Natalie Andrews
Biographic Data
| ID | 176963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie Andrews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie |
| FAMILY NAME | Andrews |
| SIGNATURE | ANDREWS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3572-2316 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Rethinking Security Governance in Africa: Hybrid Orders, External Power, and the Fragmentation of Authority
As African Security enters a new phase of editorial leadership, it does so at a moment when shifting patterns of conflict, contested forms of governance, geopolitical competition, and technological
Meaningful stakeholder engagement as a tool for accountability in the mineral industry
Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement (MSE) is increasingly institutionalized in Ghana’s mining governance, shaped by UNGPs and the EU CSDDD. • In practice, engagement remains procedural and ritualistic , limiting answerability, responsiveness, and enforceability. • Elite-mediated consultation (via chiefs/elders) systematically marginalizes women, youth, farmers, and other affected groups. • Corporate governance culture and firm origin shape openness…
Goodbye and Welcome: Another New Dawn for African Security ’s Sustained Scholarship and Inclusive Excellence
Pedagogical diversity, international political economy and development studies: Exploring global trends in academic dependency
Within higher education contexts, the social media call that #RepresentationMatters signals the need to ensure that students encounter a diverse range of scholars and that practices contributing to the exclusion of people are eradicated. This call underpins the pilot project that informs this paper, which sought to explore the nature and scope of disciplinary or pedagogical diversity in two social science disciplines by examining the contents of …
Transforming global critical minerals governance: Is a green new international economic order possible
As states scramble, albeit at different speeds and with different degrees of conviction, to move to greener energy sources, the demand for critical minerals will inevitably increase over the coming decades. How critical minerals are governed is a crucial question at multiple levels. Here, we focus on the global level. We first consider the lessons from a previous global transformative initiative, namely the New International Economic Order (NIEO)…
Are We There Yet? Revisiting the Old and New Postcolonialism(s) in IR
Postcolonialism stands as a synergy between new and old sets of literature that have come together unevenly and in different ways. Postcolonial interventions have contended with IR core themes over the past four decades. Over the last two decades, there has also been a boom in the scholarship that examines non-Western IR, with some emerging from the contributions of critical theorists who sought to question the dominance of mainstream perspective…
Multi-stakeholder dialogue and company-community relations in Ghana's oil and gas sector
Counterterrorism, Post-War Governance, and the Linkages Between Insecurity and Tax Compliance in Africa
The Dynamics of the Securitization of African Borderlands, Inter-State Relations, and the Role of non-State Actors in Security Governance
Rebalancing Securitization and Militarization in Africa? Understanding Emerging Patterns and Dynamics in an Era of Shifting Global Geopolitics
Climate Change and Cultural Security, Governance, Health and Collective Security in West Africa
Transnational capital and the scramble for land and profit: Financialization, agrarian development, and resource conflict in Africa
Gender, land grabbing and agrarian livelihoods: Contradictory gendered outcomes of land transactions in Ghana
A New Era for African Security: Sustaining and Expanding Opportunities for Sustained Scholarship and Inclusive Excellence
Security Threats, African Agency, and the Role (and Weaponization) of the Media
Can Voluntary Business and Human Rights Norms be Effective? Exploring a Multidimensional Perspective of Norm Effectiveness in Africa
Although the concept of human rights was rarely visible in corporate documents prior to the 2000s, many corporations today publicly espouse strong commitments to respect human rights due to normative mechanisms such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) introduced in 2008. Contributing to ongoing scholarly discussions around the known gap between human rights rhetoric and performance, this article draws upon the global…
Factors influencing the creation of high-impact oil and gas geophysical seismic cutlines in an ecologically-sensitive landscape in northeastern British Columbia, Canada
Oil, fish, and livelihoods: Narratives of hydrocarbon benefits and gendered relations in Ghana
The Persistent Poverty of Diversity in International Relations and the Emergence of a Critical Canon
Discussions about diversifying the discipline of international relations (IR) are often met with limited evidence in practice. Employing the concepts of epistemic oppression and academic dependency, this article contributes to filling the existing knowledge gap by examining what the pedagogical practices of IR professors, particularly in terms of syllabi design and content, tell us about the state of disciplinary diversity. The article examines r…
How global norms matter: Norm diffusion and the tangled web of localization in Ghana’s extractive industry
A critical scholarship within the International Relations and Comparative Politics scholarship continues to challenge the conventional view that upheld the extractive sector in developing countries as the space where global technocratic norms take root irrespective of socio-economic bargains and contestations. Through an in-depth account of the politics that augment the implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the P…
Decolonizing International Relations and Development Studies: What's in a buzzword
Over the past decade, there has been a new "decolonial turn," albeit less related than before to land and political independence. "To decolonize" is now associated with something less tangible and often under-defined. We argue that scholars, especially Western ones, should avoid depoliticizing the expression "decolonizing" by using it as a buzzword. Scholars and policymakers should use the expression only if it is closely related to the political…
Oil, fisheries and coastal communities: A review of impacts on the environment, livelihoods, space and governance
A quarter of global oil production comes from offshore fields and about 60% of internationally-traded oil travels by tankers. The relationship between oil, fisheries, and coastal communities is documented primarily through case studies in individual jurisdictions and via the impacts of oil spills. Yet, the implications of oil development for fisheries and coastal communities are much broader. This study provides an extensive review of the effects…
Oil, power and social differentiation: A political ecology of hydrocarbon extraction in Ghana
While there is scholarship focused on the nexus between resource extraction and development, further examination is needed of how the harms and benefits of extraction are differentiated among different stakeholders based on factors such as their access to power, authority over decision-making, social status,and gender. This article combines theoretical insights from assemblage thinking and political ecology to unpack the intertwined range of acto…
A developmental paradox? The “dark forces” against corporate social responsibility in Ghana’s extractive industry
Extractive industries transparency initiative and the politics of institutional innovation in Ghana's oil industry
Energy Governance, Transnational Rules, and the Resource Curse: Exploring the Effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (Eiti)
Transnational standards for disclosure have become a defining feature of global governance and sound economic development, yet little is known about their effectiveness. This study statistically explores the efficacy of such standards for the important case of the \nExtractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an international non-governmental organization which maintains a voluntary standard for revenue transparency in the extractive in…
Decolonizing International Relations and Development Studies: What's in a buzzword
Over the past decade, there has been a new "decolonial turn," albeit less related than before to land and political independence. "To decolonize" is now associated with something less tangible and often under-defined. We argue that scholars, especially Western ones, should avoid depoliticizing the expression "decolonizing" by using it as a buzzword. Scholars and policymakers should use the expression only if it is closely related to the political…
Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy
Extractive industries transparency initiative and the politics of institutional innovation in Ghana's oil industry
A Post-development Hoax? (Re)-examining the Past, Present and Future of Development Studies
Because of the absence of evidence to show for its utility, the notion of ‘development’ has been fraught with many debates over the years. This paper is concerned with re-examining the future of development studies, based on its past and present trajectories. The argument here is that development may be useful if its norms and practices become context-specific and are made to benefit its purported beneficiaries. The chronology spans the period af…
What/who is still missing in International Relations scholarship? Situating Africa as an agent in IR theorising
This paper engages with non-Western, specifically African, scholarship and insight with the goal of highlighting the importance of African contributions to IR theorising. We highlight the Western dominance in IR theorising and examine the inadequacy of the major analytical constructs provided by established IR theory in capturing and explaining shifting reality in Africa. We argue that African insights, experience and ideas present a challenge to…
Bringing the state back in again? The emerging developmental state in Africa’s energy sector
Depoliticisation and ahistoricism of transparency and accountability via global norms: Assessing the Eiti in Ghana and Nigeria
While extant assessments of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) have focused on institutional and regulatory regimes, such evaluations have largely tended to depoliticise institutions. This article argues that a more robust understanding of EITI processes must give central attention to historically situated political structures and power relations that continue to shape the present institutional quality/capacity of extractive…
Security for whom? Analysing hybrid security governance in Africa's extractive sectors
In this article, we analyse the factors underpinning the shift towards hybrid security governance in Africa. Extant scholarship largely attributes this shift to broader global processes, such as histories of colonialism, neoliberalism and transformations in global governance, which have served to legitimize the role of private authority in security provision around sites of resource extraction. Our analysis seeks to understand the relative and re…
Digging for Survival and/or Justice? The Drivers of Illegal Mining Activities in Western Ghana
In Ghana, an artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activity called galamsey is considered illegal because operators have not formally registered their sites with the government. Because of recent cases of the involvement of non-Ghanaian nationals in this activity, the government has established the Inter-Ministerial Task Force Against Illegal Mining to curb its growth. However, this endeavor has failed to account for how the absence of socioecon…
The Persistent Poverty of Diversity in International Relations and the Emergence of a Critical Canon
Discussions about diversifying the discipline of international relations (IR) are often met with limited evidence in practice. Employing the concepts of epistemic oppression and academic dependency, this article contributes to filling the existing knowledge gap by examining what the pedagogical practices of IR professors, particularly in terms of syllabi design and content, tell us about the state of disciplinary diversity. The article examines r…
How global norms matter: Norm diffusion and the tangled web of localization in Ghana’s extractive industry
A critical scholarship within the International Relations and Comparative Politics scholarship continues to challenge the conventional view that upheld the extractive sector in developing countries as the space where global technocratic norms take root irrespective of socio-economic bargains and contestations. Through an in-depth account of the politics that augment the implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the P…
Transnational capital and the scramble for land and profit: Financialization, agrarian development, and resource conflict in Africa
Gender, land grabbing and agrarian livelihoods: Contradictory gendered outcomes of land transactions in Ghana
People come and go but we don’t see anything”: How Might Social Research Contribute to Social Change
In different fields of study, scholars interested in making a positive difference in the lives of their research communities insist on engaging policy makers and activists in their work. Paulo Freire, one of the most widely known public intellectuals, asserts that praxis enables critical thought, awareness and collaborative action for emancipation for oppressed groups. Within this framework, our contribution aims to provoke thinking on the need f…
Normative spaces and the UN Global Compact for transnational corporations: The norm diffusion paradox
Multi-stakeholder dialogue and company-community relations in Ghana's oil and gas sector
Oil, fish, and livelihoods: Narratives of hydrocarbon benefits and gendered relations in Ghana
Beyond the Ivory Tower: A Case for ‘Praxeological Deconstructionism’ as a ‘Third Way’ in IR Theorising
International Relations ( ir ) scholars and students are often presented with four (sometimes five) ‘great debates’ that characterise the ‘state of the discipline’. However, Robert Cox’s 1981 article in Millennium simplified the discussion into two binaries: problem-solving theory vs critical theory. While this configuration has been influential, it has inhibited the reflexivity, complexity, as well as the multidisciplinary nature of the discipli…
Telling Tales of Conformity and Mutual Interests: The Limits of a (Neo)Liberal International Order
Nations have no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests.-Lord Palmerston, British Foreign Minister, 1846-51Institutions have minimal influence on state behaviour and thus hold little promise for promoting stability in the post-Cold War world.1International relations is difficult subject of study, due to the intricacy of myriad issues left unresolved by practitioners and/or theorists. Primary to these issues is the concept of power …
Telling Tales of Conformity and Mutual Interests: The Limits of a (Neo)Liberal International Order
Nations have no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests.-Lord Palmerston, British Foreign Minister, 1846-51Institutions have minimal influence on state behaviour and thus hold little promise for promoting stability in the post-Cold War world.1International relations is difficult subject of study, due to the intricacy of myriad issues left unresolved by practitioners and/or theorists. Primary to these issues is the concept of power …
Imperialist Canada
Beyond the Ivory Tower: A Case for ‘Praxeological Deconstructionism’ as a ‘Third Way’ in IR Theorising
International Relations ( ir ) scholars and students are often presented with four (sometimes five) ‘great debates’ that characterise the ‘state of the discipline’. However, Robert Cox’s 1981 article in Millennium simplified the discussion into two binaries: problem-solving theory vs critical theory. While this configuration has been influential, it has inhibited the reflexivity, complexity, as well as the multidisciplinary nature of the discipli…
A Post-development Hoax? (Re)-examining the Past, Present and Future of Development Studies
Because of the absence of evidence to show for its utility, the notion of ‘development’ has been fraught with many debates over the years. This paper is concerned with re-examining the future of development studies, based on its past and present trajectories. The argument here is that development may be useful if its norms and practices become context-specific and are made to benefit its purported beneficiaries. The chronology spans the period af…
Does transparency matter? Evaluating the governance impacts of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (Eiti) in Azerbaijan and Liberia
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect: Africa’s Development Beyond 2015
Digging for Survival and/or Justice? The Drivers of Illegal Mining Activities in Western Ghana
In Ghana, an artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activity called galamsey is considered illegal because operators have not formally registered their sites with the government. Because of recent cases of the involvement of non-Ghanaian nationals in this activity, the government has established the Inter-Ministerial Task Force Against Illegal Mining to curb its growth. However, this endeavor has failed to account for how the absence of socioecon…
Energy Governance, Transnational Rules, and the Resource Curse: Exploring the Effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (Eiti)
Transnational standards for disclosure have become a defining feature of global governance and sound economic development, yet little is known about their effectiveness. This study statistically explores the efficacy of such standards for the important case of the \nExtractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), an international non-governmental organization which maintains a voluntary standard for revenue transparency in the extractive in…
Normative spaces and the UN Global Compact for transnational corporations: The norm diffusion paradox
What/who is still missing in International Relations scholarship? Situating Africa as an agent in IR theorising
This paper engages with non-Western, specifically African, scholarship and insight with the goal of highlighting the importance of African contributions to IR theorising. We highlight the Western dominance in IR theorising and examine the inadequacy of the major analytical constructs provided by established IR theory in capturing and explaining shifting reality in Africa. We argue that African insights, experience and ideas present a challenge to…
Colonial Extractions: Race and Canadian Mining in Contemporary Africa, by Paula Butler
Reviewed by: Nathan Andrews, Queen's University, [email protected] is no dearth of books on Canadian foreign policy toward Africa. Some recent examples include David Black's and in the New Millennium (2015), Edward Akuffo's Canadian Foreign Policy in (2012), and Canada-Africa Relations, edited by the Centre for International Governance Innovation's president Rohinton Medhora and Yiagadeesen Samy (2013). However, missing from these di…
Bringing the state back in again? The emerging developmental state in Africa’s energy sector
Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy
People come and go but we don’t see anything”: How Might Social Research Contribute to Social Change
In different fields of study, scholars interested in making a positive difference in the lives of their research communities insist on engaging policy makers and activists in their work. Paulo Freire, one of the most widely known public intellectuals, asserts that praxis enables critical thought, awareness and collaborative action for emancipation for oppressed groups. Within this framework, our contribution aims to provoke thinking on the need f…
An institutional assessment of the public interest and accountability committee (Piac) in Ghana’s oil and gas sector
Ghana’s Petroleum Revenue Management Act 815 (amended to Act 893 in 2015) established the Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) in 2011 with the mandate to ensure accountability and transparency in the management and usage of oil and gas revenue. This paper critically examines the activities and operations of the PIAC from 2011 vis-à-vis its legally reposed mandate. It points to severe deficit in accountability but improvements in t…
A developmental paradox? The “dark forces” against corporate social responsibility in Ghana’s extractive industry
Extractive industries transparency initiative and the politics of institutional innovation in Ghana's oil industry
Depoliticisation and ahistoricism of transparency and accountability via global norms: Assessing the Eiti in Ghana and Nigeria
While extant assessments of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) have focused on institutional and regulatory regimes, such evaluations have largely tended to depoliticise institutions. This article argues that a more robust understanding of EITI processes must give central attention to historically situated political structures and power relations that continue to shape the present institutional quality/capacity of extractive…
Security for whom? Analysing hybrid security governance in Africa's extractive sectors
In this article, we analyse the factors underpinning the shift towards hybrid security governance in Africa. Extant scholarship largely attributes this shift to broader global processes, such as histories of colonialism, neoliberalism and transformations in global governance, which have served to legitimize the role of private authority in security provision around sites of resource extraction. Our analysis seeks to understand the relative and re…
Oil, fisheries and coastal communities: A review of impacts on the environment, livelihoods, space and governance
A quarter of global oil production comes from offshore fields and about 60% of internationally-traded oil travels by tankers. The relationship between oil, fisheries, and coastal communities is documented primarily through case studies in individual jurisdictions and via the impacts of oil spills. Yet, the implications of oil development for fisheries and coastal communities are much broader. This study provides an extensive review of the effects…
Oil, power and social differentiation: A political ecology of hydrocarbon extraction in Ghana
While there is scholarship focused on the nexus between resource extraction and development, further examination is needed of how the harms and benefits of extraction are differentiated among different stakeholders based on factors such as their access to power, authority over decision-making, social status,and gender. This article combines theoretical insights from assemblage thinking and political ecology to unpack the intertwined range of acto…
Oil, fish, and livelihoods: Narratives of hydrocarbon benefits and gendered relations in Ghana
The Persistent Poverty of Diversity in International Relations and the Emergence of a Critical Canon
Discussions about diversifying the discipline of international relations (IR) are often met with limited evidence in practice. Employing the concepts of epistemic oppression and academic dependency, this article contributes to filling the existing knowledge gap by examining what the pedagogical practices of IR professors, particularly in terms of syllabi design and content, tell us about the state of disciplinary diversity. The article examines r…
How global norms matter: Norm diffusion and the tangled web of localization in Ghana’s extractive industry
A critical scholarship within the International Relations and Comparative Politics scholarship continues to challenge the conventional view that upheld the extractive sector in developing countries as the space where global technocratic norms take root irrespective of socio-economic bargains and contestations. Through an in-depth account of the politics that augment the implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the P…
Decolonizing International Relations and Development Studies: What's in a buzzword
Over the past decade, there has been a new "decolonial turn," albeit less related than before to land and political independence. "To decolonize" is now associated with something less tangible and often under-defined. We argue that scholars, especially Western ones, should avoid depoliticizing the expression "decolonizing" by using it as a buzzword. Scholars and policymakers should use the expression only if it is closely related to the political…
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