Rolf Schwarz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rolf Schwarz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rolf |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwarz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bildungspotentiale des Fußballs
Bildungspotentiale des Fußballs
Evaluation sozialkulturell motivierter Fußballprojekte
Project for a Kantian Europe
Immanuel Kant’s political treatise Perpetual Peace can be seen as a project for world peace with practical value. Applied to contemporary word politics, the United Nations is commonly seen to be the closest approximation of this project. This article argues that such a view is misguided and fails to perceive that the United Nations lacks crucial elements of a Kantian peace federation. Kant’s argumentation for perpetual peace rests on two pillars:…
Not a Curse at All
Western scholarship has often noted that oil states in the Middle East are affected by the ‘resource curse’. Thus, such states are to eventually fail due to their plundering of resources and their neglect of the social contract with their citizens. However, this is not the case, as oil states are neither failed states, nor fully democratic. They hover in a middle ground in which they assure security through coercion, but lack representation and l…
The Responsibility to Protect and the Arab World
Over the last 15 years, human rights concerns and development issues have been increasingly integrated with security matters on the international agenda. There is a growing understanding that justice, growth in welfare, and sustainable peace are goals that are deeply entwined. This new understanding of development – as encompassing human rights and security concerns to an equal extent – is reflected in the notion of the responsibility to protect.…
War and State Building in the Middle East
This book addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the authoritarian-regime governments commonly found in the Middle East, particularly among oil-rich countries. In this region, war has interacted with processes of state making in ways that fundamentally differ from the European experience. In short, unlike in Europe, wars do not make states in the Middle East; they destroy them. According to economic theory, most oil-rich countries are rentier …
States Do Not Just Fail and Collapse
The Arab Spring reinforces the argument that there is a need for a more comprehensive classification of states. The events that took place in early 2011 serve to show why certain states have developed as they have. Much of Western scholarship has failed to conceptualize this aspect of statehood and has taken Max Weber's ideal-typical state as the holder of the monopoly of violence, seen as legitimate by all its people as a given. The debates have…
Does war make states? Rentierism and the formation of states in the Middle East
The famous dictum that ‘war makes states’ has received renewed interest with the experience of state failure and state collapse in many parts of the Developing World. Historical studies have shown that the activity of war-making was an essential ingredient of the process of state-making in early modern Europe. The history of state-making in the Arab Middle East shows that rentier states defy the ‘war makes states’ theory. This article compares fo…
Nato and Prevention of State Failure
The breakdown of order and the collapse of state institutions in fragile and failed states creates situations that may pose direct security threats for foreign actors. Whether and to what degree NATO should lead international efforts to address the dangers posed by failed states, typically far out-of-area, is a major debate for alliance purpose and strategy. While the alliance has focused its energy on aspects of the problem like counterterrorism…
The political economy of state-formation in the Arab Middle East
This article argues that rentier states stand in contrast to states that have to rely on domestic resource extraction. They display a particular path to state-formation that by and large defies the European path of state-formation: natural resource dependence (mainly oil dependence) has created weak states that are autonomous from societal demands and that do not rely on domestic taxation. State-formation has not been accompanied by political acc…
Introduction
The Arab region finds itself at a historical cross-road between resilience and resistance to globalization. Arab countries' short-term strategies to globalization are primarily determined by the diversification of their respective economies. Long-term adjustments to globalization are mitigated by existing social and political structures. While Arab states might seem exceptional in many ways, they display common features that have their origins in…
Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
This article introduces a critical approach to the analysis of post-conflict peacebuilding (PCPB). It acknowledges the latter’s complex nature, questions sophisticated social engineering policies, is grounded in a historical understanding and subscribes to local ownership. The complexities, subtleties and ambiguities of historical processes of state formation across Europe and the world point towards the need for a similar sensitization in the ap…
Divisible Sovereignty and the Reconstruction of Iraq
Seeking to make sense of conflicting views regarding the continued relevance of the notion of sovereignty, this article argues that there is a discrepancy between international norms and practices. This discrepancy is rooted in conflicting understandings of the term sovereignty. By building on the link between sovereignty, the state of emergency, and the dialectic of auctoritas and potestas, this article proposes a new reading of sovereignty base…
The paradox of sovereignty, regime type and human rights compliance
Constructivism as a theory of International Relations (IR) asserts the primacy of norms over material considerations in domestic and international politics. This article criticises the constructivist approach to the field of human rights with a focus on the Arab Middle East. It points to the deficiencies of this approach in not taking state sovereignty into account as a possible limitation to international efforts in protecting human rights. Furt…
Sovereign Claims
Human rights discourse and practice as crisis management
In recent years, academic work in the field of International Relations has tended to concentrate on the impact of norms and ideas on the changing behaviour of states. Constructivism has evolved as the main challenger to rationalist theories. Constructivists emphasize that state behaviour is not primarily determined by economic or military conditions but by internationally held norms and ideas, such as human rights. According to this approach, cha…
The political economy of state-formation in the Arab Middle East
This article argues that rentier states stand in contrast to states that have to rely on domestic resource extraction. They display a particular path to state-formation that by and large defies the European path of state-formation: natural resource dependence (mainly oil dependence) has created weak states that are autonomous from societal demands and that do not rely on domestic taxation. State-formation has not been accompanied by political acc…
Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
This article introduces a critical approach to the analysis of post-conflict peacebuilding (PCPB). It acknowledges the latter’s complex nature, questions sophisticated social engineering policies, is grounded in a historical understanding and subscribes to local ownership. The complexities, subtleties and ambiguities of historical processes of state formation across Europe and the world point towards the need for a similar sensitization in the ap…
The paradox of sovereignty, regime type and human rights compliance
Constructivism as a theory of International Relations (IR) asserts the primacy of norms over material considerations in domestic and international politics. This article criticises the constructivist approach to the field of human rights with a focus on the Arab Middle East. It points to the deficiencies of this approach in not taking state sovereignty into account as a possible limitation to international efforts in protecting human rights. Furt…
Divisible Sovereignty and the Reconstruction of Iraq
Seeking to make sense of conflicting views regarding the continued relevance of the notion of sovereignty, this article argues that there is a discrepancy between international norms and practices. This discrepancy is rooted in conflicting understandings of the term sovereignty. By building on the link between sovereignty, the state of emergency, and the dialectic of auctoritas and potestas, this article proposes a new reading of sovereignty base…
The Responsibility to Protect and the Arab World
Over the last 15 years, human rights concerns and development issues have been increasingly integrated with security matters on the international agenda. There is a growing understanding that justice, growth in welfare, and sustainable peace are goals that are deeply entwined. This new understanding of development – as encompassing human rights and security concerns to an equal extent – is reflected in the notion of the responsibility to protect.…
Human rights discourse and practice as crisis management
In recent years, academic work in the field of International Relations has tended to concentrate on the impact of norms and ideas on the changing behaviour of states. Constructivism has evolved as the main challenger to rationalist theories. Constructivists emphasize that state behaviour is not primarily determined by economic or military conditions but by internationally held norms and ideas, such as human rights. According to this approach, cha…
Not a Curse at All
Western scholarship has often noted that oil states in the Middle East are affected by the ‘resource curse’. Thus, such states are to eventually fail due to their plundering of resources and their neglect of the social contract with their citizens. However, this is not the case, as oil states are neither failed states, nor fully democratic. They hover in a middle ground in which they assure security through coercion, but lack representation and l…
States Do Not Just Fail and Collapse
The Arab Spring reinforces the argument that there is a need for a more comprehensive classification of states. The events that took place in early 2011 serve to show why certain states have developed as they have. Much of Western scholarship has failed to conceptualize this aspect of statehood and has taken Max Weber's ideal-typical state as the holder of the monopoly of violence, seen as legitimate by all its people as a given. The debates have…
Does war make states? Rentierism and the formation of states in the Middle East
The famous dictum that ‘war makes states’ has received renewed interest with the experience of state failure and state collapse in many parts of the Developing World. Historical studies have shown that the activity of war-making was an essential ingredient of the process of state-making in early modern Europe. The history of state-making in the Arab Middle East shows that rentier states defy the ‘war makes states’ theory. This article compares fo…
Sovereign Claims
Human rights discourse and practice as crisis management
In recent years, academic work in the field of International Relations has tended to concentrate on the impact of norms and ideas on the changing behaviour of states. Constructivism has evolved as the main challenger to rationalist theories. Constructivists emphasize that state behaviour is not primarily determined by economic or military conditions but by internationally held norms and ideas, such as human rights. According to this approach, cha…
The paradox of sovereignty, regime type and human rights compliance
Constructivism as a theory of International Relations (IR) asserts the primacy of norms over material considerations in domestic and international politics. This article criticises the constructivist approach to the field of human rights with a focus on the Arab Middle East. It points to the deficiencies of this approach in not taking state sovereignty into account as a possible limitation to international efforts in protecting human rights. Furt…
Sovereign Claims
Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
This article introduces a critical approach to the analysis of post-conflict peacebuilding (PCPB). It acknowledges the latter’s complex nature, questions sophisticated social engineering policies, is grounded in a historical understanding and subscribes to local ownership. The complexities, subtleties and ambiguities of historical processes of state formation across Europe and the world point towards the need for a similar sensitization in the ap…
Divisible Sovereignty and the Reconstruction of Iraq
Seeking to make sense of conflicting views regarding the continued relevance of the notion of sovereignty, this article argues that there is a discrepancy between international norms and practices. This discrepancy is rooted in conflicting understandings of the term sovereignty. By building on the link between sovereignty, the state of emergency, and the dialectic of auctoritas and potestas, this article proposes a new reading of sovereignty base…
The political economy of state-formation in the Arab Middle East
This article argues that rentier states stand in contrast to states that have to rely on domestic resource extraction. They display a particular path to state-formation that by and large defies the European path of state-formation: natural resource dependence (mainly oil dependence) has created weak states that are autonomous from societal demands and that do not rely on domestic taxation. State-formation has not been accompanied by political acc…
Introduction
The Arab region finds itself at a historical cross-road between resilience and resistance to globalization. Arab countries' short-term strategies to globalization are primarily determined by the diversification of their respective economies. Long-term adjustments to globalization are mitigated by existing social and political structures. While Arab states might seem exceptional in many ways, they display common features that have their origins in…
Nato and Prevention of State Failure
The breakdown of order and the collapse of state institutions in fragile and failed states creates situations that may pose direct security threats for foreign actors. Whether and to what degree NATO should lead international efforts to address the dangers posed by failed states, typically far out-of-area, is a major debate for alliance purpose and strategy. While the alliance has focused its energy on aspects of the problem like counterterrorism…
States Do Not Just Fail and Collapse
The Arab Spring reinforces the argument that there is a need for a more comprehensive classification of states. The events that took place in early 2011 serve to show why certain states have developed as they have. Much of Western scholarship has failed to conceptualize this aspect of statehood and has taken Max Weber's ideal-typical state as the holder of the monopoly of violence, seen as legitimate by all its people as a given. The debates have…
Does war make states? Rentierism and the formation of states in the Middle East
The famous dictum that ‘war makes states’ has received renewed interest with the experience of state failure and state collapse in many parts of the Developing World. Historical studies have shown that the activity of war-making was an essential ingredient of the process of state-making in early modern Europe. The history of state-making in the Arab Middle East shows that rentier states defy the ‘war makes states’ theory. This article compares fo…
War and State Building in the Middle East
This book addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the authoritarian-regime governments commonly found in the Middle East, particularly among oil-rich countries. In this region, war has interacted with processes of state making in ways that fundamentally differ from the European experience. In short, unlike in Europe, wars do not make states in the Middle East; they destroy them. According to economic theory, most oil-rich countries are rentier …
Not a Curse at All
Western scholarship has often noted that oil states in the Middle East are affected by the ‘resource curse’. Thus, such states are to eventually fail due to their plundering of resources and their neglect of the social contract with their citizens. However, this is not the case, as oil states are neither failed states, nor fully democratic. They hover in a middle ground in which they assure security through coercion, but lack representation and l…
The Responsibility to Protect and the Arab World
Over the last 15 years, human rights concerns and development issues have been increasingly integrated with security matters on the international agenda. There is a growing understanding that justice, growth in welfare, and sustainable peace are goals that are deeply entwined. This new understanding of development – as encompassing human rights and security concerns to an equal extent – is reflected in the notion of the responsibility to protect.…
Project for a Kantian Europe
Immanuel Kant’s political treatise Perpetual Peace can be seen as a project for world peace with practical value. Applied to contemporary word politics, the United Nations is commonly seen to be the closest approximation of this project. This article argues that such a view is misguided and fails to perceive that the United Nations lacks crucial elements of a Kantian peace federation. Kant’s argumentation for perpetual peace rests on two pillars:…
Bildungspotentiale des Fußballs
Bildungspotentiale des Fußballs
Evaluation sozialkulturell motivierter Fußballprojekte
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