Robin Luckham
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 157073 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robin Luckham |
| PRENOMES | Robin |
| SOBRENOME | Luckham |
| ASSINATURA | LUCKHAM R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1165-8452 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 227 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
War, peace and empire in modern memory
Building inclusive peace and security in times of unequal development and rising violence
This paper situates the challenges of building peace and security within the historical legacies of unequal development, militarism and global violence. It identifies the spaces for change opened by shifts in global balances of power and profit during the twenty-first century. Rapid technological changes, notably in information technologies are transforming the worlds of war and work. Frameworks of political authority are loosening, called in que…
Hybridité et gouvernance de la sécurité en Afrique
Dans le cadre du programme de recherche trisannuel « Hybrid Security Governance in Africa (HSG), soutenu par le CRDI (Centre de recherche pour le développement international) du gouvernement canadien, Eboe Hutchful, Robin Luckham et Niagalé Bagayoko ont développé une réflexion à la fois théorique et empirique, articulée autour du concept « d’hybridité », utilisé afin de saisir la coexistence de différents systèmes de régulation et de gouvernance,…
Introduction
This article introduces a Peacebuilding special issue on rethinking security, peacebuilding and violence reduction in the light of Sustainable Development Goal 16 on ‘promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development’. The special issue presents new analysis and case studies, which aim to challenge and refresh the established policy consensus around violence reduction and security. They are distinctive in focusing upon the ve…
Whose violence, whose security? Can violence reduction and security work for poor, excluded and vulnerable people
This paper probes behind the assumptions underpinning the violence reduction agendas of the UN and the World Bank: that all forms of violence are commensurate and fit neatly into causal models; that violence is ‘development in reverse’ and inseparable from state fragility; and that security is a self-evident public good. It presents a framework to classify global, state and non-state or local violences and the interactions amongst them. It sugges…
Hybrid security governance in Africa
Politicians and Soldiers in Ghana 1966-1972
Understanding security in the vernacular in hybrid political contexts
In this article we propose two alternative yet interrelated definitions of security, which jointly encapsulate its dual and contested nature. These definitions were constructed to guide a literatur
Introduction
Security is a contested concept, which means very different things to different people. It bears the heavy historical imprint of the existing state system and of global capitalism. However this IDS Bulletin contends that it is essential that the development community understands and engages with security issues, for violent conflict and insecurity can no longer be treated as exogenous shocks disturbing the smooth course of development; but rather…
The discordant voices of 'security
This article examines the links between development and ‘security’, situating these concepts within their philosophical and political contexts, particularly in relation to contemporary wars, including the ‘war on terror’, and the so-called ‘securitisation’ of development. The security of states does not necessarily ensure the security of their citizens, and the very concept of security is both complex and contested. The author provides a succinct…
The international community and state reconstruction in war-torn societies
Global Transformations and New Conflicts
Summaries The central argument of this article is that a central feature of post?Cold War conflicts has been the delegitimisation of public authority, interacting with globalisation, through a process which is almost the reverse of state and nation?building. The political economy of the ‘new wars’ involves a mix of state and non?state, national and international violence. It creates vicious cycles, reinforcing the decline in the formal sector, br…
What Happens to the State in Conflict
It is now part of received wisdom that humanitarian assistance in conflict and post-conflict situations may be ineffective or even counterproductive in the absence of an informed understanding of the broader political context in which so-called 'complex political emergencies' (CPEs) occur. Though recognising that specific cases have to be understood in their own terms, this article offers a framework for incorporating political analysis in policy…
Popular versus liberal democracy in Nicaragua and Tanzania
This article takes issue with those analyses of 'developmental democracy' which treat popular participation as a clamorous inconvenience to be managed in the interests of economic efficiency. Instead it asks what follows from prioritizing participation both as a defining feature of democracy, and as an integral part of what is meant by development. The analysis is developed in two parts. The first contrasts the narratives of popular and of libera…
Globalization and/or Democratization
Crafting democratic control over the military
This is the second part of an extended article; Part I, 'Democracy and the Military: An Epitaph for Frankenstein's Monster?' appeared in the previous issue of this journal. Part II takes as its starting point the theoretical analysis developed in Part I and applies it to three empirical cases, South Korea, Chile and Ghana. Behind the superficial similarity between the way the transition to democracy has been 'crafted' in the three countries, ther…
Democracy and the military
This article contends that the relationship between the military and democracy is inherently problematic, even in advanced democracies, but more so in developing countries, including those where transitions to democracy have recently taken place. These transitions have usually been speeded by the fracturing of authoritarian regimes and their military and security structures (which are seldom completely monolithic). An analytical model illustrates…
Dilemmas of Military Disengagement and Democratization in Africa
This article contends that one of the first tasks of new African democracies is to bring military establishments under democratic control. Although it might seem armies are now in retreat from politics, this has been ‘demilitarization by default’, resulting from economic and fiscal retrenchment and massive cuts in external military assistance, rather than from considered policy choices. Those attempting to tame the armed forces permanently face a…
The Military, Militarization and Democratization in Africa
The studies of African military establishments that appeared from the late 1960s, after the first wave of coups, were very much the products of their time. The theories of modernization and political development that were their starting point were the ideas of an epoch: that of decolonization, nation-building, internationalization of capital, consolidation of U.S. hegemony, and globalization of American social science. They are of interest now be…
Anarchy or Transformation? Scenarios for Change
Nothing sharpens debate like crisis. The analyses presented in this Bulletin call attention to the interconnections between recession and the global arms race, between the crises in North-South and East-West relations. It is no longer possible to take decisions on any major global issue without considering how it relates to other items on the global agenda. We live in a state of interdependent disequilibrium
Foreign powers and militarism in the horn of Africa
A central argument of this paper is that the conflicts in the Horn can be understood as a collision of geographical cycles: those established by the working out of local historical processes in the Horn; and those by the working out of historical processes at the global level, including crises in the international economy and the new Cold War. Weapons have been one of the crucial links between these cycles. They have also been central in the emer…
Foreign powers and militarism in the horn of Africa
The first part of this article, which appeared in ROAPE 30, set an explanation of the new militarisation of the Horn in two, interacting contexts: the long history of struggles between states in the Horn for hegemony, and the struggle for world hegemony that constitutes the New Cold War. This part offers a systematic review of the record of involvement of the USA and USSR in the Horn over the last 20 years and seeks to uncover the (different) mot…
Armament Culture
Militarisation and the New International Anarchy
(1984). Militarisation and the New International Anarchy. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 351-373
The Nigerian military
List of tables Preface Map Introduction Part I. Two Military Coups Part II. The Nigerian Military as a Social System Part III. The Military and Politics Appendices Indexes.
The Military, Militarization and Democratization in Africa
The studies of African military establishments that appeared from the late 1960s, after the first wave of coups, were very much the products of their time. The theories of modernization and political development that were their starting point were the ideas of an epoch: that of decolonization, nation-building, internationalization of capital, consolidation of U.S. hegemony, and globalization of American social science. They are of interest now be…
Hybrid security governance in Africa
The Nigerian Military
Politicians and Soldiers in Ghana 1966-1972
French militarism in Africa
In the annals of foreign military intervention in independent Africa, it has been French forces that have been involved far more often than any other outside power. At least eighteen times in the last twenty‐five years French troops have invaded African soil. But equally significant, and indeed providing the platform for the more dramatic interventions, are the extensive networks of regular military co‐operation. Several single explanations of Fr…
Whose violence, whose security? Can violence reduction and security work for poor, excluded and vulnerable people
This paper probes behind the assumptions underpinning the violence reduction agendas of the UN and the World Bank: that all forms of violence are commensurate and fit neatly into causal models; that violence is ‘development in reverse’ and inseparable from state fragility; and that security is a self-evident public good. It presents a framework to classify global, state and non-state or local violences and the interactions amongst them. It sugges…
Understanding security in the vernacular in hybrid political contexts
In this article we propose two alternative yet interrelated definitions of security, which jointly encapsulate its dual and contested nature. These definitions were constructed to guide a literatur
Armament Culture
Structure and Conflict in Nigeria 1960–1966
Journal Article Structure and Conflict in Nigeria 1960–1966 Get access Structure and Conflict in Nigeria 1960–1966. By Kenneth Post and Michael Vickers. London: Heinemann Educational Books. 1973. 248 pp. Bibliog. Index. £3⋅50. Paperback: £1⋅80. Robin Luckham Robin Luckham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 1974, Pages 324–325, https://doi.org/10.2307/2616739 Pu…
What Happens to the State in Conflict
It is now part of received wisdom that humanitarian assistance in conflict and post-conflict situations may be ineffective or even counterproductive in the absence of an informed understanding of the broader political context in which so-called 'complex political emergencies' (CPEs) occur. Though recognising that specific cases have to be understood in their own terms, this article offers a framework for incorporating political analysis in policy…
Introduction
Security is a contested concept, which means very different things to different people. It bears the heavy historical imprint of the existing state system and of global capitalism. However this IDS Bulletin contends that it is essential that the development community understands and engages with security issues, for violent conflict and insecurity can no longer be treated as exogenous shocks disturbing the smooth course of development; but rather…
The discordant voices of 'security
This article examines the links between development and ‘security’, situating these concepts within their philosophical and political contexts, particularly in relation to contemporary wars, including the ‘war on terror’, and the so-called ‘securitisation’ of development. The security of states does not necessarily ensure the security of their citizens, and the very concept of security is both complex and contested. The author provides a succinct…
Democracy and the military
This article contends that the relationship between the military and democracy is inherently problematic, even in advanced democracies, but more so in developing countries, including those where transitions to democracy have recently taken place. These transitions have usually been speeded by the fracturing of authoritarian regimes and their military and security structures (which are seldom completely monolithic). An analytical model illustrates…
The Nigerian Military
Introduction
This article introduces a Peacebuilding special issue on rethinking security, peacebuilding and violence reduction in the light of Sustainable Development Goal 16 on ‘promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development’. The special issue presents new analysis and case studies, which aim to challenge and refresh the established policy consensus around violence reduction and security. They are distinctive in focusing upon the ve…
Armaments, Underdevelopment and Demilitarisation in Africa
The process of militarization in Africa includes not only the actual acquisition of weapons, but also the extension of military values into political and social structures. This has contributed to an expansion in the size and power of the military establishment, to a reliance on repression by authoritarian regimes, to the continuance of internal and external war, and to an ideology that equates national sovereignty with military power. The backgr…
Global Transformations and New Conflicts
Summaries The central argument of this article is that a central feature of post?Cold War conflicts has been the delegitimisation of public authority, interacting with globalisation, through a process which is almost the reverse of state and nation?building. The political economy of the ‘new wars’ involves a mix of state and non?state, national and international violence. It creates vicious cycles, reinforcing the decline in the formal sector, br…
Dilemmas of Military Disengagement and Democratization in Africa
This article contends that one of the first tasks of new African democracies is to bring military establishments under democratic control. Although it might seem armies are now in retreat from politics, this has been ‘demilitarization by default’, resulting from economic and fiscal retrenchment and massive cuts in external military assistance, rather than from considered policy choices. Those attempting to tame the armed forces permanently face a…
The international community and state reconstruction in war-torn societies
Popular versus liberal democracy in Nicaragua and Tanzania
This article takes issue with those analyses of 'developmental democracy' which treat popular participation as a clamorous inconvenience to be managed in the interests of economic efficiency. Instead it asks what follows from prioritizing participation both as a defining feature of democracy, and as an integral part of what is meant by development. The analysis is developed in two parts. The first contrasts the narratives of popular and of libera…
Foreign powers and militarism in the horn of Africa
A central argument of this paper is that the conflicts in the Horn can be understood as a collision of geographical cycles: those established by the working out of local historical processes in the Horn; and those by the working out of historical processes at the global level, including crises in the international economy and the new Cold War. Weapons have been one of the crucial links between these cycles. They have also been central in the emer…
Imperialism, Law and Structural Dependence
Building inclusive peace and security in times of unequal development and rising violence
This paper situates the challenges of building peace and security within the historical legacies of unequal development, militarism and global violence. It identifies the spaces for change opened by shifts in global balances of power and profit during the twenty-first century. Rapid technological changes, notably in information technologies are transforming the worlds of war and work. Frameworks of political authority are loosening, called in que…
Crafting democratic control over the military
This is the second part of an extended article; Part I, 'Democracy and the Military: An Epitaph for Frankenstein's Monster?' appeared in the previous issue of this journal. Part II takes as its starting point the theoretical analysis developed in Part I and applies it to three empirical cases, South Korea, Chile and Ghana. Behind the superficial similarity between the way the transition to democracy has been 'crafted' in the three countries, ther…
Anarchy or Transformation? Scenarios for Change
Nothing sharpens debate like crisis. The analyses presented in this Bulletin call attention to the interconnections between recession and the global arms race, between the crises in North-South and East-West relations. It is no longer possible to take decisions on any major global issue without considering how it relates to other items on the global agenda. We live in a state of interdependent disequilibrium
The Nigerian Military
The Army in Nigeria
The Nigerian Military
Structure and Conflict in Nigeria 1960–1966
Journal Article Structure and Conflict in Nigeria 1960–1966 Get access Structure and Conflict in Nigeria 1960–1966. By Kenneth Post and Michael Vickers. London: Heinemann Educational Books. 1973. 248 pp. Bibliog. Index. £3⋅50. Paperback: £1⋅80. Robin Luckham Robin Luckham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 1974, Pages 324–325, https://doi.org/10.2307/2616739 Pu…
The Nigerian Military
The Ghana Legal Profession
ResumeCet article présente une recherche sur les avocats du Ghana menée par 1’auteur de 1969 å 1976. Dépassant un simple résume des conclusions, il suggère comment celles-ci ont émergé du rapport dialectique entre la théorie et l’enquête empirique.La recherche se centrait au début sur le transfert des rôles professionnels de la Grande-Bretagne au Ghana et sur les conséquences de ce transfert quant au rapport entre les avocats et le gouvernement, …
Imperialism, Law and Structural Dependence
Armaments, Underdevelopment and Demilitarisation in Africa
The process of militarization in Africa includes not only the actual acquisition of weapons, but also the extension of military values into political and social structures. This has contributed to an expansion in the size and power of the military establishment, to a reliance on repression by authoritarian regimes, to the continuance of internal and external war, and to an ideology that equates national sovereignty with military power. The backgr…
French militarism in Africa
In the annals of foreign military intervention in independent Africa, it has been French forces that have been involved far more often than any other outside power. At least eighteen times in the last twenty‐five years French troops have invaded African soil. But equally significant, and indeed providing the platform for the more dramatic interventions, are the extensive networks of regular military co‐operation. Several single explanations of Fr…
Lawyers in the Third World
Journal Article Lawyers in the Third World: Comparative and Developmental Perspectives Get access Lawyers in The Third World: Comparative and Developmental Perspectives. CJ.Dias, R.Luckham, D.O.Lynch, J.C.N.Paul (eds). Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies and the International Center for Law in Development, 1981. Pp. 378. Steven Lowenstein Steven Lowenstein *Director, Oregon Legal Services Corp. Search for other works by this author…
Le militarisme français
Luckham Robin,Buijtenhuijs Robert. Le militarisme français. In: Politique africaine, n°6, 1982. Le pouvoir d'être riche. pp. 45-71
Le militarisme français en Afrique
Luckham Robin,Buijtenhuijs Robert. Le militarisme français en Afrique. In: Politique africaine, n°5, 1982. La France en Afrique. pp. 95-110
Security and Disarmament in Africa
The article begins by noting that the evolution of the earlier term ‘defence’, through a brief life as ‘collective security’ (coinciding with the life of the League of Nations), into ‘security’ is not merely a semantic variation; it signifies a qualitative change in the connotation of the term. It traces how, born in the aftermath of World War II and most commonly used in the cold war, security has come to mean, in this age of American imperialis…
Law and Social Enquiry
Journal Article Law and Social Enquiry: Case Studies of Research (Studies of Law in Social Change and Development, No. 5) Get access Law and Social Enquiry: Case Studies of Research (Studies of Law in Social Change and Development, No. 5). RobinLuckham (ed.). Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies; New York: International Center for Law in Development, 1981. Pp. 289. Philip S.C. Lewis Philip S.C. Lewis *Senior Research Fellow, All Sou…
Foreign powers and militarism in the horn of Africa
A central argument of this paper is that the conflicts in the Horn can be understood as a collision of geographical cycles: those established by the working out of local historical processes in the Horn; and those by the working out of historical processes at the global level, including crises in the international economy and the new Cold War. Weapons have been one of the crucial links between these cycles. They have also been central in the emer…
Foreign powers and militarism in the horn of Africa
The first part of this article, which appeared in ROAPE 30, set an explanation of the new militarisation of the Horn in two, interacting contexts: the long history of struggles between states in the Horn for hegemony, and the struggle for world hegemony that constitutes the New Cold War. This part offers a systematic review of the record of involvement of the USA and USSR in the Horn over the last 20 years and seeks to uncover the (different) mot…
Armament Culture
Militarisation and the New International Anarchy
(1984). Militarisation and the New International Anarchy. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 351-373
Anarchy or Transformation? Scenarios for Change
Nothing sharpens debate like crisis. The analyses presented in this Bulletin call attention to the interconnections between recession and the global arms race, between the crises in North-South and East-West relations. It is no longer possible to take decisions on any major global issue without considering how it relates to other items on the global agenda. We live in a state of interdependent disequilibrium
The Military, Militarization and Democratization in Africa
The studies of African military establishments that appeared from the late 1960s, after the first wave of coups, were very much the products of their time. The theories of modernization and political development that were their starting point were the ideas of an epoch: that of decolonization, nation-building, internationalization of capital, consolidation of U.S. hegemony, and globalization of American social science. They are of interest now be…
Dilemmas of Military Disengagement and Democratization in Africa
This article contends that one of the first tasks of new African democracies is to bring military establishments under democratic control. Although it might seem armies are now in retreat from politics, this has been ‘demilitarization by default’, resulting from economic and fiscal retrenchment and massive cuts in external military assistance, rather than from considered policy choices. Those attempting to tame the armed forces permanently face a…
Crafting democratic control over the military
This is the second part of an extended article; Part I, 'Democracy and the Military: An Epitaph for Frankenstein's Monster?' appeared in the previous issue of this journal. Part II takes as its starting point the theoretical analysis developed in Part I and applies it to three empirical cases, South Korea, Chile and Ghana. Behind the superficial similarity between the way the transition to democracy has been 'crafted' in the three countries, ther…
Democracy and the military
This article contends that the relationship between the military and democracy is inherently problematic, even in advanced democracies, but more so in developing countries, including those where transitions to democracy have recently taken place. These transitions have usually been speeded by the fracturing of authoritarian regimes and their military and security structures (which are seldom completely monolithic). An analytical model illustrates…
Popular versus liberal democracy in Nicaragua and Tanzania
This article takes issue with those analyses of 'developmental democracy' which treat popular participation as a clamorous inconvenience to be managed in the interests of economic efficiency. Instead it asks what follows from prioritizing participation both as a defining feature of democracy, and as an integral part of what is meant by development. The analysis is developed in two parts. The first contrasts the narratives of popular and of libera…
Globalization and/or Democratization
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