Tim Glawion
Biographic Data
| ID | 355522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Glawion |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Glawion |
| SIGNATURE | GLAWION T |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Institute for Global and Area Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5194-8983 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Disconnected development in the Central African Republic: Why there is no trickle down nor building up in the world’s poorest state
Living Up to Popular Expectations during Intervention: Filling Voids and Confronting Spoilers in the Central African Republic and Beyond
The scholarly consensus has moved from asking if to how peacekeeping can be successful. Nevertheless, from Afghanistan to Mali, popular dissatisfaction is bringing international interventions to a dramatic end, while new and more ruthless foreign actors are stepping in. I suggest tying peacebuilding studies back to what really matters: fulfilling the expectations of those affected by violence. To do so, I study and compare four local security are…
Quality, Access, and Voice in African Studies Publishing: Smoothing the Path to Bigger Changes
Rebel governance or governance in rebel territory? Extraction and services in Ndélé, Central African republic
Rebel governance assumes a symbiotic relationship between coercion and public goods provision. However, in the rebel-held town of Ndélé, Central African Republic, we find that governance happens in rebel-held territory, but rarely by rebels. Rebels allowed other actors to provide services for the people only when this did not hinder rebels extracting political clout and economic benefit from the people and their lands. We show how rebels’ extract…
Studying insecurity from relative safety - Dealing with methodological blind spots
Qualitative empirical enquiries into dynamics of security and insecurity often include a blind spot that bear theoretical ramifications because only those areas and respondents that allow for relatively safe fieldwork are studied. To transparently articulate the spheres of projection that creep into our knowledge production, we propose a distinction between inner and outer circles as highly fluid but separate geographical, socio-political and met…
Cross-case patterns of security production in hybrid political orders: Their shapes, ordering practices, and paradoxical outcomes
Examinations of substate security and everyday peace in hybrid political orders are mostly limited to single-case studies or statistical analyses. Seldom are qualitative methods applied with a comparative aim that can unveil patterns of security production. I attempt such an approach by studying 12 cases across the Central African Republic, Haiti, Somaliland, and South Sudan. I investigate (1) where hybrid interactions take place, (2) how they ha…
Response to Jonathan Fisher’s review of The Security Arena in Africa: Local Order-Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan
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The Security Arena in Africa: Local Order-Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan
The labels 'state fragility' and 'civil war' suggest that security within several African countries has broken down. As Tim Glawion observes, however, while people do experience insecurity in some parts of conflict-affected countries, in other areas they live in relative security. Conducting in-depth field-research between 2014 and 2018, The Security Arena in Africa is based on first-hand insights into South Sudan and the Central African Republic…
Handle with Care! A Qualitative Comparison of the Fragile States Index's Bottom Three Countries: Central African Republic, Somalia and South Sudan
For the past four years, the Fund for Peace has ranked the Central African Republic, Somalia and South Sudan as the ‘most fragile states’ in the world, in its annual Fragile States Index (FSI). The three countries’ almost identical scores suggest comparability; however, critics raise concerns about the FSI's data aggregation methods, and its conflation of causes and consequences. This article treads the uncharted path of unpacking the empirical r…
Ruptures revoked: Why the Central African Republic's unprecedented crisis has not altered deep-seated patterns of governance
The Central African Republic experienced unprecedented violence between 2012 and 2014. We analyse three recent ruptures that developed as a result of this crisis, suggesting a break with the country's past. First, the Séléka rebellion that started in 2012; second, the establishment of a robust UN Peacekeeping mission in 2014; and finally, the democratic election of a civilian president in 2016. However, three deep-rooted patterns of governance ha…
Conflict, Mediation, and the African State: How Foreign Support and Democracy Lead to Strong Political Order
Anarchy and war reigning throughout Africa threaten to bring about a “failed” continent. This article, on the contrary, argues that to understand the evolution of African state systems, political order should be defined as a conflict mediation institution and process. Through a quantitative analysis, this paper challenges Charles Tilly's notion that interstate war helps build states and challenges the idea that foreign support retards state build…
Rebel governance or governance in rebel territory? Extraction and services in Ndélé, Central African republic
Rebel governance assumes a symbiotic relationship between coercion and public goods provision. However, in the rebel-held town of Ndélé, Central African Republic, we find that governance happens in rebel-held territory, but rarely by rebels. Rebels allowed other actors to provide services for the people only when this did not hinder rebels extracting political clout and economic benefit from the people and their lands. We show how rebels’ extract…
Ruptures revoked: Why the Central African Republic's unprecedented crisis has not altered deep-seated patterns of governance
The Central African Republic experienced unprecedented violence between 2012 and 2014. We analyse three recent ruptures that developed as a result of this crisis, suggesting a break with the country's past. First, the Séléka rebellion that started in 2012; second, the establishment of a robust UN Peacekeeping mission in 2014; and finally, the democratic election of a civilian president in 2016. However, three deep-rooted patterns of governance ha…
Studying insecurity from relative safety - Dealing with methodological blind spots
Qualitative empirical enquiries into dynamics of security and insecurity often include a blind spot that bear theoretical ramifications because only those areas and respondents that allow for relatively safe fieldwork are studied. To transparently articulate the spheres of projection that creep into our knowledge production, we propose a distinction between inner and outer circles as highly fluid but separate geographical, socio-political and met…
Living Up to Popular Expectations during Intervention: Filling Voids and Confronting Spoilers in the Central African Republic and Beyond
The scholarly consensus has moved from asking if to how peacekeeping can be successful. Nevertheless, from Afghanistan to Mali, popular dissatisfaction is bringing international interventions to a dramatic end, while new and more ruthless foreign actors are stepping in. I suggest tying peacebuilding studies back to what really matters: fulfilling the expectations of those affected by violence. To do so, I study and compare four local security are…
Cross-case patterns of security production in hybrid political orders: Their shapes, ordering practices, and paradoxical outcomes
Examinations of substate security and everyday peace in hybrid political orders are mostly limited to single-case studies or statistical analyses. Seldom are qualitative methods applied with a comparative aim that can unveil patterns of security production. I attempt such an approach by studying 12 cases across the Central African Republic, Haiti, Somaliland, and South Sudan. I investigate (1) where hybrid interactions take place, (2) how they ha…
Conflict, Mediation, and the African State: How Foreign Support and Democracy Lead to Strong Political Order
Anarchy and war reigning throughout Africa threaten to bring about a “failed” continent. This article, on the contrary, argues that to understand the evolution of African state systems, political order should be defined as a conflict mediation institution and process. Through a quantitative analysis, this paper challenges Charles Tilly's notion that interstate war helps build states and challenges the idea that foreign support retards state build…
Ruptures revoked: Why the Central African Republic's unprecedented crisis has not altered deep-seated patterns of governance
The Central African Republic experienced unprecedented violence between 2012 and 2014. We analyse three recent ruptures that developed as a result of this crisis, suggesting a break with the country's past. First, the Séléka rebellion that started in 2012; second, the establishment of a robust UN Peacekeeping mission in 2014; and finally, the democratic election of a civilian president in 2016. However, three deep-rooted patterns of governance ha…
Handle with Care! A Qualitative Comparison of the Fragile States Index's Bottom Three Countries: Central African Republic, Somalia and South Sudan
For the past four years, the Fund for Peace has ranked the Central African Republic, Somalia and South Sudan as the ‘most fragile states’ in the world, in its annual Fragile States Index (FSI). The three countries’ almost identical scores suggest comparability; however, critics raise concerns about the FSI's data aggregation methods, and its conflation of causes and consequences. This article treads the uncharted path of unpacking the empirical r…
The Security Arena in Africa: Local Order-Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan
The labels 'state fragility' and 'civil war' suggest that security within several African countries has broken down. As Tim Glawion observes, however, while people do experience insecurity in some parts of conflict-affected countries, in other areas they live in relative security. Conducting in-depth field-research between 2014 and 2018, The Security Arena in Africa is based on first-hand insights into South Sudan and the Central African Republic…
Response to Jonathan Fisher’s review of The Security Arena in Africa: Local Order-Making in the Central African Republic, Somaliland, and South Sudan
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Cross-case patterns of security production in hybrid political orders: Their shapes, ordering practices, and paradoxical outcomes
Examinations of substate security and everyday peace in hybrid political orders are mostly limited to single-case studies or statistical analyses. Seldom are qualitative methods applied with a comparative aim that can unveil patterns of security production. I attempt such an approach by studying 12 cases across the Central African Republic, Haiti, Somaliland, and South Sudan. I investigate (1) where hybrid interactions take place, (2) how they ha…
Rebel governance or governance in rebel territory? Extraction and services in Ndélé, Central African republic
Rebel governance assumes a symbiotic relationship between coercion and public goods provision. However, in the rebel-held town of Ndélé, Central African Republic, we find that governance happens in rebel-held territory, but rarely by rebels. Rebels allowed other actors to provide services for the people only when this did not hinder rebels extracting political clout and economic benefit from the people and their lands. We show how rebels’ extract…
Studying insecurity from relative safety - Dealing with methodological blind spots
Qualitative empirical enquiries into dynamics of security and insecurity often include a blind spot that bear theoretical ramifications because only those areas and respondents that allow for relatively safe fieldwork are studied. To transparently articulate the spheres of projection that creep into our knowledge production, we propose a distinction between inner and outer circles as highly fluid but separate geographical, socio-political and met…
Quality, Access, and Voice in African Studies Publishing: Smoothing the Path to Bigger Changes
Living Up to Popular Expectations during Intervention: Filling Voids and Confronting Spoilers in the Central African Republic and Beyond
The scholarly consensus has moved from asking if to how peacekeeping can be successful. Nevertheless, from Afghanistan to Mali, popular dissatisfaction is bringing international interventions to a dramatic end, while new and more ruthless foreign actors are stepping in. I suggest tying peacebuilding studies back to what really matters: fulfilling the expectations of those affected by violence. To do so, I study and compare four local security are…
Disconnected development in the Central African Republic: Why there is no trickle down nor building up in the world’s poorest state
Political science (10 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (8 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Development economics (3 works)