Steven C Roach
Biographic Data
| ID | 1472205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven C Roach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven C |
| FAMILY NAME | Roach |
| SIGNATURE | ROACH S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
State fragility and its contents
International Relations
Featuring 16 new entries, International Relations: The Key Concepts, now in its fourth edition, is the essential guide for anyone interested in international affairs. Comprehensive and up to date, it introduces the most important themes in international relations. New entries include the following: Anthropocene Authoritarian populism Borders Brexit Dignity Hierarchy Intersectionality Pandemic Postmodern warfare Race war Resilience Featuring sugge…
South Sudan's Fateful Struggle
The Comprehensive Peace Agreement marked the end of Sudan’s second civil war between the North and South. But in creating an autonomous southern region and a pathway toward statehood, it failed to resolve the effects of rebel factionalism, party infighting, and corruption in the South. This book analyzes these persistent effects of the South–South war, showing how they disrupted the transition to statehood and divided the transitional government …
Bringing Cooperative Peace to the Nile Basin
Mapping Populism
Handbook of Critical International Relations
Decency and the Liberal International (Dis)Order
This article analyzes the tension between the liberal ideals of freedom and equality and cultural difference. It argues that decency has become intertwined with the fragility of the liberal international order by providing a problematic threshold of international justice. The idea is that as global pressures mount for protecting the human dignity of persons/peoples, they also congeal or harden decency’s political and social constraints (impartial…
Cultural Autonomy, Minority Rights and Globalization
Affective values in international relations
This article critically examines the interrelationship of values and emotions in international relations. It focuses on the different meaning of affects and emotions, and theorizes about the affective qualities of values in world politics. It defines affective values as values that arise from the ceaseless, unconscious striving(s) to contest the outside control over one’s life. In doing so, it distinguishes between negative affective values, whic…
South Sudan
Since the warring parties to South Sudan's civil war (2013–15) signed a peace agreement in August 2015, South Sudan has endured a series of setbacks and clashes that have threatened the fragile peace process. This article examines many key factors affecting the peace process, including rampant corruption, military factionalism, gross human rights abuses and ineffective foreign intervention/pressure. It shows that the past and present failure to s…
Why moral commitments matter
Much of the scholarly attention on commitments in international relations (IR) has remained narrowly framed, focusing on how states and other actors make strictly strategic calculations to comply with international norms and/or treaties. The trouble with this rationalist approach is that it oversimplifies the moral basis of commitments. This article offers a deeper analysis of this moral basis as well as the positive ethical values that help to d…
Multilayered Justice in Northern Uganda
In an effort to redress the effects of the civil war in Northern Uganda, local, state and international officials have begun to study the feasibility of re-adapting the procedures of local justice, including mato oput , a local procedure practiced by the Acholi tribe. This article examines this evolving multilayered project of justice in Northern Uganda. It addresses two features of this model: (1) the central features of local justice, in partic…
Legitimising negotiated justice
How has the International Criminal Court's (ICC) assertive use of judicial power enhanced its legitimacy as a fair and impartial court? I argue that preserving and even enhancing the ICC's legitimacy depends in large part on its willingness to negotiate more, rather than less, with states regarding its jurisdiction and requests for cooperation. In doing so, I address the challenges posed to the ICC's credibility and assess this factor of the ICC'…
How Political Is the ICC? Pressing Challenges and the Need for Diplomatic Efficacy
The International Criminal Court faces many daunting political challenges in Kenya, Libya, and Sudan. It has addressed these challenges and defended its impartiality in these situations by insisting that it remains an apolitical institution. This article challenges the conventional focus on the ICC's apolitical nature by adopting an alternative approach that examines its political and pragmatic role in seeking mutual accommodation. It argues that…
The Turbulent Politics of the International Criminal Court
During its eight years of operations, the ICC (or the “Court”) has shown a remarkable resilience to administer justice in the face of U.S. pressure. But with the Obama administration's recent pledg
Cosmopolitanism in Context
Is it possible and desirable to translate the basic principles underlying cosmopolitanism as a moral standard into effective global institutions. Will the ideals of inclusiveness and equal moral concern for all survive the marriage between cosmopolitanism and institutional power? What are the effects of such bureaucratisation of cosmopolitan ideals? This volume examines the strained relationship between cosmopolitanism as a moral standard and the…
Critical Theory and International Relations A Reader
"This reader provides students, scholars, and practitioners with a comprehensive compilation of essays, articles, and book selections which bring together the traditional and essential works of Critical Theory and Critical International Relations (IR) Theory. It features the writings of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, Pollock, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Habermas, Honneth, Fraser, Cox, Linklater, Ashley and Walker, Sylvester, and Dev…
Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations
Now in its second edition, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations has been thoroughly updated with several new entries and a new preface to reflect the latest developments. There are new sections on Constructivism, International Political Theory, and English School, as well as a range of new thinkers. They include: Samuel Huntington Christine Sylvester Jürgen Habermas John Rawls Barry Buzan Fully cross-referenced throughout, this book has …
Courting the Rule of Law? The International Criminal Court and Global Terrorism
Many concerns have arisen regarding the war on terrorism, including the loss of US credibility and the brutal treatment by the US military of detained suspects. Winning this war is arguably the most important objective for some policymakers and politicians; yet can the United States also begin to reclaim some moral high ground in this struggle? The closure of Guantanamo Bay prison and the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq would be critical s…
A Constitutional Right to Secede? Basque Nationalism and the Spanish State
This article analyzes the strategic parameters of a constitutional right to secede. It argues that these parameters help to qualify the right as a potentially effective alternative to either status quo symmetrical arrangements or a constitutional right to national territorial autonomy. To frame the right in this way is a little like decriminalizing drugs. If we legalize secession under certain conditions, we also eliminate much of the volatile te…
Critical International Theory and Meta-Dialectics
During the 1990s, IR scholars began to debate the merits of the dialectic as a method of IR theory. Much of the debate focused on Christian Heine's and Benno Teschke's efforts to situate dialectics in IR theory. Heine and Teschke, for instance, argued that dialectics had remained an overlooked social scientific (holistic) method of international relations theory. Despite their insights into its methodological value, dialectics has yet to evolve i…
International Relations
US Foreign Policy and the International Criminal Court
Humanitarian Emergencies and the International Criminal Court (ICC)
This article analyzes the role of humanitarian intervention in bringing together the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the UN Security Council. It argues that a framework for cooperation between the ICC and Security Council is needed to facilitate a coordinated response to humanitarian emergencies. One of the concepts explored is a mutual legitimacy push, or how the ICC and Security Council can lend effective assistance to one another when r…
Value Pluralism, Liberalism, and the Cosmopolitan Intent of the International Criminal Court
This article discusses the moral implications of the conflict that might arise between the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor's moral duty to investigate or prosecute and national resistance to the ICC's judgment of the domestic court's unwillingness to prosecute. Such conflict points to the thorny issue of upholding and developing the rule of law on the global level. To address this issue, I shall engage value pluralism and cosmopolit…
Affective values in international relations
This article critically examines the interrelationship of values and emotions in international relations. It focuses on the different meaning of affects and emotions, and theorizes about the affective qualities of values in world politics. It defines affective values as values that arise from the ceaseless, unconscious striving(s) to contest the outside control over one’s life. In doing so, it distinguishes between negative affective values, whic…
Critical International Theory and Meta-Dialectics
During the 1990s, IR scholars began to debate the merits of the dialectic as a method of IR theory. Much of the debate focused on Christian Heine's and Benno Teschke's efforts to situate dialectics in IR theory. Heine and Teschke, for instance, argued that dialectics had remained an overlooked social scientific (holistic) method of international relations theory. Despite their insights into its methodological value, dialectics has yet to evolve i…
Arab States and the Role of Islam in the International Criminal Court
This article assesses the various disagreements between Arab and western states that surfaced at the 1998 Rome Conference and Preparatory Commission. It also discusses the relationship between state repression and cultural adaptation by examining the undeveloped domestic criminal systems of Arab states and the ambiguous role played by shariah (Islamic law) in the constitutions of many of them. It argues two main points: that more mutual accommoda…
Decisionism and Humanitarian Intervention
International legal scholars and political scientists have devised many alternative proposals to legalize politically legitimized humanitarian interventions. While many of these alternative legal mechanisms have addressed the limits to the UN Charter and the political and economic consequences of intervention, they also have exposed the need for more theoretical analysis of the shift in political responsibilities and decision making from the stat…
South Sudan
Since the warring parties to South Sudan's civil war (2013–15) signed a peace agreement in August 2015, South Sudan has endured a series of setbacks and clashes that have threatened the fragile peace process. This article examines many key factors affecting the peace process, including rampant corruption, military factionalism, gross human rights abuses and ineffective foreign intervention/pressure. It shows that the past and present failure to s…
Multilayered Justice in Northern Uganda
In an effort to redress the effects of the civil war in Northern Uganda, local, state and international officials have begun to study the feasibility of re-adapting the procedures of local justice, including mato oput , a local procedure practiced by the Acholi tribe. This article examines this evolving multilayered project of justice in Northern Uganda. It addresses two features of this model: (1) the central features of local justice, in partic…
A Constitutional Right to Secede? Basque Nationalism and the Spanish State
This article analyzes the strategic parameters of a constitutional right to secede. It argues that these parameters help to qualify the right as a potentially effective alternative to either status quo symmetrical arrangements or a constitutional right to national territorial autonomy. To frame the right in this way is a little like decriminalizing drugs. If we legalize secession under certain conditions, we also eliminate much of the volatile te…
Why moral commitments matter
Much of the scholarly attention on commitments in international relations (IR) has remained narrowly framed, focusing on how states and other actors make strictly strategic calculations to comply with international norms and/or treaties. The trouble with this rationalist approach is that it oversimplifies the moral basis of commitments. This article offers a deeper analysis of this moral basis as well as the positive ethical values that help to d…
How Political Is the ICC? Pressing Challenges and the Need for Diplomatic Efficacy
The International Criminal Court faces many daunting political challenges in Kenya, Libya, and Sudan. It has addressed these challenges and defended its impartiality in these situations by insisting that it remains an apolitical institution. This article challenges the conventional focus on the ICC's apolitical nature by adopting an alternative approach that examines its political and pragmatic role in seeking mutual accommodation. It argues that…
Humanitarian Emergencies and the International Criminal Court (ICC)
This article analyzes the role of humanitarian intervention in bringing together the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the UN Security Council. It argues that a framework for cooperation between the ICC and Security Council is needed to facilitate a coordinated response to humanitarian emergencies. One of the concepts explored is a mutual legitimacy push, or how the ICC and Security Council can lend effective assistance to one another when r…
Value Pluralism, Liberalism, and the Cosmopolitan Intent of the International Criminal Court
This article discusses the moral implications of the conflict that might arise between the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor's moral duty to investigate or prosecute and national resistance to the ICC's judgment of the domestic court's unwillingness to prosecute. Such conflict points to the thorny issue of upholding and developing the rule of law on the global level. To address this issue, I shall engage value pluralism and cosmopolit…
Minority rights and the dialectics of the nation
Minority rights and the dialectics of the nation
Humanitarian Emergencies and the International Criminal Court (ICC)
This article analyzes the role of humanitarian intervention in bringing together the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the UN Security Council. It argues that a framework for cooperation between the ICC and Security Council is needed to facilitate a coordinated response to humanitarian emergencies. One of the concepts explored is a mutual legitimacy push, or how the ICC and Security Council can lend effective assistance to one another when r…
Value Pluralism, Liberalism, and the Cosmopolitan Intent of the International Criminal Court
This article discusses the moral implications of the conflict that might arise between the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor's moral duty to investigate or prosecute and national resistance to the ICC's judgment of the domestic court's unwillingness to prosecute. Such conflict points to the thorny issue of upholding and developing the rule of law on the global level. To address this issue, I shall engage value pluralism and cosmopolit…
Humanitarian coercion
This article analyses the strategic role of NGOs, the global media, and international criminal courts in the Kosovo war. I argue that the global media, NGOs, the internal displacement of peoples, and international criminal courts are not simply instrumental to the exercise of state power, but are independent factors that actively shape the coercer's strategic policy. Three claims serve as the basis of my argument: first, humanitarian suffering, a…
Decisionism and Humanitarian Intervention
International legal scholars and political scientists have devised many alternative proposals to legalize politically legitimized humanitarian interventions. While many of these alternative legal mechanisms have addressed the limits to the UN Charter and the political and economic consequences of intervention, they also have exposed the need for more theoretical analysis of the shift in political responsibilities and decision making from the stat…
Arab States and the Role of Islam in the International Criminal Court
This article assesses the various disagreements between Arab and western states that surfaced at the 1998 Rome Conference and Preparatory Commission. It also discusses the relationship between state repression and cultural adaptation by examining the undeveloped domestic criminal systems of Arab states and the ambiguous role played by shariah (Islamic law) in the constitutions of many of them. It argues two main points: that more mutual accommoda…
US Foreign Policy and the International Criminal Court
A Constitutional Right to Secede? Basque Nationalism and the Spanish State
This article analyzes the strategic parameters of a constitutional right to secede. It argues that these parameters help to qualify the right as a potentially effective alternative to either status quo symmetrical arrangements or a constitutional right to national territorial autonomy. To frame the right in this way is a little like decriminalizing drugs. If we legalize secession under certain conditions, we also eliminate much of the volatile te…
Critical International Theory and Meta-Dialectics
During the 1990s, IR scholars began to debate the merits of the dialectic as a method of IR theory. Much of the debate focused on Christian Heine's and Benno Teschke's efforts to situate dialectics in IR theory. Heine and Teschke, for instance, argued that dialectics had remained an overlooked social scientific (holistic) method of international relations theory. Despite their insights into its methodological value, dialectics has yet to evolve i…
International Relations
Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations
Now in its second edition, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations has been thoroughly updated with several new entries and a new preface to reflect the latest developments. There are new sections on Constructivism, International Political Theory, and English School, as well as a range of new thinkers. They include: Samuel Huntington Christine Sylvester Jürgen Habermas John Rawls Barry Buzan Fully cross-referenced throughout, this book has …
Courting the Rule of Law? The International Criminal Court and Global Terrorism
Many concerns have arisen regarding the war on terrorism, including the loss of US credibility and the brutal treatment by the US military of detained suspects. Winning this war is arguably the most important objective for some policymakers and politicians; yet can the United States also begin to reclaim some moral high ground in this struggle? The closure of Guantanamo Bay prison and the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq would be critical s…
Critical Theory and International Relations A Reader
"This reader provides students, scholars, and practitioners with a comprehensive compilation of essays, articles, and book selections which bring together the traditional and essential works of Critical Theory and Critical International Relations (IR) Theory. It features the writings of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, Pollock, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Habermas, Honneth, Fraser, Cox, Linklater, Ashley and Walker, Sylvester, and Dev…
Cosmopolitanism in Context
Is it possible and desirable to translate the basic principles underlying cosmopolitanism as a moral standard into effective global institutions. Will the ideals of inclusiveness and equal moral concern for all survive the marriage between cosmopolitanism and institutional power? What are the effects of such bureaucratisation of cosmopolitan ideals? This volume examines the strained relationship between cosmopolitanism as a moral standard and the…
The Turbulent Politics of the International Criminal Court
During its eight years of operations, the ICC (or the “Court”) has shown a remarkable resilience to administer justice in the face of U.S. pressure. But with the Obama administration's recent pledg
Multilayered Justice in Northern Uganda
In an effort to redress the effects of the civil war in Northern Uganda, local, state and international officials have begun to study the feasibility of re-adapting the procedures of local justice, including mato oput , a local procedure practiced by the Acholi tribe. This article examines this evolving multilayered project of justice in Northern Uganda. It addresses two features of this model: (1) the central features of local justice, in partic…
Legitimising negotiated justice
How has the International Criminal Court's (ICC) assertive use of judicial power enhanced its legitimacy as a fair and impartial court? I argue that preserving and even enhancing the ICC's legitimacy depends in large part on its willingness to negotiate more, rather than less, with states regarding its jurisdiction and requests for cooperation. In doing so, I address the challenges posed to the ICC's credibility and assess this factor of the ICC'…
How Political Is the ICC? Pressing Challenges and the Need for Diplomatic Efficacy
The International Criminal Court faces many daunting political challenges in Kenya, Libya, and Sudan. It has addressed these challenges and defended its impartiality in these situations by insisting that it remains an apolitical institution. This article challenges the conventional focus on the ICC's apolitical nature by adopting an alternative approach that examines its political and pragmatic role in seeking mutual accommodation. It argues that…
Why moral commitments matter
Much of the scholarly attention on commitments in international relations (IR) has remained narrowly framed, focusing on how states and other actors make strictly strategic calculations to comply with international norms and/or treaties. The trouble with this rationalist approach is that it oversimplifies the moral basis of commitments. This article offers a deeper analysis of this moral basis as well as the positive ethical values that help to d…
Affective values in international relations
This article critically examines the interrelationship of values and emotions in international relations. It focuses on the different meaning of affects and emotions, and theorizes about the affective qualities of values in world politics. It defines affective values as values that arise from the ceaseless, unconscious striving(s) to contest the outside control over one’s life. In doing so, it distinguishes between negative affective values, whic…
South Sudan
Since the warring parties to South Sudan's civil war (2013–15) signed a peace agreement in August 2015, South Sudan has endured a series of setbacks and clashes that have threatened the fragile peace process. This article examines many key factors affecting the peace process, including rampant corruption, military factionalism, gross human rights abuses and ineffective foreign intervention/pressure. It shows that the past and present failure to s…
Decency and the Liberal International (Dis)Order
This article analyzes the tension between the liberal ideals of freedom and equality and cultural difference. It argues that decency has become intertwined with the fragility of the liberal international order by providing a problematic threshold of international justice. The idea is that as global pressures mount for protecting the human dignity of persons/peoples, they also congeal or harden decency’s political and social constraints (impartial…
Cultural Autonomy, Minority Rights and Globalization
Handbook of Critical International Relations
Bringing Cooperative Peace to the Nile Basin
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