Mandy Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mandy Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mandy |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bradford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
What Israel’s Arrest of Palestinian Booksellers in Jerusalem Tells Us About Its Goals
Behind the Big Blue Gate
The Kenyon Institute based in Shaykh Jarrah has a long history. Established during the British occupation of Jerusalem in 1919, it was an exemplar of the marriage of academia and empire. In its early days, as the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, it was biblical, British, and very imperial, but this outlook and reputation changed over time. This essay by a former director (January 2012–December 2019) provides a brief history of the inst…
Fanning the Flames or a Troubling Truth? The Politics of Comparison in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
The politics of comparison in the Israel-Palestine conflict is largely encapsulated in the use of two analogies. The first is the ‘Holocaust-Hitler analogy’ used by Israel and its supporters, which portrays Israel as a beleaguered nation surrounded by Nazi sympathisers who seek to destroy it as the Jewish homeland. The second is the ‘apartheid analogy’, which compares the conflict to that of Apartheid-era South Africa and portrays Palestinians as…
Richard Falk
Richard Falk's quest to combine academic scholarship with political activism is witnessed throughout his lifework, but perhaps especially so during his tenure as United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, a position he held from 2008 to 2014. Falk is a vocal critic of Israel's occupation and a staunch supporter of Palestinian selfdetermination, positions that have drawn strong condemnatio…
The West’ and ‘the rest’ in international interventions
This special issue was provoked by the desire to critically interrogate the frequently made Eurocentric assertions by many politicians and academics that ‘the West’ and ‘the rest’ are fundamentally different in terms of their aims and methods of intervention. Bringing together scholars of intervention with regional experts on China, Russia, the Gulf Arab states and Turkey, detailed empirical knowledge is used to analyse current interventionist pr…
Aid intervention' in the occupied Palestinian territory
This contribution uses an expanded conceptualisation of intervention based on the understanding of it as an attempt to influence, negatively or positively, the political context/direction of a country/situation. It does this through the concept of ‘aid intervention’ in the conflict-context of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT). Based on over 12 years of research experience of aid donors in this context, this contribution compares the stated…
The Peacebuilding–Counterinsurgency Nexus in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
This chapter argues that there is a nexus between western donor-led peace building and counter-insurgency: both promote forms of governance, development, and security to instil acquiescence and control. This is explored in two ways: first, through an analysis of the philosophy and practices of counter-insurgency and western peace building; and second, through an analysis of western peace-building strategies in the occupied Palestinian territory (…
Killing the Zombie Peace and Building a New Movement
The prospects for a just and sustainable peace are dire. The Oslo framework and the two-state solution are no longer fit for purpose (if indeed they ever were). And yet it is entirely possible that the current situation could limp on for a while longer – like a zombie that refuses to die. This short opinion piece argues that, in this context, a new movement and a new strategy are urgently required
Statebuilding in Palestine
Peacebuilding as counterinsurgency in the occupied Palestinian territory
It is often suggested that Western peacebuilding in the occupied Palestinian territory has failed because it has not delivered a viable Palestinian state. But if peacebuilding is reinterpreted as a form of counterinsurgency whose goal is to secure a population, then it has not failed – in fact, on the contrary, it has been quite successful. This article therefore critically evaluates the idea and practice of peacebuilding as counterinsurgency by …
Israel-Palestine after Oslo
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is one of the world's most protracted, despite an over 20-year donor-sponsored peace process instituted after the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel an
Creating a counterhegemonic praxis
Despite over 20 years of peace process, Israel’s occupation, colonisation and repression continue, and the political and geographical fragmentation of the Palestinian people is proceeding apace. In this context, re-conceptualisations of the conflict and alternative visions of the future will take on increased urgency—both in Israel and Palestine. This article therefore focuses on two activist groups in Israel— Zochrot and Boycott from Within —eng…
Decolonizing Palestinian Political Economy
The volume brings together cutting-edge political economy analyses of the Palestinian people: those living in the occupied territory of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, those living within Israel, and re
Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding
Developmental politics in transition
It is highly unusual for me to quote Paul Collier (semi-)approvingly, but I am going to begin this book review by doing so. In 2006, I attended a conference in Berlin on private sector development
The iron first of liberal intervention inside the velvet glove of Kantian idealism
We argue that Burke's theory of security cosmopolitanism suffers from a number of problems. These include the fact he operates with a simplistic account of current cosmopolitan thinking on security; he purports to offer a radical critique of state-centric approaches to security, but his analysis still privileges the state; he argues for security from below but ends up advocating governance by elites and experts; he offers an inadequate theory of …
Reconstructing Conflict
Completing the Circle
After nearly 20 years of negotiations and peacebuilding, Palestinians are no nearer to self-determination. This article explains this failure through an analysis of the context and peacebuilding framework created as a product of the Oslo Accords and the assumptions of Western donors about how peace would be achieved. It argues that the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) is subject to an assemblage of colonial practices – some of which are the p…
Introduction
This special issue critically interrogates the current practices of international ‘peacebuilding’ interventions and ‘peace missions’ to highlight the violence that inheres in their attempts to enfo
Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding
This book examines the much-neglected question of what constitutes a political economy of peace after civil conflicts and who controls it.The advent of the UN's Peacebuilding Commission signals a growing international interest in reconstruction during and after conflict. It is original in that it tackles the question of what constitutes a political economy of peace. Currently, how it might be constructed is either assumed to be self-evident and u…
Creating ‘Partners for Peace’
The Palestinian Authority (PA) offers an interesting case study of statebuilding in a conflict-country context. Created as an interim administration in the West Bank and Gaza in 1994, the PA has been hampered by the statebuilding framework enshrined in the Oslo Accords, its lack of sovereignty, the lack of final status negotiations, and the ‘partners for peace’ paradigm which is an attempt by donors and international organisations to support who …
The end of history and the last liberal peacebuilder
In the April 2010 Review of International Studies , Roland Paris argued that liberal peacebuilding is the only viable solution for rebuilding war-torn societies, and supported this by assailing critics of the liberal peace. In this article we challenge four key claims made by Paris: imposed and consensual peacebuilding are different experiences; there are no echoes of imperialism in modern peacebuilding; there is no alternative to the capitalist …
The Power of ‘Shock and Awe’
This article charts the development of the Palestinian Authority from its creation as an interim authority under the Oslo Accords towards becoming a failed (quasi-)state. By 2009 – 15 years after its inception and ten years after the proposed final status negotiations – the PA was split between a criminalized isolated entity in Gaza under the control of Hamas and an internationally recognized ‘caretaker government’ in the West Bank under the cont…
Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding
The book provides critical perspectives that reach beyond the technical approaches of international financial institutions and proponents of the liberal peace formula. It investigates political econom
Civil War and Its Discontents
The end of history and the last liberal peacebuilder
In the April 2010 Review of International Studies , Roland Paris argued that liberal peacebuilding is the only viable solution for rebuilding war-torn societies, and supported this by assailing critics of the liberal peace. In this article we challenge four key claims made by Paris: imposed and consensual peacebuilding are different experiences; there are no echoes of imperialism in modern peacebuilding; there is no alternative to the capitalist …
Peacebuilding as counterinsurgency in the occupied Palestinian territory
It is often suggested that Western peacebuilding in the occupied Palestinian territory has failed because it has not delivered a viable Palestinian state. But if peacebuilding is reinterpreted as a form of counterinsurgency whose goal is to secure a population, then it has not failed – in fact, on the contrary, it has been quite successful. This article therefore critically evaluates the idea and practice of peacebuilding as counterinsurgency by …
Building Democracy in Palestine
The victory of Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation, in the January 2006 elections for the Palestinian Authority, was greeted with dismay by the international community, which responded by cutting off aid. This article seeks to understand why Hamas was elected, as well as the international community's response, through an analysis of the liberal peace thesis. This thesis states that democracies do not go to war with one another, thus it was…
Completing the Circle
After nearly 20 years of negotiations and peacebuilding, Palestinians are no nearer to self-determination. This article explains this failure through an analysis of the context and peacebuilding framework created as a product of the Oslo Accords and the assumptions of Western donors about how peace would be achieved. It argues that the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) is subject to an assemblage of colonial practices – some of which are the p…
The Power of ‘Shock and Awe’
This article charts the development of the Palestinian Authority from its creation as an interim authority under the Oslo Accords towards becoming a failed (quasi-)state. By 2009 – 15 years after its inception and ten years after the proposed final status negotiations – the PA was split between a criminalized isolated entity in Gaza under the control of Hamas and an internationally recognized ‘caretaker government’ in the West Bank under the cont…
Creating ‘Partners for Peace’
The Palestinian Authority (PA) offers an interesting case study of statebuilding in a conflict-country context. Created as an interim administration in the West Bank and Gaza in 1994, the PA has been hampered by the statebuilding framework enshrined in the Oslo Accords, its lack of sovereignty, the lack of final status negotiations, and the ‘partners for peace’ paradigm which is an attempt by donors and international organisations to support who …
Aid intervention' in the occupied Palestinian territory
This contribution uses an expanded conceptualisation of intervention based on the understanding of it as an attempt to influence, negatively or positively, the political context/direction of a country/situation. It does this through the concept of ‘aid intervention’ in the conflict-context of the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT). Based on over 12 years of research experience of aid donors in this context, this contribution compares the stated…
Fanning the Flames or a Troubling Truth? The Politics of Comparison in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
The politics of comparison in the Israel-Palestine conflict is largely encapsulated in the use of two analogies. The first is the ‘Holocaust-Hitler analogy’ used by Israel and its supporters, which portrays Israel as a beleaguered nation surrounded by Nazi sympathisers who seek to destroy it as the Jewish homeland. The second is the ‘apartheid analogy’, which compares the conflict to that of Apartheid-era South Africa and portrays Palestinians as…
Creating a counterhegemonic praxis
Despite over 20 years of peace process, Israel’s occupation, colonisation and repression continue, and the political and geographical fragmentation of the Palestinian people is proceeding apace. In this context, re-conceptualisations of the conflict and alternative visions of the future will take on increased urgency—both in Israel and Palestine. This article therefore focuses on two activist groups in Israel— Zochrot and Boycott from Within —eng…
Towards a new agenda for transforming war economies
An interest in peacebuilding among academics and policymakers has grown exponentially since UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali broadcast the concept in An Agenda for Peace, in 1992. However
The iron first of liberal intervention inside the velvet glove of Kantian idealism
We argue that Burke's theory of security cosmopolitanism suffers from a number of problems. These include the fact he operates with a simplistic account of current cosmopolitan thinking on security; he purports to offer a radical critique of state-centric approaches to security, but his analysis still privileges the state; he argues for security from below but ends up advocating governance by elites and experts; he offers an inadequate theory of …
Introduction
This special issue critically interrogates the current practices of international ‘peacebuilding’ interventions and ‘peace missions’ to highlight the violence that inheres in their attempts to enfo
Killing the Zombie Peace and Building a New Movement
The prospects for a just and sustainable peace are dire. The Oslo framework and the two-state solution are no longer fit for purpose (if indeed they ever were). And yet it is entirely possible that the current situation could limp on for a while longer – like a zombie that refuses to die. This short opinion piece argues that, in this context, a new movement and a new strategy are urgently required
Taming mammon
Unethical business practices, the conduct of corrupt rulers and conflict entrepreneurs in conflict-prone societies have provoked genuine humanitarian concern from NGOs and activists who constitute the main driving force behind calls for ethical markets. However, powerful players, such as western multinational corporations and OECD governments, have been able to undercut campaigns for compulsory legal regulatory codes by promoting industry self-re…
Richard Falk
Richard Falk's quest to combine academic scholarship with political activism is witnessed throughout his lifework, but perhaps especially so during his tenure as United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, a position he held from 2008 to 2014. Falk is a vocal critic of Israel's occupation and a staunch supporter of Palestinian selfdetermination, positions that have drawn strong condemnatio…
The West’ and ‘the rest’ in international interventions
This special issue was provoked by the desire to critically interrogate the frequently made Eurocentric assertions by many politicians and academics that ‘the West’ and ‘the rest’ are fundamentally different in terms of their aims and methods of intervention. Bringing together scholars of intervention with regional experts on China, Russia, the Gulf Arab states and Turkey, detailed empirical knowledge is used to analyse current interventionist pr…
Reconstructing Conflict
Building Democracy in Palestine
The victory of Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation, in the January 2006 elections for the Palestinian Authority, was greeted with dismay by the international community, which responded by cutting off aid. This article seeks to understand why Hamas was elected, as well as the international community's response, through an analysis of the liberal peace thesis. This thesis states that democracies do not go to war with one another, thus it was…
Towards a new agenda for transforming war economies
An interest in peacebuilding among academics and policymakers has grown exponentially since UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali broadcast the concept in An Agenda for Peace, in 1992. However
Taming mammon
Unethical business practices, the conduct of corrupt rulers and conflict entrepreneurs in conflict-prone societies have provoked genuine humanitarian concern from NGOs and activists who constitute the main driving force behind calls for ethical markets. However, powerful players, such as western multinational corporations and OECD governments, have been able to undercut campaigns for compulsory legal regulatory codes by promoting industry self-re…
Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding
The book provides critical perspectives that reach beyond the technical approaches of international financial institutions and proponents of the liberal peace formula. It investigates political econom
Civil War and Its Discontents
The Power of ‘Shock and Awe’
This article charts the development of the Palestinian Authority from its creation as an interim authority under the Oslo Accords towards becoming a failed (quasi-)state. By 2009 – 15 years after its inception and ten years after the proposed final status negotiations – the PA was split between a criminalized isolated entity in Gaza under the control of Hamas and an internationally recognized ‘caretaker government’ in the West Bank under the cont…
Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding
This book examines the much-neglected question of what constitutes a political economy of peace after civil conflicts and who controls it.The advent of the UN's Peacebuilding Commission signals a growing international interest in reconstruction during and after conflict. It is original in that it tackles the question of what constitutes a political economy of peace. Currently, how it might be constructed is either assumed to be self-evident and u…
Creating ‘Partners for Peace’
The Palestinian Authority (PA) offers an interesting case study of statebuilding in a conflict-country context. Created as an interim administration in the West Bank and Gaza in 1994, the PA has been hampered by the statebuilding framework enshrined in the Oslo Accords, its lack of sovereignty, the lack of final status negotiations, and the ‘partners for peace’ paradigm which is an attempt by donors and international organisations to support who …
The end of history and the last liberal peacebuilder
In the April 2010 Review of International Studies , Roland Paris argued that liberal peacebuilding is the only viable solution for rebuilding war-torn societies, and supported this by assailing critics of the liberal peace. In this article we challenge four key claims made by Paris: imposed and consensual peacebuilding are different experiences; there are no echoes of imperialism in modern peacebuilding; there is no alternative to the capitalist …
Completing the Circle
After nearly 20 years of negotiations and peacebuilding, Palestinians are no nearer to self-determination. This article explains this failure through an analysis of the context and peacebuilding framework created as a product of the Oslo Accords and the assumptions of Western donors about how peace would be achieved. It argues that the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) is subject to an assemblage of colonial practices – some of which are the p…
Introduction
This special issue critically interrogates the current practices of international ‘peacebuilding’ interventions and ‘peace missions’ to highlight the violence that inheres in their attempts to enfo
Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding
Developmental politics in transition
It is highly unusual for me to quote Paul Collier (semi-)approvingly, but I am going to begin this book review by doing so. In 2006, I attended a conference in Berlin on private sector development
The iron first of liberal intervention inside the velvet glove of Kantian idealism
We argue that Burke's theory of security cosmopolitanism suffers from a number of problems. These include the fact he operates with a simplistic account of current cosmopolitan thinking on security; he purports to offer a radical critique of state-centric approaches to security, but his analysis still privileges the state; he argues for security from below but ends up advocating governance by elites and experts; he offers an inadequate theory of …
Reconstructing Conflict
Decolonizing Palestinian Political Economy
The volume brings together cutting-edge political economy analyses of the Palestinian people: those living in the occupied territory of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, those living within Israel, and re
Statebuilding in Palestine
Peacebuilding as counterinsurgency in the occupied Palestinian territory
It is often suggested that Western peacebuilding in the occupied Palestinian territory has failed because it has not delivered a viable Palestinian state. But if peacebuilding is reinterpreted as a form of counterinsurgency whose goal is to secure a population, then it has not failed – in fact, on the contrary, it has been quite successful. This article therefore critically evaluates the idea and practice of peacebuilding as counterinsurgency by …
Israel-Palestine after Oslo
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is one of the world's most protracted, despite an over 20-year donor-sponsored peace process instituted after the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel an
Creating a counterhegemonic praxis
Despite over 20 years of peace process, Israel’s occupation, colonisation and repression continue, and the political and geographical fragmentation of the Palestinian people is proceeding apace. In this context, re-conceptualisations of the conflict and alternative visions of the future will take on increased urgency—both in Israel and Palestine. This article therefore focuses on two activist groups in Israel— Zochrot and Boycott from Within —eng…
Killing the Zombie Peace and Building a New Movement
The prospects for a just and sustainable peace are dire. The Oslo framework and the two-state solution are no longer fit for purpose (if indeed they ever were). And yet it is entirely possible that the current situation could limp on for a while longer – like a zombie that refuses to die. This short opinion piece argues that, in this context, a new movement and a new strategy are urgently required
The Peacebuilding–Counterinsurgency Nexus in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
This chapter argues that there is a nexus between western donor-led peace building and counter-insurgency: both promote forms of governance, development, and security to instil acquiescence and control. This is explored in two ways: first, through an analysis of the philosophy and practices of counter-insurgency and western peace building; and second, through an analysis of western peace-building strategies in the occupied Palestinian territory (…
Fanning the Flames or a Troubling Truth? The Politics of Comparison in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
The politics of comparison in the Israel-Palestine conflict is largely encapsulated in the use of two analogies. The first is the ‘Holocaust-Hitler analogy’ used by Israel and its supporters, which portrays Israel as a beleaguered nation surrounded by Nazi sympathisers who seek to destroy it as the Jewish homeland. The second is the ‘apartheid analogy’, which compares the conflict to that of Apartheid-era South Africa and portrays Palestinians as…
Richard Falk
Richard Falk's quest to combine academic scholarship with political activism is witnessed throughout his lifework, but perhaps especially so during his tenure as United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, a position he held from 2008 to 2014. Falk is a vocal critic of Israel's occupation and a staunch supporter of Palestinian selfdetermination, positions that have drawn strong condemnatio…
The West’ and ‘the rest’ in international interventions
This special issue was provoked by the desire to critically interrogate the frequently made Eurocentric assertions by many politicians and academics that ‘the West’ and ‘the rest’ are fundamentally different in terms of their aims and methods of intervention. Bringing together scholars of intervention with regional experts on China, Russia, the Gulf Arab states and Turkey, detailed empirical knowledge is used to analyse current interventionist pr…
Political science (27 works) · Law (22 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Politics (18 works) · Political economy (17 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (13 works) · History (12 works) · Economics (10 works)