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1. "Something for everyone" : ownership as a moving target in Swedish and British regional foreign aid to Africa
Söderbaum, Fredrik; Stapel, Sören; Wennergren, Sally;2023
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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2. Sovereignty and regionalism : a new framework
Spandler, Kilian; Söderbaum, Fredrik;2023
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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Link 3. Rethinking the Politics of Transboundary Water Management : The Case of the Zambezi River Basin
abstractThis article challenges the prevailing ‘problem-solving' discourse around transboundary water management, according to which river basins are largely taken as a ‘given' ecological spaces and where the main challenge is to find environmentally sustainable ‘solutions' to a number of specific ‘problems' through rational, functional-technocratic or even scientific policies and institutions. Without rejecting the normative attractiveness of ecologically sustainable and basin-wide approaches, this article pays particular attention to the continued relevance of politics, power and national sovereignty. Such political perspective gives rise to a number of general but often overlooked policy issues, two of which are focused upon in this article. The first is the challenge to reconcile national benefits and interests with the common good and basin-wide approaches. The second is related to whether transboundary waters are best governed through specialized and functional river basin organizations (RBOs) or through more multipurpose regional organizations that have a more distinct political leverage?
Söderbaum, Fredrik;2015
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4. Introduction — The End of the Development-Security Nexus?
abstractThis article introduces Development Dialogue 58, which departs from the fact that thinking and policy on 'development' and 'security' have undergone paradigmatic shifts in recent decades. The well-known merger of development and security into a 'development-security nexus' is now shifting towards an increasingly institutionalized securitization. Security is everywhere, and development is security. A new discourse and practice is arising as the meaning of these concepts shift and the referents and objects of development and security are changing. Gradually we are moving beyond the development-security nexus into the reign of continuous global disaster management. These new articulations of the development-security nexus and global disaster management have served to legitimize a more radical interventionist agenda – first and foremost carried out by the West in the Global South. With thought-provoking contributions by leading authorities in this burgeoning field, this volume makes sense of the aforementioned paradigmatic shift. The articles in this issue explore the rationale and forces behind the institutionalization of interventionism and intrusive disaster management as well as the consequences thereof in a number of policy domains and cases
Sörensen, Jens; Söderbaum, Fredrik;2014
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5. Reading the Intellectual History of Regionalism
abstractRegionalism is a collection that has been created to capture and organize 60 years of research and policy discourse on regional integration and regionalism since the 1940s until today. The ambition of the collection is to contribute to the consolidation of a fragmented field of study, which is characterized by a lack of dialogue among academic disciplines, area specializations, as well as theoretical traditions and approaches. Progress in the field requires a better understanding of the intellectual roots of the field; it also requires that academics engage increasingly with other texts and theorists across time periods, discourses and disciplines, which is rather rare in the current debate.This set of volumes provides the academic community of scholars with a collection of seminal articles that have contributed to shaping the thinking about regional integration, regionalism and regionalization during the past six decades. The four volumes are structured chronologically, reflecting the evolution of the subject. This organization shows historical dynamisms, the various lines of influence, cross-fertilization and descendence:Volume One: 1945-1970 Classical Regional IntegrationVolume Two: 1970-1990 Revisions of Classical Regional IntegrationVolume Three: 1990-2000 New RegionalismVolume Four: 2000-2010 Comparative RegionalismThe collection includes three Nobel prize winners — Jan Tinbergen, Robert Mundell and Paul Krugman — next to pioneers such as Ernst Haas, Karl Deutsch, Joseph Nye, Raul Prebisch, Bela Balassa and more recent leading theorists such as Amitav Acharya, Jagdish Bhagwati, Björn Hettne, Peter Katzenstein, Andrew Moravcsik, Walter Mattli, and Iver Neumann.This Introduction gives an overview of the field and situates the four volumes in broader context. It elaborates some of the key issues shaping the development of the field and which have been essential for the selection of articles to the four volumes. We have concentrated on three key issues central to the intellectual history of the field: (i) the ontology of regionalism and regional integration; (ii) the role of European integration theory/practice and comparison; and (iii) the role of theory
De Lombaerde, Philippe; Söderbaum, Fredrik;2014
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6. What's Wrong with Regional Integration? The Problem of Eurocentrism
abstractThis working paper deals with one of the most pressing problems in the study and policy of regional integration: the problem of ‘Eurocentrism’, which in this context implies that assumptions and theories developed for the study of Europe crowd-out both more universally applicable frameworks and contextual understandings. In their frustrated attempts to avoid Eurocentrism, some scholars dealing with non-European regions tend to treat the Europe as an ‘anti-model’ — a practice which often results in a different form of parochialism where context is all that matters. The general ambition of this paper is to contribute to rethinking Eurocentrism and the role of Europe in comparative regional integration. More specifically, the study shows how Eurocentrism (in various guises) is detrimental to theoretical development, empirical analysis and policy debates, claiming instead that European integration should be integrated into a larger and more general discourse of comparative regionalism, built around general concepts and theories, but which is still culturally sensitive
Söderbaum, Fredrik;2014
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7. Towards Global Social Theory
abstractOur purpose is to take stock of some current trends in the rethinking of development theory, but above all to transcend the development discourse and move towards a comprehensive social science theory, here called ‘global social theory’, meaning a unified historical and critical social science that moves beyond the pitfalls of state-centrism and an obsession with ‘national development’. In a turbulent and ‘globalised’ world, the nation-state no longer constitutes the dominant framework for understanding society, and social processes must be analysed delinked from national space. It is argued that certain strands of international political economy (IPE) theory and certain strands of development theory, in conjunction with a new emphasis on cultural studies as well as the new development-related conflicts, together constitute possible building blocks of a reconstruction of development theory, as a step towards global social theory
Hettne, Björn; Söderbaum, Fredrik;2014
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8. Civilian Power or Soft Imperialism? EU as a Global Actor and the Role of Interregionalism
abstractThis article provides an analytical framework for understanding the EU’s foreign policy relations (FPRs), namely enlargement (towards new candidates), stabilization (towards the neighbourhood), bilateralism (towards great powers) and interregionalism (towards more far away regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America), but with a particular focus on interregional relations, taken to be the most typically European form of external relations. The various policy forms differ over time between FPRs, due to a number of factors, such as relative levels of EU actorness, relative power relations, the combinations of norms and interests, the different policies pursued by different EU members and institutions, the nature of the issue, and external challenges. The purpose is to examine the specific nature of interregionalism in the context of the overall EU-driven external policy and what implications the EU model could have for global governance. This external policy has been characterized in sharply contrasting ways, from a distinctly European normativism to traditional national interest policies hidden behind rhetoric. A distinction is here made between idealist ‘civilian power’ and realist ‘soft imperialism’, and the relevance of these two models is analyzed in the EU’s main FPRs. The difference between civilian power and soft imperialism lies in the overall importance of values and norms, and also whether negotiations are carried out in a symmetric, dialogical way rather than by imposition
Hettne, Björn; Söderbaum, Fredrik;2014
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9. Modes of Regional Governance in Africa : Neoliberalism, Sovereignty-Boosting and Shadow Networks
abstractThis article transcends the limitations in the debate on governance by bringing in: (1) the “regional” dimension in contrast to the current emphasis on either “global governance” or “good governance” at the national level; and (2) considering informal and private aspects of governance as opposed to the excessive focus on formal and public modes of governance. Following on from this, the purpose of this article is to identify and critically assess three particular modes of regional governance in current Africa: (i) neoliberal regional governance; (ii) sovereignty-boosting governance; and (iii) regional shadow governance. The analysis explains the origins, the main actors, and the purposes of these three varieties of regional governance. The paper also considers the relationships among the three forms of governance as well as their longterm viability
Söderbaum, Fredrik;2014
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10. What's Wrong with Regional Integration? The Problem of Eurocentrism
Söderbaum, Fredrik;2013
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