J H S Lie
Biographic Data
| ID | 12616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J H S Lie |
| GIVEN NAMES | J H S |
| FAMILY NAME | Lie |
| SIGNATURE | LIE J H S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian Institute of International Affairs |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0778-1386 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Localization and developmentality: Policy pragmatism in pandemic times
Public–Private Development Cooperation: Interface and Conflicting Logics in the Formation of a Strategic Partnership
Public–private development partnership constitutes the core of a deepening normative agenda that places private actors as active development agents and as means through which other development objectives are pursued in partnership with publicly funded aid actors. This normative agenda may challenge international development. This article goes beyond the official policy level to explore the formation of public– private development cooperation in p…
Bottom-up development as framed freedom: Developmentality and donor power
International development assistance is founded on and reproduces a set of conceptual and structural binaries. Development actors themselves have attempted to alter lopsided aid relations, as illustrated by the prominent policy agendas of ownership and localisation in the 2010s. These are both expressions of bottom-up approaches to international aid, which challenge the very hierarchical nature of development as a particular Western instrument an…
In the name of development? The moral economy of a private sector–NGO partnership in Ethiopia
Private actors have, over the past decade, entered the field of development operating in new forms of partnerships with established aid actors. Private actors now constitute a central means and objective of publicly funded development aid, causing a growth in actors operating in the name of development but without being compelled to follow established development discourses or principles. This article explores the formation of one such ‘strategic…
The humanitarian-development nexus: Humanitarian principles, practice, and pragmatics
The humanitarian–development nexus is increasingly being cast as the solution to humanitarian concerns, new and protracted crises, and to manage complex war-to-peace transitions. Despite widely endorsed amongst policymakers, this nexus presents some challenges to those implementing it. Humanitarian action and development assistance represent two distinct discursive and institutional segments of the international system that are hard to juxtapose.…
Performing compliance with development indicators: Brokerage and transnational governance in aid partnerships
Drawing on a semi‐autoethnography of a development project in northern Ethiopia, this article engages the role and power of indicators in the development sector. It both demonstrates and questions the power usually ascribed indicators when seen as an authoritative bureaucratic tool, while also showing how actors – and I was one of them – at various levels of the aid chain merely perform compliance with the indicators as a way to manage new and ex…
Local Ownership as Global Governance
Kinship in International Relations
Utviklingspolitikk uten utviklingsminister
Som utenriksminister fikk Børge Brende også ansvaret for utviklingspolitikken, og således havnet han i et krysspress mellom to delvis motstridende politikkfelt. Der utenriksdepartementet har fremme av norske interesser som sin hovedoppgave, så har utviklingspolitikken tradisjonelt hatt som mål å fremme andres behov gjennom fattigdomsbekjempelse. Denne dobbeltrollen preget både utviklingspolitikken og Brendes forvaltning av den. Utviklingspolitikk…
From humanitarian action to development aid in northern Uganda and the formation of a humanitarian-development nexus
The instituted order of humanitarianism is both changing and challenged. This article addresses the transition between humanitarian action and development aid in northern Uganda, which was driven by the government’s ambition to reassert its humanitarian sovereignty by discursively recasting the situation from one of crisis to one of recovery and development, regardless of the persistent humanitarian needs. In response, humanitarian actors either …
Developmentality: Indirect governance in the World Bank–Uganda partnership
The instituted order of development is changing, creating new power mechanisms ordering the relationship between donor and recipient institutions. Donors’ focus on partnership, participation and ownership has radically transformed the orchestration of aid. While the formal order of this new aid architecture aimed to alter inherently asymmetrical donor–recipient relations by installing the recipient side with greater freedom and responsibility, th…
The limits of global authority: World Bank benchmarks in Ethiopia and Malawi
Global benchmarks (re)shape political conversations and institutionalise authoritative languages. It does not necessarily follow, however, that benchmarks can exert a lasting or significant influence over policies and behaviour of benchmarked actors. We analyse how the World Bank uses benchmarks to manage its relations with both donors and recipient governments. We analyse the role of the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (…
The Knowledge Battlefield of Protection
Drawing on fieldwork from different operational levels of UNMIS, this article moves beyond the formal renderings of the protection of civilians. It explores protection as a discursive battlefield of knowledge in which different actors vie over its meaning and moral affiliation. There exists no unambiguous definition of what protection means and entails in practice. Rather, the protection discourse is interpreted contextually drawing on involved a…
Utfordrer antropologiske utfordringer antropologien? – Om å studere oppover
Challenging Anthropology: Anthropological Reflections on the Ethnographic Turn in International Relations
Ethnography and anthropology are intrinsically linked, but recently other disciplines have started to draw inspiration from anthropological methods. The ongoing ethnographic turn in International Relations has spurred debate on what ethnography is, what it means and entails in practice, and how to apply it in International Relations. Some assert that the ethnographic turn could not have taken place without adopting a selective and antiquated noti…
Beskyttelse av sivile (PoC) og Ansvar for å beskytte (R2P): Konseptuelle og historiske betraktninger
Post-Development Theory and the Discourse-Agency Conundrum
Through its post-structural critique of development, post-development provides a fundamental dismissal of institutional development. Drawing on the work of Foucault, post-development portrays development as a monolithic and hegemonic discourse that constructs rather than solves the problems it purports to address. Yet post-development itself becomes guilty of creating an analysis that loses sight of individuals and agency, being fundamental to it…
Antropologi og studiet av nasjonale interesser
An Ethnography of ‘Participation’ as Governance
This article reviews two recent books that both address the relationship between policy and practice internal to the aid apparatus. Both volumes aspire towards an ethnographic approach to the development apparatus, and give particular attention to the policy-practice nexus of development in relation to the embraced idioms of participation and ownership. Cultivating Development provides a strong ethnographic account of these issues with regard to …
Bokspalte
Challenging Anthropology: Anthropological Reflections on the Ethnographic Turn in International Relations
Ethnography and anthropology are intrinsically linked, but recently other disciplines have started to draw inspiration from anthropological methods. The ongoing ethnographic turn in International Relations has spurred debate on what ethnography is, what it means and entails in practice, and how to apply it in International Relations. Some assert that the ethnographic turn could not have taken place without adopting a selective and antiquated noti…
The limits of global authority: World Bank benchmarks in Ethiopia and Malawi
Global benchmarks (re)shape political conversations and institutionalise authoritative languages. It does not necessarily follow, however, that benchmarks can exert a lasting or significant influence over policies and behaviour of benchmarked actors. We analyse how the World Bank uses benchmarks to manage its relations with both donors and recipient governments. We analyse the role of the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (…
From humanitarian action to development aid in northern Uganda and the formation of a humanitarian-development nexus
The instituted order of humanitarianism is both changing and challenged. This article addresses the transition between humanitarian action and development aid in northern Uganda, which was driven by the government’s ambition to reassert its humanitarian sovereignty by discursively recasting the situation from one of crisis to one of recovery and development, regardless of the persistent humanitarian needs. In response, humanitarian actors either …
Developmentality: Indirect governance in the World Bank–Uganda partnership
The instituted order of development is changing, creating new power mechanisms ordering the relationship between donor and recipient institutions. Donors’ focus on partnership, participation and ownership has radically transformed the orchestration of aid. While the formal order of this new aid architecture aimed to alter inherently asymmetrical donor–recipient relations by installing the recipient side with greater freedom and responsibility, th…
Local Ownership as Global Governance
The Knowledge Battlefield of Protection
Drawing on fieldwork from different operational levels of UNMIS, this article moves beyond the formal renderings of the protection of civilians. It explores protection as a discursive battlefield of knowledge in which different actors vie over its meaning and moral affiliation. There exists no unambiguous definition of what protection means and entails in practice. Rather, the protection discourse is interpreted contextually drawing on involved a…
Bottom-up development as framed freedom: Developmentality and donor power
International development assistance is founded on and reproduces a set of conceptual and structural binaries. Development actors themselves have attempted to alter lopsided aid relations, as illustrated by the prominent policy agendas of ownership and localisation in the 2010s. These are both expressions of bottom-up approaches to international aid, which challenge the very hierarchical nature of development as a particular Western instrument an…
In the name of development? The moral economy of a private sector–NGO partnership in Ethiopia
Private actors have, over the past decade, entered the field of development operating in new forms of partnerships with established aid actors. Private actors now constitute a central means and objective of publicly funded development aid, causing a growth in actors operating in the name of development but without being compelled to follow established development discourses or principles. This article explores the formation of one such ‘strategic…
Utfordrer antropologiske utfordringer antropologien? – Om å studere oppover
Bokspalte
An Ethnography of ‘Participation’ as Governance
This article reviews two recent books that both address the relationship between policy and practice internal to the aid apparatus. Both volumes aspire towards an ethnographic approach to the development apparatus, and give particular attention to the policy-practice nexus of development in relation to the embraced idioms of participation and ownership. Cultivating Development provides a strong ethnographic account of these issues with regard to …
Antropologi og studiet av nasjonale interesser
Post-Development Theory and the Discourse-Agency Conundrum
Through its post-structural critique of development, post-development provides a fundamental dismissal of institutional development. Drawing on the work of Foucault, post-development portrays development as a monolithic and hegemonic discourse that constructs rather than solves the problems it purports to address. Yet post-development itself becomes guilty of creating an analysis that loses sight of individuals and agency, being fundamental to it…
Beskyttelse av sivile (PoC) og Ansvar for å beskytte (R2P): Konseptuelle og historiske betraktninger
The Knowledge Battlefield of Protection
Drawing on fieldwork from different operational levels of UNMIS, this article moves beyond the formal renderings of the protection of civilians. It explores protection as a discursive battlefield of knowledge in which different actors vie over its meaning and moral affiliation. There exists no unambiguous definition of what protection means and entails in practice. Rather, the protection discourse is interpreted contextually drawing on involved a…
Utfordrer antropologiske utfordringer antropologien? – Om å studere oppover
Challenging Anthropology: Anthropological Reflections on the Ethnographic Turn in International Relations
Ethnography and anthropology are intrinsically linked, but recently other disciplines have started to draw inspiration from anthropological methods. The ongoing ethnographic turn in International Relations has spurred debate on what ethnography is, what it means and entails in practice, and how to apply it in International Relations. Some assert that the ethnographic turn could not have taken place without adopting a selective and antiquated noti…
Developmentality: Indirect governance in the World Bank–Uganda partnership
The instituted order of development is changing, creating new power mechanisms ordering the relationship between donor and recipient institutions. Donors’ focus on partnership, participation and ownership has radically transformed the orchestration of aid. While the formal order of this new aid architecture aimed to alter inherently asymmetrical donor–recipient relations by installing the recipient side with greater freedom and responsibility, th…
The limits of global authority: World Bank benchmarks in Ethiopia and Malawi
Global benchmarks (re)shape political conversations and institutionalise authoritative languages. It does not necessarily follow, however, that benchmarks can exert a lasting or significant influence over policies and behaviour of benchmarked actors. We analyse how the World Bank uses benchmarks to manage its relations with both donors and recipient governments. We analyse the role of the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (…
From humanitarian action to development aid in northern Uganda and the formation of a humanitarian-development nexus
The instituted order of humanitarianism is both changing and challenged. This article addresses the transition between humanitarian action and development aid in northern Uganda, which was driven by the government’s ambition to reassert its humanitarian sovereignty by discursively recasting the situation from one of crisis to one of recovery and development, regardless of the persistent humanitarian needs. In response, humanitarian actors either …
Kinship in International Relations
Utviklingspolitikk uten utviklingsminister
Som utenriksminister fikk Børge Brende også ansvaret for utviklingspolitikken, og således havnet han i et krysspress mellom to delvis motstridende politikkfelt. Der utenriksdepartementet har fremme av norske interesser som sin hovedoppgave, så har utviklingspolitikken tradisjonelt hatt som mål å fremme andres behov gjennom fattigdomsbekjempelse. Denne dobbeltrollen preget både utviklingspolitikken og Brendes forvaltning av den. Utviklingspolitikk…
Local Ownership as Global Governance
The humanitarian-development nexus: Humanitarian principles, practice, and pragmatics
The humanitarian–development nexus is increasingly being cast as the solution to humanitarian concerns, new and protracted crises, and to manage complex war-to-peace transitions. Despite widely endorsed amongst policymakers, this nexus presents some challenges to those implementing it. Humanitarian action and development assistance represent two distinct discursive and institutional segments of the international system that are hard to juxtapose.…
Performing compliance with development indicators: Brokerage and transnational governance in aid partnerships
Drawing on a semi‐autoethnography of a development project in northern Ethiopia, this article engages the role and power of indicators in the development sector. It both demonstrates and questions the power usually ascribed indicators when seen as an authoritative bureaucratic tool, while also showing how actors – and I was one of them – at various levels of the aid chain merely perform compliance with the indicators as a way to manage new and ex…
In the name of development? The moral economy of a private sector–NGO partnership in Ethiopia
Private actors have, over the past decade, entered the field of development operating in new forms of partnerships with established aid actors. Private actors now constitute a central means and objective of publicly funded development aid, causing a growth in actors operating in the name of development but without being compelled to follow established development discourses or principles. This article explores the formation of one such ‘strategic…
Localization and developmentality: Policy pragmatism in pandemic times
Public–Private Development Cooperation: Interface and Conflicting Logics in the Formation of a Strategic Partnership
Public–private development partnership constitutes the core of a deepening normative agenda that places private actors as active development agents and as means through which other development objectives are pursued in partnership with publicly funded aid actors. This normative agenda may challenge international development. This article goes beyond the official policy level to explore the formation of public– private development cooperation in p…
Bottom-up development as framed freedom: Developmentality and donor power
International development assistance is founded on and reproduces a set of conceptual and structural binaries. Development actors themselves have attempted to alter lopsided aid relations, as illustrated by the prominent policy agendas of ownership and localisation in the 2010s. These are both expressions of bottom-up approaches to international aid, which challenge the very hierarchical nature of development as a particular Western instrument an…
Political science (15 works) · International Development and Aid (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (6 works) · Corporate governance (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works)