CfP: International Interventions and Local (In)Security - Critical Perspectives on State-Building in the Arab Region

Call for papers, deadline 26 March 2018

Call for Papers
"International Interventions and Local (In)Security: Critical Perspectives on State-Building in the Arab Region"
A project of the ACSS Working Group, the Beirut School of Critical Security Studies
Abstracts due by March 26, 2018
The Beirut School of Critical Security Studies, a Working Group of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) in Beirut, has launched the International Interventions and Local (In)Security: Critical Perspectives on State-Building in the Arab Region project as a platform for the study of intervention and state-building in the Middle East.

Led by Samer Abboud (Arcadia University), one of the coordinators of the Working Group, and Benjamin Muller (King’s University College at Western University), one of the Working Group’s affiliated scholars, the project seeks to solicit contributions that support the group’s work to foster and disseminate critical research on the study of security and insecurity in the Arab region.

This platform aims to address key questions related to the study of intervention and state-building as it manifests in the contemporary Arab world, including: What overlapping forms of intervention are occurring in the region? How do interventions generate insecurities for certain populations? What knowledge production underpins these interventions? How are populations responding to, and resisting, the multiple material, military, and humanitarian interventions that are occurring in the region? What innovations in interventions are occurring in the region?

Questions of Interest
The following is a list of suggested topics and questions of interest. Contributors should feel free to propose others and should not feel limited to this brief list.

  • Scalar responses to intervention by recipients/targets
  • Intervention as/and insecurity: how do interventions produce insecurities?
  • “Resiliency” interventions
  • Constitutionalism and the contested norms of intervention
  • Biopolitics/Neoliberalism and regime change
  • Knowledge production around intervention and state-building
  • What role does international law play in intervention?
  • In what ways do local communities engage and resist intervention practices?
  • How do the discourses and frameworks of intervention translate into local languages and spaces?
  • Who are the interveners?
  • UN mandate on Protection of Civilians and the politics of defining combatants and non-combatants
  • What innovations in intervention are occurring in the region today?

Submission Guidelines
Submissions are open to academics, practitioners, and others who offer different perspectives on intervention and its consequences in local spaces.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words can be submitted in Arabic or English. Abstracts must include the following information:

  • Research question(s)
  • Argument
  • Methodology
  • How the research fits within a critical approach to intervention and state-building

Submissions should be directed to Benjamin Muller (bmuller@uwo.ca) or Samer Abboud (samer.abboud@gmail.com) by no later than March 26, 2018.

All submissions will be reviewed and notifications will be sent out by April 2, 2018. The final accepted papers are required to be submitted by September 15, 2018.

Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion in a special issue of an academic journal, the ACSS peer-reviewed Working Papers Series, and/or the Beirut School of Critical Security Studies’ online portal, the Beirut Forum.

Important Dates
March 26, 2018: Abstracts due
April 2, 2018: Notifications dent
September 15, 2018: Final papers due

About the Beirut School of Critical Security Studies
The Beirut School of Critical Security Studies is coordinated by Professors Samer Abboud (Arcadia University) and Omar Dahi (Hampshire College). Its goal is to engage critically with existing academic and policy debates about ‘security’ and international relations of the Arab region while developing alternative approaches and understandings that focus on the concerns and experiences of scholars and societies within the region, and more broadly, the Global South.

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