in 2003. The collapse or degeneration of state
authority creates space for terrorist and extremist organizations to take
root and also encourages interference by external powers, both regional
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BASEDAU, Matthias ; KOOS, Carlo — When do religious
ones and from outside the region, in the affairs of weak states thus
leaders support faith-based violence? Evidence from a
further eroding state capacity and contributing to anarchy. Currently, Iraq
survey poll in South Sudan. Political Research Quarterly
and Syria are prime examples of this phenomenon. [R]
68(4), Dec. 2015 : 760-772.
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National and area studies
Religious leaders mobilize believers, cal ing for peace or violence. What
can be understood as varying across subnational jurisdictions (rather
makes religious leaders support peace or promote violence? Drawing on
than as invariant across space) in ways that can be grasped in terms of a
a survey poll of 102 religious leaders in Juba, South Sudan, this study
conceptual distinction between neo-customary and statist forms (rather
correlates pro-violence opinions of religious elites in developing coun-
than as infinitely diverse). Differences between the two have implications
tries, analyzing when and why some religious...
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