Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2074563
S. Mohamed
come from an antipathy towards mainstream LGBT movements in the West, which are perceived as striving to overcome queer marginalisation by seeking assimilation into the hegemonic temporal trajectories of homonormativity and “chrononormativity”’ (16). Rather than suggesting that LGBTQIAþmovements in the Global South will simply follow this script, Out of Time shows that these spaces are being rendered in the terms of a homocapitalism which itself, it seems, has no bounds.
来自于对西方主流LGBT运动的反感，这些运动被认为是通过寻求同化到同性恋和“时间规范”的霸权时间轨迹中来努力克服酷儿边缘化。《Out of Time》并没有暗示全球南方的lgbtqia&g运动将简单地遵循这个剧本，而是表明这些空间正在以一种同性资本主义的方式呈现，而这种资本主义本身似乎没有界限。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2082795
Italo Brandimarte, Martin Kirsch
In the fourth issue of Volume 35 of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, we are convening a Special Issue on ‘The Rise of Populism in Europe and Its Effect on Democracy Promotion’, developed by our guest editors Dennis Hammerschmidt, Cosima Meyer, and Anne Pintsch. We leave it to the guest editors’ excellent introduction to draw out the issue’s themes, contributions, and positionality. Yet we do note that the special issue is shedding light on a research area whose political relevance is likely to increase in the upcoming years. Both the rise of populism and the global decline of democracy and of its international promotion have been important arenas of domestic and global politics throughout the post-Cold War period, and we welcome the endeavour to bridge these two research areas. In line with CRIA’s intellectual commitment, the contributions in this Special Issue thus engage in lowering empirical and conceptual boundaries between different disciplinary subfields. Apart from the contributions to the Special Issue, this issue of CRIA includes two book reviews. Svati P. Shah reviews Rahul Rao’s recent publication Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality, which explores the intersection of queer politics and (homo)nationalism in the Global South, primarily India and Uganda. Furthermore, Surer Mohamed reviews Oumar Ba’s States of Justice: The Politics of the International Court, which offers a critical assessment of existing scholarship on international justice and the ICC. The fourth issue of volume 35 also contains three standalone original research articles. Sara Kahn-Nisser investigates the relationship between the EU exports to China and its human rights policies. Edmond Were explores the transformation of development projects in the East African Community region. Finally, Laura Pantzerhielm, Anna Holzscheiter, and Thurid Bahr analyze discourses and norms in global health governance. We thank all contributors to this issue, and especially our guest editors Dennis, Cosima, and Anne, for choosing CRIA as the platform to present their research. We would also like to extend our gratitude to our peer reviewers, who continue to support this journal with their invaluable commitment and contributions, and to our editorial team. We are also pleased to announce new additions to our team: Martin Kirsch has been promoted to co-Editor in Chief; Anni Roth Hjermann has joined the team as Managing Editor, and Caio Simoneti has become our new Features Editor. We are enormously grateful to Niyousha Bastani and Edward Murambwa, who have just finished their terms as co-Editor in Chief and Features Editor, respectively, for their enormous commitment and contributions to this journal. Their passion and empathy have been invaluable in upholding CRIA’s inclusive ethos, promote new scholarship, and foster a sense of community in our team. We would like to emphasize that we continue to welcome proposals for special issues (directed to the Editors in
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2078685
Anna-Lena Hönig, Shirin Tumenbaeva
Abstract We know surprisingly little about the impact of democratic decline in the EU on foreign policy and on democracy promotion efforts in particular. We examine qualitative and quantitative changes in aid allocation for democracy promotion alongside declining levels of democracy in the EU and its members. Focusing on decision-makers’ perspectives, we explain these changes with strategic and constructivist approaches. We analyse multilateral and bilateral aid flows from the EU and its members to Central Asia with data from OECD and IATI from 2000 to 2018. We identify quantitative changes in aid promoting democracy in Central Asia, which can be partially attributed to the donors’ increasing challenges for democracy at home. While the overall aid levels remained stable, we also identify qualitative shifts in allocation patterns favouring government institutions rather than civil society organisations. Our findings address the impact of democratic decline on foreign policy towards non-democratic states outside the European neighbourhood.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-25DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2089545
M. Özşahin, Cenap Çakmak
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Pub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2090896
T. Lowman
Abstract This article explores the role of human rights discourse in reframing the changing diplomatic relationship of the United Kingdom and Uganda during Idi Amin’s dictatorship of 1971-1979. The emergence of a violent military dictatorship in Uganda in the early 1970s posed difficult questions for Britain, which had played a central role in the creation of the Ugandan nation-state in the colonial era and maintained many connections to it. In the first years of Amin’s rule the UK had adopted a pragmatic stance, in which human rights concerns were not considered, and geopolitical and economic concerns came first. However, in the mid 1970s the emergence of an energetic transnational ‘community of conscience’ contributed to a reframing of the UK’s stance on Uganda in explicit human rights terminology. This was a limited and sometimes contradictory shift that also served to obscure embarrassing aspects of the UK-Uganda relationship.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-15DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2082797
Anne Pintsch, Dennis Hammerschmidt, Cosima Meyer
Abstract International democracy promotion has been facing various challenges for a while. Among those are the decline of democracy and the rise of populism in donor countries. To date, however, there is little knowledge about their impact on democracy promotion. This article introduces a Special Issue that explores these challenges. After a general overview of the topic and consideration of the thematic focus of most contributions to the Special Issue, the introductory article elaborates in more detail on the relationship between populism and democracy promotion. Based on reviews of the debates about populism and democracy on the one hand and populism and foreign policy on the other hand, the article outlines three pathways through which populists may influence democracy promotion: (1) individual states, (2) international organizations and (3) civil society. In addition, the article summarizes the main findings of the contributions to the Special Issue and draws some general conclusions and perspectives for further research.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-31DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2059637
R. Persaud
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Pub Date : 2022-05-25DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2078278
L. Odgaard
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Pub Date : 2022-05-12DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2074817
Z. Çapan
Abstract The ‘international’, the ‘global’, the ‘world’ have become different ways of characterising what it is IR as a field studies. The semantic change signals two dynamics. Firstly, the assumption being that the international has to be replaced or ‘superseded’ with another concept since either the ‘international’ never did or at present does not reflect the ‘reality’ of what exists out there, which presupposes an exact relationship between the signifier and the signified. The second point following from that is the prescription of a development into the ‘change’ in the words whereby a ‘better’ descriptor has to be assigned that is presented as being not only larger in scale but also more progressive. The article argues that the anxieties with respect to the object of study of the field of IR stem from contradictions inherent in the concept of the international, which are not specific to it but are rooted in the way disciplinary knowledge was established and as such cannot be addressed solely through a replacement/superseding. The first section of the article will discuss how disciplinary knowledge was constructed and organised through Wallerstein’s concept of TimeSpace which explains the formation of disciplinary knowledge along three axes: past/present, West/non-West and autonomous domains. The second section will discuss how the three axes of past/present, West/non-West and autonomous domains worked in creating the contradictions of the international. The third section then focuses specifically on what it means to bring in the ‘global’ to overcome contradictions of the international and how the global continues to reproduce the contradictions of the international.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-12DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2022.2074559
Svati P. Shah
Over the past two decades, the discursive prism of development that historically marked India and Southern Africa in scholarship across disciplines has increasingly been subsumed within the neo-developmentalist prism of neoliberalism. This has been accompanied by attendant visions of places like India and Uganda as markets that could rival those of other national formations in Asia and in the West. The visibility and legibility of queer and transgender social movements in the Global South over this period has been read through the lens of neoliberalism within analyses that are keen to mark queer and trans-visibility signs of global capitalism’s success. If the conjoined prism of neoliberalism and liberal LGBTQIAþmovements in the Global South has produced a kind of circumscribed legibility for non-heteronormative lives, the idea that neoliberalism has somehow facilitated either queer and trans legibility or liberation in nonWestern worlds is equally contested and complicated across a host of disciplinary engagements, including queer theory, comparative literature, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, and in International Relations, as in Rahul Rao’s ethnographically informed work, Out of Time. Celebratory critiques of the era of neoliberalism and rising queer and transgender visibility in the Global South are often framed by an implicit, or explicit, argument that the expansion of privatisation and marketisation leads to greater individual freedoms for all (for example, see Frank, Boutcher, and Camp 2009). While critiques of neoliberalism have been essential in work that aims to mitigate the ‘illiberalism’ of neo-populist resistance to queer and transgender rights in certain regional contexts (e.g. Binnie 2014), mapping neoliberalism onto queer and transgender progress—usually rendered the expansion of juridical rights and recognition for LGBTQ-identified individuals—has come under scrutiny both for its reproduction of the immanence of the telos of progress to humanism, (Eng 2010) and for its conflation of freedom with a constrained version of juridical legibility. These critiques have been rendered via critiques of racialised hierarchies of human development and enlightenment thought. Rao builds on these critiques with a view towards meaningfully assessing the status of queer sexuality politics to the telos of development within nationalist imaginaries, where the meaning of sexual ‘progress’ within ‘national progress’ is highly debated. The basis for a re-examination of this chrononormativity in narratives of queer progress is deployed via Rao’s rich ethnographic engagements within Uganda and India. In concomitantly re-examining discourses of queer visibility in and from the Global Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 2022
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