Power mediators and the ‘illiberal peace’ momentum: ending wars in Libya and Syria

Costantini, Irene; Santini, Ruth Hanau

doi:10.1080/01436597.2021.1995711

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“…Across the region, authoritarian modes of peacemaking steadily eclipsed any inclination to seek positive and inclusive formulas (Costantini & Hanau Santini, 2022). The moment of inclusive forums for debate was gone.…”

Section: Assessing the Mena Peace Systemmentioning

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In Search of a Middle East and North Africa Peace System

Ahram

2024

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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This article examines the strengths and weaknesses of the peace system in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It views peace not merely as the absence of direct violence but as the result of institutions and systems that mitigate, defuse, and diminish conflict. The peace system of MENA operates at multiple scales and deals with multiple kinds of violent conflict. Different system components produce different forms of positive and negative peace through both formal and informal institutional channels. Consequently, peace in MENA is often uneven and unstable, with progress in one dimension coming at the expense of another. Understanding the gaps and inconsistencies within the MENA peace system can help devise a more realistic and feasible approach to conflict resolution rather than abstract and ultimately impractical ideals. The article identifies shortcomings in the current explanations for the frequency of war, explores the idea of a regional peace system that operates in regional and domestic arenas both formally and informally, and examines policy measures that might bolster or undercut the MENA peace system.

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Section: Assessing the Mena Peace Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

In Search of a Middle East and North Africa Peace System

Ahram

2024

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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“…While these tactics can be used in a stalemate, external counter-peace dynamics could escalate them into localised conflict or civil war. If fuelled by international ideological struggle, an authoritarian, nationalist or imperialist bloc might form, reconstituting regional order based upon the states that emerge from counter-peace processes (Constantini and Santini, 2022;Kobrin, 2020;Öniş and Kutlay, 2020;Soares de Oliveira, 2011;Subedi, 2022). This reflects the way that authoritarian states have also regularly linked up in alliances or formed parallel institutions that both suppress challenges from within their own societies as well as block attempts to expand human rights and democracy in the international sphere.…”

Section: The Rise Of Counter-peace On the International Stagementioning

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The international dynamics of counter-peace

Richmond

Pogodda

Visoka

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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Peace processes and international order are interdependent: while the latter provides the normative framework for the former, peacemaking tools and their underlying ideology also maintain international order. They indicate its viability and legitimacy partly by meeting local claims as well as though the maintenance of geopolitical balances. In the emerging multipolar order, the international peace architecture (IPA), dominated by the liberal international order (LIO), is contested through counter-peace processes. These processes contest the nature of the state, state-society relations and increasingly international order itself. This paper investigates the tactics and strategies of regional actors and great powers, where they engage in peace and order related activities or interventions. Given the weakness and inconsistency of the IPA and the LIO, such contestation leads to challenges to international order itself, often at the expense of the claims of social movements and civil society networks.

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Peace in Digital International Relations

Richmond

Visoka²,

Tellidis³

2023

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The international architecture of peacebuilding and statebuilding is currently responding to a shift from 'analogue' to 'digital' approaches in international relations. This is affecting conflict management, intervention, peacebuilding, and the all-important role of civil society. This Element analyses the potential that these new digital forms of international relations offer for the reform of peace praxis – namely, the enhancement of critical agency across networks and scales, the expansion of claims for rights and the mitigation of obstacles posed by sovereignty, locality, and territoriality. The Element also addresses the parallel limitations of digital technologies in terms of political emancipation related to subaltern claims, the risk of co-optation by historical and analogue power structures, institutions, and actors. We conclude that though aspects of emerging digital approaches to making peace are promising, they cannot yet bypass or resolve older, analogue conflict dynamics revolving around power-relations, territorialism, and state formation.

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Power mediators and the ‘illiberal peace’ momentum: ending wars in Libya and Syria

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

In Search of a Middle East and North Africa Peace System

In Search of a Middle East and North Africa Peace System

The international dynamics of counter-peace

Peace in Digital International Relations

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