Susan Willett
Biographic Data
| ID | 143608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Willett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Willett |
| SIGNATURE | WILLETT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction
October 2010 marks the tenth anniversary of UN Security Council resolution 1325, on ‘Women, Peace and Security’. Hailed as a major milestone in the struggle for gender equality in all aspects of peacemaking, peacekeeping and post-conflict recovery, the implementation of 1325 has floundered over the intervening years. Gender discourse has been submerged by the dominant UN epistemology of hegemonic masculinity, militarism and war. This essay contex…
Defence Expenditures, Arms Procurement and Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
In November 2007, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) launched its ‘Transparency in Defence Expenditure’, or TIDE, initiative, designed to fight corruption in military expenditures and arms procurement. Its initial focus was on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region regarded as the most corrupt in the world. By focusing solely on the bribe-takers in SSA while studiously avoiding reference to the bribe-makers, DFID has opened itself…
New Barbarians at the Gate
Within contemporary liberal peace discourse, poverty and underdevelopment are being constructed as ‘new threats’ that feed conflict and terrorism. This perception has encouraged a growing convergence between the security and development policies of the major donors. However, in Africa, where the need to simultaneously tackle conflict and underdevelopment is most pressing, the global institutions have failed to acknowledge that the neo-liberal pol…
Insecurity, Conflict and the New Global Disorder
Summaries The current neoliberal preoccupation with the benefits of globalisation, which have been hailed as the great panacea for all the world's economic problems, has done little for the 1.3 billion people whose economic circumstances have stagnated or deteriorated in poverty over the last ten years. The neoliberal idea that somehow the benefits of global economic growth will ‘trickle down’ to the world's poor, has been challenged by the stark…
Introduction Globalisation and Insecurity
explores selected aspects of the relationship between globalisation, security and development. The topic addresses growing concerns about the
Disarmament and Defence
Peter Batchelor and Susan Willett, Disarmament and Defence: industrial adjustment in South Africa.Oxford: Oxford University Press; Stockholm: International Peace Research Institute, 1998, 249 pp., £30.00, ISBN 0 19 829413 1. - Volume 70 Issue 1
Demilitarisation, disarmament & development in Southern Africa
Theories of how and why violent conflicts occur generally distinguish between structural factors on the one hand and accelerating or triggering factors on the other (Azar, 1990). Structural factors, which must be viewed as long term, include interrelated political, social and economic elements, such as the failure to meet basic human needs, population pressure, unequal distribution of wealth, depletion of natural resources, environmental degradat…
East Asia's changing defence industry
Ostriches, wise old elephants and economic reconstruction in Mozambique
The UN's support for democracy and elections in Mozambique, as part of the multidimensional follow‐up to the ONUMOZ peacekeeping operation, will not establish lasting stability. The involvement of the international community is at odds with itself in its failure to address underlying development problems in a coherent and consistent way. In spite of its rhetorical emphasis on long‐term development, the UN's resources are increasingly channelled i…
Awards
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The legacy of a Pariah state
South Africa's defence industry was built up in the context of the UN arms embargo and during the period from 1975 to 1989. It was developed and coordinated by the Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor), renowned for an unaccountable, insidious covert culture which involved arms smuggling, corruption and most recently selling $30million worth of arms to the government of Rwanda. A commission of inquiry ‐ the Cameron Commission has been s…
Dragon's Fire and Tiger's Claws
(1994). Dragon's Fire and Tiger's Claws: Arms trade and production in Far East Asia. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 15, Post‐Cold War Security Issues in the Asia‐Pacific Region, pp. 112-135
The silent revolution
Journal Article The silent revolution: development of conventional weapons 1945–85 Get access The silent revolution: development of conventional weapons 1945–85. By Guy Hartcup. London: Brassey's. 1993. 328pp. Index. £30.00. ISBN 0 08 036702 x. Susan Willett Susan Willett 1Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 2, April 1994…
Introduction
October 2010 marks the tenth anniversary of UN Security Council resolution 1325, on ‘Women, Peace and Security’. Hailed as a major milestone in the struggle for gender equality in all aspects of peacemaking, peacekeeping and post-conflict recovery, the implementation of 1325 has floundered over the intervening years. Gender discourse has been submerged by the dominant UN epistemology of hegemonic masculinity, militarism and war. This essay contex…
New Barbarians at the Gate
Within contemporary liberal peace discourse, poverty and underdevelopment are being constructed as ‘new threats’ that feed conflict and terrorism. This perception has encouraged a growing convergence between the security and development policies of the major donors. However, in Africa, where the need to simultaneously tackle conflict and underdevelopment is most pressing, the global institutions have failed to acknowledge that the neo-liberal pol…
Disarmament and Defence
Peter Batchelor and Susan Willett, Disarmament and Defence: industrial adjustment in South Africa.Oxford: Oxford University Press; Stockholm: International Peace Research Institute, 1998, 249 pp., £30.00, ISBN 0 19 829413 1. - Volume 70 Issue 1
Ostriches, wise old elephants and economic reconstruction in Mozambique
The UN's support for democracy and elections in Mozambique, as part of the multidimensional follow‐up to the ONUMOZ peacekeeping operation, will not establish lasting stability. The involvement of the international community is at odds with itself in its failure to address underlying development problems in a coherent and consistent way. In spite of its rhetorical emphasis on long‐term development, the UN's resources are increasingly channelled i…
Demilitarisation, disarmament & development in Southern Africa
Theories of how and why violent conflicts occur generally distinguish between structural factors on the one hand and accelerating or triggering factors on the other (Azar, 1990). Structural factors, which must be viewed as long term, include interrelated political, social and economic elements, such as the failure to meet basic human needs, population pressure, unequal distribution of wealth, depletion of natural resources, environmental degradat…
The legacy of a Pariah state
South Africa's defence industry was built up in the context of the UN arms embargo and during the period from 1975 to 1989. It was developed and coordinated by the Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor), renowned for an unaccountable, insidious covert culture which involved arms smuggling, corruption and most recently selling $30million worth of arms to the government of Rwanda. A commission of inquiry ‐ the Cameron Commission has been s…
Defence Expenditures, Arms Procurement and Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
In November 2007, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) launched its ‘Transparency in Defence Expenditure’, or TIDE, initiative, designed to fight corruption in military expenditures and arms procurement. Its initial focus was on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region regarded as the most corrupt in the world. By focusing solely on the bribe-takers in SSA while studiously avoiding reference to the bribe-makers, DFID has opened itself…
East Asia's changing defence industry
Dragon's Fire and Tiger's Claws
(1994). Dragon's Fire and Tiger's Claws: Arms trade and production in Far East Asia. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 15, Post‐Cold War Security Issues in the Asia‐Pacific Region, pp. 112-135
The silent revolution
Journal Article The silent revolution: development of conventional weapons 1945–85 Get access The silent revolution: development of conventional weapons 1945–85. By Guy Hartcup. London: Brassey's. 1993. 328pp. Index. £30.00. ISBN 0 08 036702 x. Susan Willett Susan Willett 1Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 70, Issue 2, April 1994…
Ostriches, wise old elephants and economic reconstruction in Mozambique
The UN's support for democracy and elections in Mozambique, as part of the multidimensional follow‐up to the ONUMOZ peacekeeping operation, will not establish lasting stability. The involvement of the international community is at odds with itself in its failure to address underlying development problems in a coherent and consistent way. In spite of its rhetorical emphasis on long‐term development, the UN's resources are increasingly channelled i…
Awards
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The legacy of a Pariah state
South Africa's defence industry was built up in the context of the UN arms embargo and during the period from 1975 to 1989. It was developed and coordinated by the Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor), renowned for an unaccountable, insidious covert culture which involved arms smuggling, corruption and most recently selling $30million worth of arms to the government of Rwanda. A commission of inquiry ‐ the Cameron Commission has been s…
East Asia's changing defence industry
Demilitarisation, disarmament & development in Southern Africa
Theories of how and why violent conflicts occur generally distinguish between structural factors on the one hand and accelerating or triggering factors on the other (Azar, 1990). Structural factors, which must be viewed as long term, include interrelated political, social and economic elements, such as the failure to meet basic human needs, population pressure, unequal distribution of wealth, depletion of natural resources, environmental degradat…
Disarmament and Defence
Peter Batchelor and Susan Willett, Disarmament and Defence: industrial adjustment in South Africa.Oxford: Oxford University Press; Stockholm: International Peace Research Institute, 1998, 249 pp., £30.00, ISBN 0 19 829413 1. - Volume 70 Issue 1
Insecurity, Conflict and the New Global Disorder
Summaries The current neoliberal preoccupation with the benefits of globalisation, which have been hailed as the great panacea for all the world's economic problems, has done little for the 1.3 billion people whose economic circumstances have stagnated or deteriorated in poverty over the last ten years. The neoliberal idea that somehow the benefits of global economic growth will ‘trickle down’ to the world's poor, has been challenged by the stark…
Introduction Globalisation and Insecurity
explores selected aspects of the relationship between globalisation, security and development. The topic addresses growing concerns about the
New Barbarians at the Gate
Within contemporary liberal peace discourse, poverty and underdevelopment are being constructed as ‘new threats’ that feed conflict and terrorism. This perception has encouraged a growing convergence between the security and development policies of the major donors. However, in Africa, where the need to simultaneously tackle conflict and underdevelopment is most pressing, the global institutions have failed to acknowledge that the neo-liberal pol…
Defence Expenditures, Arms Procurement and Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
In November 2007, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) launched its ‘Transparency in Defence Expenditure’, or TIDE, initiative, designed to fight corruption in military expenditures and arms procurement. Its initial focus was on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region regarded as the most corrupt in the world. By focusing solely on the bribe-takers in SSA while studiously avoiding reference to the bribe-makers, DFID has opened itself…
Introduction
October 2010 marks the tenth anniversary of UN Security Council resolution 1325, on ‘Women, Peace and Security’. Hailed as a major milestone in the struggle for gender equality in all aspects of peacemaking, peacekeeping and post-conflict recovery, the implementation of 1325 has floundered over the intervening years. Gender discourse has been submerged by the dominant UN epistemology of hegemonic masculinity, militarism and war. This essay contex…
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