Understanding transnational political realities around the Somali conflict: Emerging assemblages in global politics and the end of "western interventi

了解围绕索马里冲突的跨国政治现实：全球政治中的新兴组合和“西方干预”的结束

• 批准号: 2901827
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2901827
• 关键词: Understanding; transnational; political; realities; around

This proposal outlines a study of transnational political realities around the Somali conflict in order to re-conceptualise the role and significance of the actors and processes shaping political possibilities. It argues that international studies has tended to reduce such dynamics to interactions between "western intervention" and "local" actors. Alternatively, it has focused on theorising the political behaviours of "local" and "regional" actors, in opposition to, and for the sake of, "western intervention." Instead, this study will follow a number of significant moves in the literature to de- centre "western intervention" in the study of transnational political realities around conflict. To do this it will develop an assemblage approach to frame an empirical investigation of the transnational political dynamics around the Somali conflict, that does not start with categories such as "local", "regional" or "western" or focus on processes of "intervention". Instead, it would develop a holistic and re-conceptualised understanding of the multiplicity of actors shaping dynamics in conflict zones - their role, networks, and discourses - and how they exercise and negotiate power to shape political possibilities. It will do this through a global political ethnography that will develop a thick description, of the workings of this assemblage across three intersecting policy areas - elections, security sector reform, and revenue-sharing. It will use this thick description to re-assess and reconceptualise the transnational actors, discourses and processes shaping political possibilities, as well as contribute to debates on the changing global politics and "international order", from a context hitherto marginalised in such discussions.

该提议概述了一项研究围绕索马里冲突的跨国政治现实的研究，以重新概念化行为者的作用和意义，并塑造了塑造政治可能性的作用和过程。它认为，国际研究倾向于将这种动态减少到“西方干预”和“地方”参与者之间的相互作用。另外，它的重点是理论化“地方”和“区域”行为者的政治行为，以反对“西方干预”，并为了“西方干预”。取而代之的是，这项研究将遵循文献中的许多重大行动，以在围绕冲突的跨国政治现实的研究中进行“西方干预”。为此，它将开发一种组合方法，以构建围绕索马里冲突的跨国政治动态的实证研究，这不是从诸如“地方”，“区域”或“西方”或专注于“干预过程”的类别开始的。取而代之的是，它将对塑造冲突地区动态的演员的多样性（他们的角色，网络和话语）以及他们如何行使和谈判塑造政治可能性的力量。它将通过全球政治民族志来实现这一目标，该政治民族志将对在三个相交政策领域的组合的工作 - 选举，安全部门改革和收入共享。它将使用这种厚实的描述来重新评估和重新概念化跨国参与者，构成政治可能性的论述和过程，并从迄今在此类讨论中被边缘化的环境中对不断变化的全球政治和“国际秩序”的辩论做出贡献。