David Styan
Biographic Data
| ID | 138692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Styan |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Styan |
| SIGNATURE | STYAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
China’s Maritime Silk Road and Small States
This article sheds light on the factors shaping China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) in small states through a study of Djibouti and the MSRI. It also analyses the establishment of China’s first overseas military base and thus evaluates the military-security implications of Chinese MSRI ports. Among other things, it shows that we need to conceive the locational value of MSRI participants more richly, that the existence of an authoritarian…
All at Sea? Maritime Dimensions of Europe’s Relations with Africa
The article examines three dimensions of Europe’s maritime relations with Africa: first, the notion that Europe’s strategic maritime frontiers are linked to Africa; second, the coherence or ‘actorness’ of the European Union’s (EU) anti-piracy force operating off the Horn of Africa; and third, the relationship between the EU’s own military and naval objectives and its wider regional policies in Africa. While the EU adopted a ‘Maritime Security Str…
Djibouti
Geography and politics indicate Djibouti would be a particularly weak and ineffectual ‘small state’. Located on a bridgehead between the poorest parts of Africa and Arabia, it is continental Africa’s smallest state by population and is devoid of natural resources. The text demonstrates that Djibouti has been able to transform weakness and liabilities stemming from its geo-strategic location, sandwiched between large neighbours and key maritime sh…
EU power and armed humanitarianism in Africa
This article analyses the European Union's (EU's) largest European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) military mission outside Europe to date; Eufor Tchad/RCA was a 3700-strong force involving personnel from 23 states, deployed to Chad and the Central African Republic for 12 months from March 2008. Far from this mission achieving EU ‘supremacy’ or projecting an ‘imperial’ reach, an evaluation of its objectives and achievements reveals acute limit…
Fred Halliday
Numerous are the legacies bequeathed by the life and work of Fred Halliday. His words, broadcast and published in half a dozen languages, had a greater impact on the understanding of international issues than most public intellectuals of his generation. The breadth of his influence can be partially gleaned from the formal obituaries, testimonies, commentaries and initial academic analyses — as well as several posthumous works of his own — which h…
Introduction
La Nouvelle Vague?
The security of Africans beyond borders
This article provides an overview of selected aspects of how the economic security of growing numbers of Africans is linked to international migration. It first examines the emergence since 2005 of a new international policy discourse emphasizing the positive economic benefits of migration through remittance flows, the transfer of ideas and inward investment by migrants. The article outlines European policy responses to the recent upsurge in ille…
France & Iraq
France’s opposition to the Iraq war in 2003 was greeted with surprise and outrage by Anglo-American politicians. But as David Styan argues in his penetrating new book, Chirac’s stance was consistent with a decades-long reorientation of French foreign policy. Styan dissects the processes by which a country notorious for its suppression of Algerian independence came to cast itself as the anti-imperialist champion of the Arab world. Styan charts Fra…
Jacques Chirac's ‘ non ’
This article narrates selected aspects of the background to France's threatened use of its UN Security Council veto in March 2003. The article suggests that, although far from inevitable, Chirac's ‘non’ of 10 March arose from a policy framework established by September 2002. Decision‐making therefore had a coherence and continuity largely ignored in English‐language reporting of French diplomacy in the run up to war. This framework was informed b…
Migration and Development
Chroniques de la guerre érythréo-éthiopienne
La guerre entre l'Éthiopie et l'Érythrée, qui a débuté en mai 1998, reste dangereusement bloquée, aussi bien du point de vue militaire que diplomatique. Cet article fournit l'arrière-plan de la situation et s'interroge sur le plan de paix lancé par l'OUA. Il souligne également la dimension économique du conflit, en insistant sur la rivalité entre élites tigréennes et érythréennes
Mohamed Kadamy under arrest
China’s Maritime Silk Road and Small States
This article sheds light on the factors shaping China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) in small states through a study of Djibouti and the MSRI. It also analyses the establishment of China’s first overseas military base and thus evaluates the military-security implications of Chinese MSRI ports. Among other things, it shows that we need to conceive the locational value of MSRI participants more richly, that the existence of an authoritarian…
Djibouti
Geography and politics indicate Djibouti would be a particularly weak and ineffectual ‘small state’. Located on a bridgehead between the poorest parts of Africa and Arabia, it is continental Africa’s smallest state by population and is devoid of natural resources. The text demonstrates that Djibouti has been able to transform weakness and liabilities stemming from its geo-strategic location, sandwiched between large neighbours and key maritime sh…
The security of Africans beyond borders
This article provides an overview of selected aspects of how the economic security of growing numbers of Africans is linked to international migration. It first examines the emergence since 2005 of a new international policy discourse emphasizing the positive economic benefits of migration through remittance flows, the transfer of ideas and inward investment by migrants. The article outlines European policy responses to the recent upsurge in ille…
EU power and armed humanitarianism in Africa
This article analyses the European Union's (EU's) largest European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) military mission outside Europe to date; Eufor Tchad/RCA was a 3700-strong force involving personnel from 23 states, deployed to Chad and the Central African Republic for 12 months from March 2008. Far from this mission achieving EU ‘supremacy’ or projecting an ‘imperial’ reach, an evaluation of its objectives and achievements reveals acute limit…
Jacques Chirac's ‘ non ’
This article narrates selected aspects of the background to France's threatened use of its UN Security Council veto in March 2003. The article suggests that, although far from inevitable, Chirac's ‘non’ of 10 March arose from a policy framework established by September 2002. Decision‐making therefore had a coherence and continuity largely ignored in English‐language reporting of French diplomacy in the run up to war. This framework was informed b…
Mohamed Kadamy under arrest
Chroniques de la guerre érythréo-éthiopienne
La guerre entre l'Éthiopie et l'Érythrée, qui a débuté en mai 1998, reste dangereusement bloquée, aussi bien du point de vue militaire que diplomatique. Cet article fournit l'arrière-plan de la situation et s'interroge sur le plan de paix lancé par l'OUA. Il souligne également la dimension économique du conflit, en insistant sur la rivalité entre élites tigréennes et érythréennes
Migration and Development
Jacques Chirac's ‘ non ’
This article narrates selected aspects of the background to France's threatened use of its UN Security Council veto in March 2003. The article suggests that, although far from inevitable, Chirac's ‘non’ of 10 March arose from a policy framework established by September 2002. Decision‐making therefore had a coherence and continuity largely ignored in English‐language reporting of French diplomacy in the run up to war. This framework was informed b…
France & Iraq
France’s opposition to the Iraq war in 2003 was greeted with surprise and outrage by Anglo-American politicians. But as David Styan argues in his penetrating new book, Chirac’s stance was consistent with a decades-long reorientation of French foreign policy. Styan dissects the processes by which a country notorious for its suppression of Algerian independence came to cast itself as the anti-imperialist champion of the Arab world. Styan charts Fra…
The security of Africans beyond borders
This article provides an overview of selected aspects of how the economic security of growing numbers of Africans is linked to international migration. It first examines the emergence since 2005 of a new international policy discourse emphasizing the positive economic benefits of migration through remittance flows, the transfer of ideas and inward investment by migrants. The article outlines European policy responses to the recent upsurge in ille…
La Nouvelle Vague?
EU power and armed humanitarianism in Africa
This article analyses the European Union's (EU's) largest European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) military mission outside Europe to date; Eufor Tchad/RCA was a 3700-strong force involving personnel from 23 states, deployed to Chad and the Central African Republic for 12 months from March 2008. Far from this mission achieving EU ‘supremacy’ or projecting an ‘imperial’ reach, an evaluation of its objectives and achievements reveals acute limit…
Fred Halliday
Numerous are the legacies bequeathed by the life and work of Fred Halliday. His words, broadcast and published in half a dozen languages, had a greater impact on the understanding of international issues than most public intellectuals of his generation. The breadth of his influence can be partially gleaned from the formal obituaries, testimonies, commentaries and initial academic analyses — as well as several posthumous works of his own — which h…
Introduction
All at Sea? Maritime Dimensions of Europe’s Relations with Africa
The article examines three dimensions of Europe’s maritime relations with Africa: first, the notion that Europe’s strategic maritime frontiers are linked to Africa; second, the coherence or ‘actorness’ of the European Union’s (EU) anti-piracy force operating off the Horn of Africa; and third, the relationship between the EU’s own military and naval objectives and its wider regional policies in Africa. While the EU adopted a ‘Maritime Security Str…
Djibouti
Geography and politics indicate Djibouti would be a particularly weak and ineffectual ‘small state’. Located on a bridgehead between the poorest parts of Africa and Arabia, it is continental Africa’s smallest state by population and is devoid of natural resources. The text demonstrates that Djibouti has been able to transform weakness and liabilities stemming from its geo-strategic location, sandwiched between large neighbours and key maritime sh…
China’s Maritime Silk Road and Small States
This article sheds light on the factors shaping China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) in small states through a study of Djibouti and the MSRI. It also analyses the establishment of China’s first overseas military base and thus evaluates the military-security implications of Chinese MSRI ports. Among other things, it shows that we need to conceive the locational value of MSRI participants more richly, that the existence of an authoritarian…
Political science (11 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Economy (3 works) · Foreign policy (3 works) · History (3 works)