Transactions and Interactions: Everyday Life in the Peacekeeping Economy
Developmentality. An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry, this book critically examines how the new aid architecture recasts aid relations as a partnership. While intended to alter an asymmetrical relationship by fostering greater recipient participation and ownership, this book demonstrates how donors still seek to retain control through other indirect and informal means. The concept of developmentality shows how the World Bank’s ability to steer a client’s behavior is disguised by the underlying ideas of partnership, ownership, and participation, which come with other instruments through which the Bank manipulates the aid recipient into aligning with its own policies and practices.
The 2015 Military Power Seminar: Use of Force in UN Peace Operations
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The Global Village Myth
Patrick Porter presents his book, The Global Village Myth - Distance, War, and the Limits of Power, and disputes globalism's claims and the outcomes that so often waste blood and treasure in the pursuit of an unattainable "total" security.
Between emerging economies and protracted conflict: challenges to sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Politics of Conflict Economies: Miners, Merchants and Warriors in the African Borderland