Global Interventionism

Recommended Prerequisites

- Fluency in English.

- Knowledge of techniques and styles of academic writing.

Teaching Methods

The curricular unit follows an interactive methodology within the classroom, based on individual and autonomous work by the student. Given the relevance of the case studies analysis in the context of global interventionism, as well as of the relationship between models and practices, the periodical evaluation assessment includes: participation, presentation and an essay.

Learning Outcomes

 This curricular unit aims at identifying processes and forms of external intervention in host countries, including humanitarian issues, development aid and peace missions. The students should be able to:

- identify the nature of the intervention dynamics, agents and contexts;

- map the responses/(re)actions to situations of violence, critically analysing the translation of models of intervention into politics and practices.

These goals are directed at the development of analytical competencies with a strong empirical component.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

  1. Introduction. Global interventionism: policies and practices

1.1. Intervention in the field: actors, contexts and dynamics. Who? For whom? How? Where? With what objective(s)?

2. Case-studies analysis

2.1. Timor-Leste

2.2. Libya

2.3. Haiti

3. Security, development and humanitarianism: a critical analysis

4. Conclusions

Head Lecturer(s)

Teresa Paula Almeida Cravo

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%

Bibliography

Dennys, Christian (2014) Military Intervention, Stabilisation and Peace: The search for stability. London: Routledge.

Duffield, Mark (2001) Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security. London: Zed Books.

Freire, Maria Raquel e Lopes, Paula Duarte (2014) Número especial da Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 104.

Greener , B. K. and Fish, W. J. (2014) Internal Security and Statebuilding: Aligning Agencies and Functions. London: Routledge.

Gros, Jean-Germain (2011) State Failure, Underdevelopment, and Foreign Intervention in Haiti. London: Routledge.

Pattison, James (2014) Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect: Who Should Intervene?Oxford University Press.

Richmond, Oliver (2014) Failed Statebuilding: Intervention, the State, and the Dynamics of Peace Formation. Yale University Press.

Weiss Thomas G. (2012) Humanitarian Intervention. 2nd edition. London: Polity.