This policy paper uses the Eightfold Path method developed by Bardach and Patashnik to study the ... more This policy paper uses the Eightfold Path method developed by Bardach and Patashnik to study the problem that is the lack of Maghrebian trans‐boundary cooperation on the environment. It argues that political conflict has been allowed to obstruct a field that should remain nonpolitical. The paper concludes with policy recommendations intended to generate debate among decision makers and lead to more effective water management policies.
This forum explores how societal contexts affect how instructors teach introductory undergraduate... more This forum explores how societal contexts affect how instructors teach introductory undergraduate courses in international relations (IR), global politics, and international studies. Contributors teach at universities in China, Ecuador, India, Morocco, South Africa, the United Kingdom–Scotland, and the United States. Because instructors vary the structure, content, and pedagogical approaches in their courses (and perhaps most in their introductory courses) to account for their students’ backgrounds, conditions, and paradigms, the discipline can learn about contemporary global patterns by putting regionally diverse pedagogical approaches in conversation with each other. A concluding essay explores emergent patterns of a global IR and sets up points for further conversation. The authors hope sharing their pedagogical strategies will inspire instructors to devote the creativity necessary to improve how they teach introductory IR courses in their own societal contexts.
... International Republican Institute and its Moroccan partner Daba 2007 (Now 2007), an NGO led ... more ... International Republican Institute and its Moroccan partner Daba 2007 (Now 2007), an NGO led by an advertising executive, Nour AlóDin Ayouch. ... Other countries like Egypt have had almost wholly negative experience with the redistribution of wealth in the absence of a liberal ...
... 8. Mountasir Hamada, On the Political Performance of Islamist Moroccans, Morocco at the Cro... more ... 8. Mountasir Hamada, On the Political Performance of Islamist Moroccans, Morocco at the Crossroads, 2004-2005 (Rabat, Morocco: Wajhat Nazr Press ... Led by Abdessalam Yassine and his daughter Nadia, the movement is quasi-republican, and the events of 16 May 2003 ...
This edited volume is useful for scholars interested in critical approaches to terrorism and secu... more This edited volume is useful for scholars interested in critical approaches to terrorism and security. Written in accessible language, it addresses political and social processes in Asia through fo...
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2012
jockeying resulted in the continuation of the clandestine slave trade, which signified a form of ... more jockeying resulted in the continuation of the clandestine slave trade, which signified a form of violence that was quotidian, even banal. Highlighting the fact that violence can be inscribed in a status quo and does not require a premeditated logic, Brower treats slavery as a form of violence that was normalized by social, economic, and political conventions. An even more insidious form of violence emerges in the fourth and final section of the book, which examines the romantic aesthetic that underpinned the dreams of destruction and conquest in the Sahara. The “Blue Legend,” for example, popularized the French vision of the Tuarag as noble savages of the desert. In charting the relationship between aesthetics and politics, Brower also discusses the subjectivity of the French Saharan explorers who wrote accounts that were a hybrid between official reporting and romantic travelogues. He notes, “Saharan explorers rarely probed their worries, fears, or moments of doubt, instead choosing to describe them in fetishistic ways, which denied expressions of weakness or insecurity” (p. 219). Yet, the extent to which aesthetic sensibilities and psychological blockages explain a form of violence remains up for debate. Indeed, while Brower’s expansive notion of violence speaks to multiple phenomena, one might ask at what point violence becomes indistinguishable from coercion, power, and even authority. It is clear that to equate colonial violence with a blanket European “modernity” is futile, and as Brower forcefully claims, “there is no direct path leading from Algeria to Auschwitz, as some have suggested” (p. 24). Instead, the conception and implementation of various forms of violence was a much more contingent and unruly process. Algeria might have provided a laboratory or space of exception for certain colonial officials, but the political, economic, and pragmatic limitations weighed heavily on decision making at every turn. Moreover, the emphasis on the “violent aesthetics of the sublime in the Sahara” (p. 199) sits uneasily with Brower’s earlier claim that “violence consists not of concepts and theories but practices” (p. 131). A tension between regimes of truth and practices of domination runs throughout the manuscript, and while Brower insists that the “violence of power . . . helped colonialism produce itself with a specific episteme” (p. 18), he also claims that “this process displays little Foucauldian sophistication” (p. 17) because French colonial power “saw itself more as a purveyor of death than a regulator of life” (p. 18). Analyzing physical and conceptual violence in a single frame is one of the major achievements of this work, making it an important redress to studies of knowledge and power that frequently overlook the material aspects of colonial rule. Yet a more sustained reflection on the relationship among the various forms of violence that were inflicted on the Sahara would be welcomed. Nevertheless, the book is a remarkable work that will be vital to scholars working not only on the history of Algeria but also on French empire and the genealogy of colonial violence.
This policy paper uses the Eightfold Path method developed by Bardach and Patashnik to study the ... more This policy paper uses the Eightfold Path method developed by Bardach and Patashnik to study the problem that is the lack of Maghrebian trans‐boundary cooperation on the environment. It argues that political conflict has been allowed to obstruct a field that should remain nonpolitical. The paper concludes with policy recommendations intended to generate debate among decision makers and lead to more effective water management policies.
This forum explores how societal contexts affect how instructors teach introductory undergraduate... more This forum explores how societal contexts affect how instructors teach introductory undergraduate courses in international relations (IR), global politics, and international studies. Contributors teach at universities in China, Ecuador, India, Morocco, South Africa, the United Kingdom–Scotland, and the United States. Because instructors vary the structure, content, and pedagogical approaches in their courses (and perhaps most in their introductory courses) to account for their students’ backgrounds, conditions, and paradigms, the discipline can learn about contemporary global patterns by putting regionally diverse pedagogical approaches in conversation with each other. A concluding essay explores emergent patterns of a global IR and sets up points for further conversation. The authors hope sharing their pedagogical strategies will inspire instructors to devote the creativity necessary to improve how they teach introductory IR courses in their own societal contexts.
... International Republican Institute and its Moroccan partner Daba 2007 (Now 2007), an NGO led ... more ... International Republican Institute and its Moroccan partner Daba 2007 (Now 2007), an NGO led by an advertising executive, Nour AlóDin Ayouch. ... Other countries like Egypt have had almost wholly negative experience with the redistribution of wealth in the absence of a liberal ...
... 8. Mountasir Hamada, On the Political Performance of Islamist Moroccans, Morocco at the Cro... more ... 8. Mountasir Hamada, On the Political Performance of Islamist Moroccans, Morocco at the Crossroads, 2004-2005 (Rabat, Morocco: Wajhat Nazr Press ... Led by Abdessalam Yassine and his daughter Nadia, the movement is quasi-republican, and the events of 16 May 2003 ...
This edited volume is useful for scholars interested in critical approaches to terrorism and secu... more This edited volume is useful for scholars interested in critical approaches to terrorism and security. Written in accessible language, it addresses political and social processes in Asia through fo...
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2012
jockeying resulted in the continuation of the clandestine slave trade, which signified a form of ... more jockeying resulted in the continuation of the clandestine slave trade, which signified a form of violence that was quotidian, even banal. Highlighting the fact that violence can be inscribed in a status quo and does not require a premeditated logic, Brower treats slavery as a form of violence that was normalized by social, economic, and political conventions. An even more insidious form of violence emerges in the fourth and final section of the book, which examines the romantic aesthetic that underpinned the dreams of destruction and conquest in the Sahara. The “Blue Legend,” for example, popularized the French vision of the Tuarag as noble savages of the desert. In charting the relationship between aesthetics and politics, Brower also discusses the subjectivity of the French Saharan explorers who wrote accounts that were a hybrid between official reporting and romantic travelogues. He notes, “Saharan explorers rarely probed their worries, fears, or moments of doubt, instead choosing to describe them in fetishistic ways, which denied expressions of weakness or insecurity” (p. 219). Yet, the extent to which aesthetic sensibilities and psychological blockages explain a form of violence remains up for debate. Indeed, while Brower’s expansive notion of violence speaks to multiple phenomena, one might ask at what point violence becomes indistinguishable from coercion, power, and even authority. It is clear that to equate colonial violence with a blanket European “modernity” is futile, and as Brower forcefully claims, “there is no direct path leading from Algeria to Auschwitz, as some have suggested” (p. 24). Instead, the conception and implementation of various forms of violence was a much more contingent and unruly process. Algeria might have provided a laboratory or space of exception for certain colonial officials, but the political, economic, and pragmatic limitations weighed heavily on decision making at every turn. Moreover, the emphasis on the “violent aesthetics of the sublime in the Sahara” (p. 199) sits uneasily with Brower’s earlier claim that “violence consists not of concepts and theories but practices” (p. 131). A tension between regimes of truth and practices of domination runs throughout the manuscript, and while Brower insists that the “violence of power . . . helped colonialism produce itself with a specific episteme” (p. 18), he also claims that “this process displays little Foucauldian sophistication” (p. 17) because French colonial power “saw itself more as a purveyor of death than a regulator of life” (p. 18). Analyzing physical and conceptual violence in a single frame is one of the major achievements of this work, making it an important redress to studies of knowledge and power that frequently overlook the material aspects of colonial rule. Yet a more sustained reflection on the relationship among the various forms of violence that were inflicted on the Sahara would be welcomed. Nevertheless, the book is a remarkable work that will be vital to scholars working not only on the history of Algeria but also on French empire and the genealogy of colonial violence.
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