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- Mikael Baaz. Full Professor in International Law; Associate Professor in Political Science; and Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studiesedit
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The productivity of the American political scientist Harold D. Lasswell (1902–1978) was legendary. He has written, co-authored, edited, and co-edited about 60 books. He has also contributed to more than 300 articles on a diverse range of... more
The productivity of the American political scientist Harold D. Lasswell (1902–1978) was legendary. He has written, co-authored, edited, and co-edited about 60 books. He has also contributed to more than 300 articles on a diverse range of subjects and has written several hundred reviews and comments to a variety of different academic journals. In total, his scholarly writing, which spanned over some five decades, resulted in no less than four million published words. Already in his 20s, Lasswell planned and carried out an “interdisciplinary” research program that emphasized the significance of culture, social structures, and personality in order to understand various political phenomena. In a discipline, at the time still dominated by historical, legal, and philosophical methods, he was an innovator, who developed various methodologies during the course of his work, qualitative as well as quantitative ones, including traditional and non-experimental methods, such as content analysis and in-depth interviews, but also different experimental and clinical methods as well as various statistical techniques.
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The Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia was the first international court to give victims a formal voice in a major atrocities trial. Victims of the Khmer Rouge atrocities committed in Cambodia from 1975-1979 are civil parties to the trial... more
The Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia was the first international court to give victims a formal voice in a major atrocities trial. Victims of the Khmer Rouge atrocities committed in Cambodia from 1975-1979 are civil parties to the trial process, participating with many of the same rights as the prosecutors and the defense. They may also request the court to order reparations. In Case 002.1, nearing completion on crimes against humanity charges against the surviving senior leaders of the regime, 3,866 victims have been admitted as civil parties.
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Two significant developments-(1) the rapidly changing world order, and (2) significant gaps in current social science scholarshipcall for a further exploration of resistance theories. In this paper, we identify some of the gaps and... more
Two significant developments-(1) the rapidly changing world order, and (2) significant gaps in current social science scholarshipcall for a further exploration of resistance theories. In this paper, we identify some of the gaps and inconsistencies within the current bulk of research, and seek to contribute to the understanding of resistance, its applications and complexity. In short, this paper discusses three interacting and supporting forms of resistance, including various overlaps and interlinkages between them, which together constitute what we would like to call the ABC of resistance; that is, avoidance resistance, breaking resistance, and constructive resistance.
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From the quotation above, which occurs quite often in scholarly literature today, several conclusions could be made. One possible conclusion is simply that resistance matters. Another one is that resistance is an ‘activity’ that is... more
From the quotation above, which occurs quite often in scholarly literature today, several conclusions could be made. One possible conclusion is simply that resistance matters. Another one is that resistance is an ‘activity’ that is performed in relation to power. To push it even further, it could be argued that power and resistance are entangled in different and intricate ways. A third conclusion that is possible to draw from the quotation, at least indirectly, is that if you are interested in understanding social change, then you have to try and understand the complex web of entanglements between power and resistance as well as, we would like to emphasize, resistance(see further Baaz et al. forthcoming). Moreover, another important dimension, which is elaborated in this editorial, and in the special issue at hand, is resistance at the crossroad of affects and emotions. Conventionally power and the study of power has been associated with and focused on, respectively, the military po...
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4 A Structural Overview of the ECCC ...................................... 305 4.1 Jurisdiction and Goals of the ECCC .................................... 307 4.2 The Organs of the ECCC ................................................ 308... more
4 A Structural Overview of the ECCC ...................................... 305 4.1 Jurisdiction and Goals of the ECCC .................................... 307 4.2 The Organs of the ECCC ................................................ 308 4.2.1 Co-Prosecutors and Co-Investigating Judges at the ECCC . 308 4.2.2 Judicial Chambers at the ECCC ................................. 309 4.2.3 Other Judicial Offices at the ECCC ............................ 309 4.3 A Summary of the Basic Judicial Process in the ECCC ............. 312 4.4 The Various National and Legal Backgrounds of the ECCC Staff 313 4.5 The ECCC’s Funding ..................................................... 314
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The overall aim of this chapter is to make an intervention in the (re)emerging discussion on middle-ground ethics (MGE). This is done by problematizing the principle of the responsibility to protect, understood as a constructive balance... more
The overall aim of this chapter is to make an intervention in the (re)emerging discussion on middle-ground ethics (MGE). This is done by problematizing the principle of the responsibility to protect, understood as a constructive balance between, on the one hand, state sovereignty (order) and, on the other hand, individual human rights (justice) or, in other worlds, between international society and world society, within a legal perspective. As Wheeler (2000: 11) has observed, “Humanitarian intervention exposes the conflict between order and justice at its starkest”. The chapter also more directly contributes to the discussion on MGE by elaborating upon how a working balance between conflicting values might be realized in practice—in this case difficult humanitarian situations within sovereign states. The United Nations (UN) sanctioned multistate intervention in Libya 2011—Operation Unified Protector—is used as an illustration to the theoretical discussion(s) as well as a test case to scrutinize the quest for legitimizing the responsibility to protect by military means. The theoretical points of departure are the English School (ES) of International Relations (IR), especially the idea of an international society, and Scandinavian legal realism (SLR), in particular the method of social welfare.
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... Sålunda kan en och samma person vara exempelvis lundensare, skåning, svensk, skandinav, europé, västerlänning och världsmedborgare såväl som son, bror, make, pappa, kristen, socialdemokrat, statsvetare och kollega, på en och samma... more
... Sålunda kan en och samma person vara exempelvis lundensare, skåning, svensk, skandinav, europé, västerlänning och världsmedborgare såväl som son, bror, make, pappa, kristen, socialdemokrat, statsvetare och kollega, på en och samma gång. ...
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Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict. By L. Gross Michael. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 321 pp., $27.99 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-521-68510-8). Michael L.... more
Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict. By L. Gross Michael. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 321 pp., $27.99 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-521-68510-8). Michael L. Gross's new book , Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict , addresses the important question of the morality (as well as legality) of war. Hence, the book is a contribution to the literature on normative theory that has re-emerged over the last two decades in International Relations (see e.g. Brown 1992). Gross's focus is asymmetric warfare, the new face of modern armed conflict (cf. Kaldor 1999). The main argument of this philosophically argumentative book is that asymmetric conflict—for example, when a nation confronts a liberation/terrorist movement or other insurgency that does not observe the laws of war and, more importantly, does not have a structure or employ tactics against which conventional military force is fully effective—is changing the way we practice but also the way we think about war. Today, torture, rendition, assassination, blackmail, extortion, direct attacks on civilians as well as biological and chemical weapons are all finding their way back to the battlefield, despite long-standing international moral condemnation as well as legal prohibition. In answering the baffling question why the United States and some of its allies today blatantly employ unlawful means of warfare and confuse the law of armed conflict (LOAC) and international humanitarian law (IHL), Gross turns to the very nature of modern armed conflict. Torture, assassination, and blackmail rarely appear in conventional war. However, faced with the phenomenon of asymmetric war, scholars and practitioners of law and philosophy are today ready to reconsider deeply held ideas about combatant rights, unnecessary suffering and noncombatant impunity, to lay a foundation for military practices being both necessary as well as, they hope, humane. To be limited in fighting the global war on terror, proxy guerrilla wars, wars of national liberation or wars of humanitarian intervention by conventional …
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Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, History, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, Political Science, and 15 moreCambodia, Social Activism, Thailand, Critical Discourse Analysis, Cultural Heritage Management, Cultural power and resistance, Construction of Meaning, Meaning Making, Resistance, Protest and resistance, Preah Vihear Temple, Repetitions, Repetition In Culture, Change Resistance, and Autenticitet
Research Interests: Sociology, Law, Gender Studies, Development Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and 15 moreLand and Property Development, Hybridity, Legal Pluralism, Cambodia, Gender and the Law, Gender and Development, Land Law, Cultural hybridity, Land Rights, Land Development, Planning in the Global South, Land Titles and Deeds, Land Titles, Global South Development, and Practice of Land Rights
An increasing body of literature focuses on negotiations of transitional justice, but not much has been written so far regarding contestations over its practices and the refusal of states and individuals to participate. Given the... more
An increasing body of literature focuses on negotiations of transitional justice, but not much has been written so far regarding contestations over its practices and the refusal of states and individuals to participate. Given the remaining legalistic dominance, this is particularly true regarding the field of international criminal law. Very little, if any, work in international criminal law engages with the topic of “resistance.” Departing from this gap in research, focusing on Cambodia and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the objective of this article is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the “strategy of rupture”—as developed by the late French lawyer Jacques Vergès—and the ways in which this legal defense has been applied in practice at the ECCC in order to resist not only the Tribunal per se, but also the entire Cambodian transitional justice process and, by extension, the post–Cold War global liberal project.
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ABSTRACTThis paper explores civil-society mobilisations around the Preah Vihear Temple, today a world heritage site located in Cambodia, on the border with Thailand. More specifically, the paper seeks to increase our understanding of the... more
ABSTRACTThis paper explores civil-society mobilisations around the Preah Vihear Temple, today a world heritage site located in Cambodia, on the border with Thailand. More specifically, the paper seeks to increase our understanding of the ‘peace-building’ resistance that is played out by different civil-society actors with regard to the Temple. This case displays how both the governments and civil societies in each of the two countries bend relationships between the ‘past’, the ‘present’, and the ‘future’ in general, and in relation to ‘identity’ in particular, in order to construct narratives of nation-building. The Temple has been used in discursive constructions of national collective identity in Cambodia and Thailand, respectively; constructions that, among other things, embrace shifting notions of time and temporality. Whereas much analysis of peace-building resistance concentrates on larger-scale actions, this paper adds to previous research by giving priority to more subtle forms of resistance and d...
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Research Interests: Cultural Heritage, Conflict, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Cambodia, Civil Society and the Public Sphere, and 15 moreArmed Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Architectural Heritage, Cambodian History, Cultural power and resistance, Civil Society, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding, Cultural Heritage and Preservation, Conflict and security, Cambodian contemporary art and visual culture, Civil Society Organizations, Conflict Studies and Human Rights, Cultural Heritage and Social Conflict, Cambodian Politics, and Civil Society and NGOs
Resistance is both a common and somewhat unusual concept. It appears often in political debates and the media. Members of various non-governmental organizations and social movements also frequently use resistance when they refer to their... more
Resistance is both a common and somewhat unusual concept. It appears often in political debates and the media. Members of various non-governmental organizations and social movements also frequently use resistance when they refer to their various activities. In spite of the significant growth regarding the use of resistance during recent years, the discussion about the meaning and content of the concept, the ways resistance activities can be understood, as well as their potential impact, et cetera, is still rather divided and underdeveloped within academia. Hence, in spite of offering a necessary addition to the earlier focus on 'power' within the social sciences, the rapidly growing field of resistance studies is still very much in its infancy. This article is an attempt to introduce some of our main ideas on researching resistance in a systematized and structured fashion. One of the main arguments put forward in the article is that what qualifies as resistance is very much dependent on context, as the aim of various resistance practices also varies very much; so, does its different articula-tions as well as the ability of various activities to challenge political, legal, economic, social and cultural structures in society—ultimately to achieve 'social change'.
Research Interests: Sociology, Power (social), Sociology of Knowledge, Social Movement, Language and Power, and 12 moreResistance (Social), Michel Foucault, Cultural power and resistance, Foucault power/knowledge - discourse, Resistance Training, Protest and resistance, Hierarchy, Resistance Studies, Knowledge/power and Knowledge/resistance, James C. Scott, Culture and Power, and Destabilization of Hierarchical Relationships and Borders
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Resistance has often been connected with anti-social attitudes, destructiveness, reactionary or revolutionary ideologies, unusual and sudden explosions of violence and emotional outbursts. This book goes beyond these conventions.... more
Resistance has often been connected with anti-social attitudes, destructiveness, reactionary or revolutionary ideologies, unusual and sudden explosions of violence and emotional outbursts. This book goes beyond these conventions. Exploring various key questions, ranging from concept definitions of affect and temporality, to complex entanglements of various social dimensions and ethical questions, this accessible guide provides a robust theoretical and methodological framework for researching of resistance and social change. By drawing connections between resistance and politics, between performance and everyday strategies, and between the juridical and its counter-strategies, this book provides students with a transdisciplinary understanding of contemporary debates in this emerging field.
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This article uses the concept of ‘time’ in order to better understand the situation of precarious migrants in Sweden. Through analysing a number of reports and interviews undertaken with newly arrived migrants in Sweden, it displays how... more
This article uses the concept of ‘time’ in order to better understand the situation of precarious migrants in Sweden. Through analysing a number of reports and interviews undertaken with newly arrived migrants in Sweden, it displays how different temporal understandings of the migrants are linked to and managed by governing bodies, laws and regulations. The article centres around two related research questions: (i) What constructions of time are used in the governing of precarious migrants? and (ii) How do these migrants understand their own and society’s time?
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The world as a whole has not been at peace since 1914, and it is definitely not at peace today. David J. Dunn argues that this state of affairs may be due, in no small part, to aspects of the conventional wisdom that informs practical... more
The world as a whole has not been at peace since 1914, and it is definitely not at peace today. David J. Dunn argues that this state of affairs may be due, in no small part, to aspects of the conventional wisdom that informs practical foreign policy and diplomacy. For example, the ancient notion si vis pacem, para bellum [if you desire peace, prepare for war] (Vegetius) or the nineteenth century idea that argues ‘[w]e have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow’ (Lord Palmerston). These ‘insights’ neatly summarize the intellectual core of political realism; in particular, the ‘balance-of-power’ doctrine.
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This article explores the meaning of “resistance” and suggests a new path for “resistance studies,” which is an emerging and interdisciplinary field of the social sciences that is still relatively fragmented and heterogeneous. Resistance... more
This article explores the meaning of “resistance” and suggests a new path for “resistance studies,” which is an emerging and interdisciplinary field of the social sciences that is still relatively fragmented and heterogeneous. Resistance has often been connected with antisocial attitudes, destructiveness, reactionary or revolutionary ideologies, unusual and sudden explosions of violence, and emotional outbursts. However, we wish to add to this conceptualization by arguing that resistance also has the potential to be productive, plural and fluid, and integrated into everyday social life. The first major part of the article is devoted to discuss existing understandings of resistance with the aim of seeking to capture distinctive features and boundaries of this social phenomenon. Among other things, we will explore resistance in relation to other key concepts and related research fields. We then, in the article’s second major part, propose a number of analytical categories and possible...
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This paper examines how Case 002/01 in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia emerges as a space within which the roles of history and international justice are contested. It focuses on how the criminal trial appear to... more
This paper examines how Case 002/01 in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia emerges as a space within which the roles of history and international justice are contested. It focuses on how the criminal trial appear to fortify the hegemony of some contested historical narrative over others in dealing with the past. The paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the 'strategy of rupture' as coined by Jacques Vergès, and the ways in which this legal defense has been applied in practice not only to resist the Tribunal in itself, but also historical knowledge-making in the Cambodian transitional justice process.