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Keeping a War Hidden 隐藏战争
Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2021.1955649
Robert P. Hager
ABSTRACT There have been conflicts where intervening states take pains to keep their role at least somewhat hidden. Sometimes this is for the purpose of avoiding escalation. What is interesting is that states on both sides of a conflict might wish to keep knowledge of the other side’s actions hidden. States also fight their wars by using groups inside a target state as proxies. This also can serve as a way of keep a conflict limited.
在一些冲突中,介入的国家会尽力隐藏自己的角色,至少在某种程度上是这样。有时这是为了避免冲突升级。有趣的是,冲突双方的国家可能都希望对对方的行动保密。国家还利用目标国家内部的组织作为代理人进行战争。这也可以作为限制冲突的一种方式。
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引用次数: 0
The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World 印度之路:不确定世界的战略
Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2021.1955648
A. Sahu
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引用次数: 23
Exploring Youths’ Willingness to Engage with Civil Society and Public Sector Institutions: The Untapped Potential of Religious Communities in Preventing Violent Extremism 探讨青年参与民间社会和公共部门机构的意愿:宗教团体在防止暴力极端主义方面尚未开发的潜力
Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2021.1950383
Håvard Haugstvedt, Martin M. Sjøen
ABSTRACT Research on preventing violent extremism is still in its infancy concerning the question of who the target audiences might be willing to talk to if they need help. To explore this question, we utilized the “Young in Oslo” dataset from 2015, where attitudes toward the use of violence were expressed by students in upper-secondary school (n = 7801). Our analysis revealed that youths who support the use of violence were open to talking to adults in religious organizations if they needed help. This suggests that religious communities should be both consulted and partnered with more closely when (re-)designing prevention work.
预防暴力极端主义的研究仍处于起步阶段,涉及目标受众在需要帮助时可能愿意与谁交谈的问题。为了探讨这个问题,我们使用了2015年的“奥斯陆的年轻人”数据集,其中高中生对使用暴力的态度(n = 7801)。我们的分析显示,如果需要帮助,支持使用暴力的年轻人愿意与宗教组织中的成年人交谈。这表明,在(重新)设计预防工作时,应该与宗教团体进行更密切的磋商和合作。
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引用次数: 4
Leading by Example, Lighting the World: Open Government, Transparency, and Soft Power in Obama’s National Security Policy 以身作则,照亮世界:奥巴马国家安全政策中的开放政府、透明度和软实力
Pub Date : 2021-06-07 DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2021.1934671
James J. Marquardt
ABSTRACT Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama promoted open government and transparency at home and abroad as instruments of American soft power. President Obama sought to improve the American people’s confidence in democracy by making the executive branch of the national government more open and transparent. Through the power of its example, Obama further sought to encourage other countries to do the same and want what America wants: the strengthening of liberal democracy globally, greater openness and transparency in international relations generally, and reinvigorated American leadership of the liberal international order. This paper relies on Obama’s own words, White House documents, and government reports to demonstrate why and how his administration sought to assert America’s global leadership through the power of America’s example. It identifies Obama’s open government and transparency agenda as a critical tool of the administration’s national security strategy to address growing disillusionment with liberal democratic governance in America and elsewhere and to counter the rising challenge to the liberal order by rival, authoritarian states – China and Russia especially.
在他的总统任期内,巴拉克·奥巴马在国内外推动政府开放和透明度,以此作为美国软实力的工具。奥巴马总统试图通过使国家政府的行政部门更加公开和透明来提高美国人民对民主的信心。通过其榜样的力量,奥巴马进一步寻求鼓励其他国家也这样做,并想要美国想要的:加强全球自由民主,在国际关系中更加开放和透明,并重振美国在自由国际秩序中的领导地位。本文依靠奥巴马自己的话、白宫文件和政府报告来证明他的政府为什么以及如何通过美国榜样的力量来维护美国的全球领导地位。它将奥巴马的开放政府和透明度议程确定为政府国家安全战略的关键工具,以解决美国和其他地方对自由民主治理的日益幻灭,并应对竞争对手,专制国家-特别是中国和俄罗斯-对自由秩序的日益增长的挑战。
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引用次数: 0
Under Pressure: Security and Stability Related Challenges for Liberal Democracy in North-western Europe 压力之下:西北欧自由民主的安全与稳定挑战
Pub Date : 2021-05-15 DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2021.1920930
Annelies van Vark
ABSTRACT Liberal democracy in the world is under pressure. This article will specifically look at security and stability related challenges for liberal democracy in a specific region, namely North-western Europe. As will be shown, three distinct security and stability related challenges put pressure on liberal democracy in this region. Firstly, the struggle by states to provide security for their citizens in an era where the blurring of internal and external security leads to “new” security threats. Secondly, the decline of social cohesion in society, causing unrest and instability. Thirdly, the undermining of liberal democracy by the state. As will be shown, these challenges have an impact on the organizations working in the security domain as well, in particular the armed forces and the police. Paradoxically, efforts by governments to counter the security and stability related challenges could eventually lead to a declining stability of liberal democracy.
世界上的自由民主正面临压力。本文将特别关注自由民主在一个特定地区(即西北欧)面临的安全和稳定相关挑战。如下所示,三个与安全和稳定相关的不同挑战给该地区的自由民主带来了压力。首先,在一个内部和外部安全模糊导致“新的”安全威胁的时代,各国为其公民提供安全的斗争。其次,社会凝聚力下降,造成社会动荡和不稳定。第三,国家对自由民主的破坏。下面将说明,这些挑战也影响到在安全领域工作的组织,特别是武装部队和警察。矛盾的是,政府应对安全和稳定相关挑战的努力最终可能导致自由民主的稳定性下降。
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引用次数: 2
Women, Intelligence Gathering and Countering Violent Extremism in Nigeria: A Postcolonial Feminist Discourse 尼日利亚妇女、情报收集和打击暴力极端主义:后殖民女性主义话语
Pub Date : 2021-05-15 DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2021.1920929
Chikodiri Nwangwu, Freedom Chukwudi Onuoha, G. E. Ezirim, K. C. Iwuamadi
ABSTRACT Within the analytic purview of postcolonial feminist theory, this article investigates how women leverage their intelligence-gathering capabilities in Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) in Nigeria. Although P/CVE is widely perceived as an androcentric project, the threat posed by violent extremism to global peace and security has heightened the clamor for increased involvement of women in the formulation and implementation of peace and security policies in Africa. In 2000, this clamor gained international recognition and support following the adoption of the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 which focuses on Women, Peace and Security (WPS). The resolution acknowledges the disproportionate impact of violent conflict on women and recognizes that women empowerment and gender equality are critical to the attainment of sustainable global peace and security. Notwithstanding, most Euro-American and other global frameworks against women victimization tend to accord the contributions of African women in P/CVE an epiphenomenal consideration. While academic discourses focus more closely on the victim-vanguard narratives of women in relation to terrorism and insurgency, the role of women in intelligence gathering for P/CVE has not received the needed attention in the literature. The universalizing posturing and influence of most global frameworks against women victimization hardly account for the role of African women, with their deep knowledge of their homes, families and communities, as invaluable resource for gathering actionable intelligence crucial for effective P/CVE.
在后殖民女性主义理论的分析范围内,本文研究了尼日利亚妇女如何利用她们在预防/打击暴力极端主义(P/CVE)中的情报收集能力。尽管人们普遍认为男女平等是一个以男性为中心的项目,但暴力极端主义对全球和平与安全构成的威胁,使人们更加强烈地要求妇女更多地参与非洲和平与安全政策的制定和执行。2000年,联合国安理会通过了以妇女、和平与安全为重点的第1325号决议,这一呼声得到了国际社会的认可和支持。该决议承认暴力冲突对妇女造成的不成比例的影响,并认识到赋予妇女权力和性别平等对实现可持续的全球和平与安全至关重要。尽管如此,大多数欧美和其他反对妇女受害的全球框架倾向于特别考虑非洲妇女在男女平等方面的贡献。虽然学术话语更密切地关注与恐怖主义和叛乱有关的妇女的受害者-先锋叙述,但妇女在P/CVE情报收集中的作用在文献中没有得到必要的关注。大多数反对妇女受害的全球框架的普遍化姿态和影响很难说明非洲妇女的作用,因为她们对自己的家庭、家庭和社区有深刻的了解,是收集对有效的P/CVE至关重要的可行动情报的宝贵资源。
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引用次数: 3
Cybersecurity: Politics, Governance and Conflict in Cyberspace 网络安全:网络空间中的政治、治理与冲突
Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2021.1913699
C. S. Lee
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引用次数: 1
Incitement, Anwar Al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad 煽动,安瓦尔·奥拉基的西方圣战
Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2021.1913698
Daniel E. Levenson
It has been over a decade now since the influential Islamist terrorist ideologue and facilitator Anwar Al-Awlaki was killed by US forces, and his legacy as a propagator of particularly pernicious propaganda and source of extremist inspiration, still lives on. In both life and death Awlaki’s methods have drawn the interest of not only counterterrorism practitioners and scholars, but captured the popular imagination as well, with his apparent facility with social media combined with his command of English and the impressive, if somewhat questionable upon closer inspection, credentials, he claimed as a scholar of Islam, casting him in a unique light, effectively rendering him, at times, an object as much of fascination of scorn in the west. This “popularity” and how Awlaki achieved, maintained, and used it to further the cause of violent jihad, is the focus of a new book by author Alexander MeleagrouHitchens, who does an excellent job of outlining the ways in which Awlaki harnessed social media and other online platforms to facilitate the spread of extremist Islamist ideology, and of terrorist violence in its name. Perhaps even more crucially, the author highlights the ways in which Awlaki is also clearly of a type, sharing both personal traits and methods with a range of other violent extremists rooted in a wide range of motivating ideologies. An awareness of these two aspects of Awlaki’s approach is critical for understanding why he was so successful. Awlaki was both highly motivated and creative when it came to his use of technology to spread violent Islamist ideology, and at the same time, it becomes clear in the this book that the backbone of his approach rested solidly on a foundation of previously proven propaganda techniques, employed by everyone from 19 century European Anarchists to left-wing radicals in 1960’s America to the militia and white supremacist movements of the last forty years. Awlaki proved a master propagandist, concocting a seemingly coherent worldview that was a mix of historical reframing, psychological manipulation, leveraging of individuals’ search for identity, as well as collective grievance and the concept of the spectacle of the deed – the same things that facilitators of terrorism and other forms of political violence have used for more than a century to transform discontent into violence. In this sense, highly effective but hardly unique. Meleagrou-Hitchens centers this work around an exploration of Awlaki’s personal evolution and his use of the aforementioned strategy and tactics, presenting a troubling portrait of an individual whose deadly influence has outlived his life as well as compelling lessons for both scholars and practitioners of counterterrorism. The observations shared and lessons gleaned from this book go beyond what one can say about Awlaki specifically, and provide both context and additional ways to think about the phenomena of both “radicalization” and “terrorism” in general, and with regard to t
颇具影响力的伊斯兰恐怖主义理论家和推动者安瓦尔•奥拉基(Anwar Al-Awlaki)被美军击毙已经过去了十多年,而他作为特别有害宣传的传播者和极端主义灵感来源的遗产仍然存在。无论是生是死,奥拉基的方法不仅引起了反恐从业人员和学者的兴趣,而且还抓住了大众的想象力。他在社交媒体上表现出的娴熟,加上他对英语的掌握,以及他自称是伊斯兰学者的令人印象深刻的资历(仔细一看可能有些可疑),给他带来了独特的光彩,有效地使他有时成为西方嘲笑的对象。这种“人气”以及奥拉基是如何获得、维持并利用它来进一步推动暴力圣战事业的,是作者亚历山大·梅莱格鲁·希钦斯(Alexander MeleagrouHitchens)新书的重点。他出色地概述了奥拉基是如何利用社交媒体和其他在线平台来促进极端伊斯兰主义意识形态的传播,以及以其名义传播恐怖主义暴力的。也许更重要的是,作者强调了奥拉基显然也是一种类型,他与其他一系列根植于各种激励意识形态的暴力极端分子共享个人特征和方法。了解奥拉基方法的这两个方面对于理解他为何如此成功至关重要。奥拉基在利用技术传播暴力伊斯兰主义意识形态时,既具有高度的积极性,又具有创造性,同时,本书也清楚地表明,他的方法的支柱是建立在先前被证明的宣传技术的基础上的,从19世纪的欧洲无政府主义者到20世纪60年代美国的左翼激进分子,再到过去40年的民兵和白人至上主义运动,所有人都使用过这种宣传技术。奥拉基被证明是一个宣传大师,他炮制了一个看似连贯的世界观,这个世界观混合了历史重构、心理操纵、利用个人对身份的追求、以及集体不满和行为奇观的概念——一个多世纪以来,恐怖主义和其他形式的政治暴力的推动者一直在用同样的东西把不满转化为暴力。从这个意义上说,它非常有效,但并不独特。梅莱格罗-希钦斯的这本书围绕着奥拉基的个人演变和他对上述战略和战术的运用展开了探索,呈现了一个令人不安的人物形象,他的致命影响超过了他的生命,同时也为反恐学者和实践者提供了引人注目的教训。从这本书中所分享的观察和收集到的经验教训,超出了人们对奥拉基的具体看法,并提供了背景和额外的方式来思考“激进化”和“恐怖主义”的一般现象,特别是关于这两个概念的交集和社交媒体。因此,这个成交量似乎很有可能
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Sporting Mega-Event Security in Hyperreality and its Consequences for Democratic Security Governance 超现实中的体育大事件安全及其对民主安全治理的影响
Pub Date : 2021-03-27 DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2021.1891529
A. Aitken
ABSTRACT Within the sporting mega-events literature three key developments exist: 1. Security is performative and symbolic; 2. Security reactivates state authority and legitimacy in developing security responses; 3. Security measures have discernible security ‘legacies’. Taking a case study of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the resultant securitization of an existing residential community, this article uses Baudrillard’s concepts of hyperreality and simulation (1981) and the ‘virtual’ (2005) to examine the above developments in depth. It is shown that mega-event securitization operates as a form of hyperreal performativity. For local residents, this heightens perceptions of risk, increases demands for security, and legitimizes security measures which impact on democratic freedoms.
在体育大型赛事文献中存在三个关键的发展:1。安全感是表现性的和象征性的;2. 安全重新激活国家权力和制定安全对策的合法性;3.安全措施具有明显的安全“遗产”。本文以2014年在格拉斯哥举行的英联邦运动会和由此产生的现有住宅社区的证券化为例,使用鲍德里亚的超现实和模拟(1981)以及“虚拟”(2005)的概念来深入研究上述发展。研究表明,大事件证券化是一种超真实的表演形式。对当地居民来说,这提高了对风险的认识,增加了对安全的要求,并使影响民主自由的安全措施合法化。
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Coup or Not Coup: The African Union and the Dilemma of “Popular Uprisings” in Africa 政变或不政变:非洲联盟与非洲“人民起义”的困境
Pub Date : 2021-03-25 DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2021.1899915
Ndubuisi Christian Ani
ABSTRACT Since 2011, Africa witnessed 7 different forms of popular uprisings leading to the overthrow of ruling heads of state. This includes the situations in Libya, Egypt and Tunisia in 2011, Burkina Faso in 2014, Zimbabwe in 2017 as well as the recent cases in Algeria and Sudan in 2019. During these uprisings, the African Union (AU) is criticized for its lack of responsiveness to government crackdown, but quick action to condemn the military-supported revolution. Using the case of Sudan, this article examines the complexities of popular uprisings in Africa and AU’s challenge in managing the situation. The paper argues that the AU faces the dilemma of protecting the rights of peaceful protesters in a sovereign state and ensuring long-term stability, including preventing the history of military adventurism on the continent. Yet, its role has often leaned disproportionately toward maintaining stability, which raises criticisms that it favors state regimes as opposed to its human-centric and democratic commitments. To enhance its credibility, the AU must adopt proactive roles to protect protesters against government crackdowns. Additionally, the AU needs to augment its existing African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG) with actionable policy guidance for protesters, governments, and security agencies during popular uprisings.
自2011年以来,非洲发生了7起不同形式的民众起义,最终推翻了执政的国家元首。这包括2011年利比亚、埃及和突尼斯的情况,2014年布基纳法索的情况,2017年津巴布韦的情况,以及2019年阿尔及利亚和苏丹最近发生的情况。在这些起义中,非洲联盟(AU)被批评对政府镇压反应迟钝,却迅速采取行动谴责军方支持的革命。本文以苏丹为例,探讨了非洲民众起义的复杂性,以及非盟在控制局势方面面临的挑战。文章认为,非盟面临着既要保护主权国家和平抗议者的权利,又要确保长期稳定的两难境地,包括防止非洲大陆军事冒险主义的历史。然而,它的角色往往不成比例地倾向于维持稳定,这引发了批评,认为它倾向于国家政权,而不是以人为本和民主的承诺。为了提高其信誉,非盟必须发挥积极作用,保护抗议者不受政府镇压。此外,非盟需要加强其现有的《非洲民主、选举和治理宪章》(ACDEG),为民众起义期间的抗议者、政府和安全机构提供可操作的政策指导。
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