13. Violent Conflict and Intervention

Abstract

This chapter analyses patterns of violent conflict in the developing world since the onset of decolonization. It examines shifts in how scholars and policymakers have understood such conflicts, and how these understandings have informed dynamics of foreign interventions and the international peace-building regime that developed in the 1990s. After providing an overview of decolonization and its aftermath, the chapter considers conflicts over social order during the Cold War as well as the nature of conflicts in the post-Cold-War period. It also discusses new forces that shaped conflict during the first decades of the twenty-first century, focusing on militant Islam and the ‘war on terror’, ‘people power’ and its aftermath, and the link between peace-building and military intervention in a multipolar world.

EIBEA 2019. Encontro Iberoamericano de Estudos do Antropoceno. Atas

“…Na ótica de Chandler, este processo tem relegado para segundo plano abordagens ao desenvolvimento focadas na inovação científico-tecnológica e na modernização agrícola (Chandler, 2010, p. 63). Por sua vez, a concentração de conflitos violentos e prolongados tem encontrado resposta internacional no "regime internacional de construção da paz" (o peacebuilding protagonizado pelas Nações Unidas), uma das abordagens estruturais da governação global a tais problemas (Suhrke, Wimpelmann & Samset, 2017).…”

Taliban 2.0 and US National Security Policy in Afghanistan

“…The field of scholarship on Afghanistan in the post-9/11 era is vast. Scholarship addressing the US context is inter-disciplinary and has coalesced around several areas, which include the debates over the efficacy of the US strategy (Goodson, 2015; Hasnat, 2009; Hayworth, 2018; Miller, 2013; Roberts, 2009; Waldman, 2013), counterinsurgency (Cutler, 2017; Suhrke, 2015), state-building (Dodge, 2021; Swenson, 2017) and the efficacy of resource usage (Bilmes, 2014). Given the scale of the US presence, the US mission and the US policy in Afghanistan have been examined in various works.…”