Michael Pugh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Pugh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Pugh |
| SIGNATURE | PUGH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Plymouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9266-9013 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 254 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Forum on Oliver Richmond’s The Grand Design: The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture
In this forum, seven scholars discuss Oliver P. Richmond’s The Grand Design: The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture , published in 2022. The editors, Gëzim Visoka and Annika Björkdahl, contextualise the book’s contribution within the broader intellectual framework of Richmond’s thoughts and writings on peace in the context of International Relations. Roland Bleiker examines the book’s main caveats and the outlook of international p…
A Socio-political Overview of Post-socialist Southeastern Europe Today
According to Freedom House, those southeast European states which have joined the European Union are "free" while the rest are "partly free. " For ordinary citizens, the most important issues are corruption, unemployment, and poverty. There is an approximate correlation between Freedom House's assessments of democratic attainment and local perceptions of corruption: the more corrupt the country, the less democratic it is likely to be. The media a…
Undergraduate peer review, reading and writing: Reflecting on experiences from an International Politics module
From academic years 2011–2012 until 2015–2016 (inclusive), the authors developed an innovative formative peer review assessment strategy to build undergraduate students’ academic writing skills within the framework of a second year introductory International Politics module. This involved students anonymously reviewing assigned fellow students’ draft essay introductions and indicative bibliographies, supported by a bespoke rubric delivered via Tu…
Precarity in Post-Conflict Yugoslavia: What About the Workers
Framed by historical materialism, this study of labour in post-conflict settings contends that the Balkan peace has been disfigured by a political economy of precarity. Former Yugoslav territories experienced chronic unemployment and precarity, moulded by distinctive cultures and identities, though labour had already been pummelled by the impacts of global integration before violent conflict. Peace meant reordering of pre-war and wartime politica…
A Review of Contemporary Linked Challenges for Scottish Local Government
This article reviews recent linked challenges to Scottish Local Government viewed through the lens of ‘governance’ in the post-Scottish independence referendum context. This is an appropriate juncture to consider the range of contemporaneous and linked issues and challenges that face this level of governance. The article includes an update on the debates associated public sector reform and the agenda to ‘renew local democracy’. Moreover, the arti…
Oligarchy and economic legacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Oligarchy-in-democracy signifies a system of governance that whilst formally democratic promotes the political power of a section of the entrepreneurial bourgeoisie. Disaggregation of a nouveau riche which prospered during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) reveals not only that it dominated governance but also reflects global capitalism in privileging privatisation of the state and rentier accumulation. Since the end of the Yugoslav wars mu…
Diverse narratives of war and peace: An apprentice's memoir
To be asked to reflect on influences on an academic career is both flattering and not quite an autopsy request. But it provoked anxiety. Self-publicity is a trap that this essay attempts to mitigat
Centralisation has its draw backs as well as its advantages’: The Surrounding Burghs’ Resistance to Glasgow's Municipal Expansion, c. 1869–1912
International Peacekeeping
Reflections on Aggressive Peace
Multilateral interventions for regime change are not new, but their mutation has been congruent with an aggressive attempt to introduce liberal values into peacekeeping and related operations discernible from the 1990s. While recognizing non-coercive, needs-based elements of interventions for peace, this article contends that regime change wars have harmonized with the UN's facilitation of aggressive peace missions and coercive peacebuilding. In …
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…
Local Agency and Political Economies of Peacebuilding
In Memoriam
In Memoriam
Documentation: Security Council Resolution 1973 (2001) on the Situation in Libya
SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1973 (2001) ON THE SITUATION IN LIBYA Adopted by the Security Council at its 6498th meeting, on 17 March 2011 ‘The Security Council, Recalling its resolution 1970 (2011)
The end of history and the last liberal peacebuilder: A reply to Roland Paris
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 …
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
The Political Economy of Corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This article contends that the complex administrative mechanics prescribed in the Dayton Accords presented opportunities for nationalist leaders to abuse public office. At the same time, economic reforms and a high degree of decentralization gave elites and local communities the facility to resist externally induced structural adjustment. The economic paradigm introduced for transition limited any attempt to establish a social contract between in…
Normative Values and Economic Deficits in Postconflict Transformation
When he [Ashdown] carne to Bosnia, he published a manifesto called For jobs and But there are no jobs and there is no justice. The only thing he is interested in is being able to write a report at the end of his term boasting of all his reforms.1It is remarkable how little attention is paid to the economic contexts in which peacekeepers, police, and other external agencies operate in wartorn societies. Yet it is arguable - without subscribing to …
The aftermath of war
The author acknowledges the support of ESRC Research Grant (RES: 223-25-0071)
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
Post-war economies and the New York dissensus
We will follow the owner of the money and the owner of labour-power into the hidden foci of production, crossing the threshold of the portal above which is written, 'No admittance except on business'. Karl Marx, Das Kapital
Transformation in the political economy of Bosnia since Dayton
The transformation dynamics of Bosnia and Herzegovina adversely affects economically vulnerable sectors of society in a context of fragile economic growth and a contested balance of power between international direction and local ownership. International agencies and financial institutions have imposed a model of economic transformation, ultimately derived from the neoliberal ideology of aggressive capitalism and the 1989 Washington consensus on …
War Economies in a Regional Context: Challenges of Transformation
Confronting the corrosive influence that war economies typically have on the prospects for peace in war-torn societies, this study critically analyzes current policy responses and offers a thought-provoking foundation for the development of more effective peacebuilding strategies. The authors focus on the role played by trade in precipitating and fueling conflict, with particular emphasis on the regional dynamics that are created by war economies…
Peacekeeping and critical theory
No
Peacekeeping and critical theory
No
The end of history and the last liberal peacebuilder: A reply to Roland Paris
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 …
Local Agency and Political Economies of Peacebuilding
The Political Economy of Corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This article contends that the complex administrative mechanics prescribed in the Dayton Accords presented opportunities for nationalist leaders to abuse public office. At the same time, economic reforms and a high degree of decentralization gave elites and local communities the facility to resist externally induced structural adjustment. The economic paradigm introduced for transition limited any attempt to establish a social contract between in…
Transformation in the political economy of Bosnia since Dayton
The transformation dynamics of Bosnia and Herzegovina adversely affects economically vulnerable sectors of society in a context of fragile economic growth and a contested balance of power between international direction and local ownership. International agencies and financial institutions have imposed a model of economic transformation, ultimately derived from the neoliberal ideology of aggressive capitalism and the 1989 Washington consensus on …
Postwar Political Economy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Spoils of Peace
In postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), international and local captains maneuver to assert control and negotiate areas of collaboration. In each of the Croat and Bosniac areas of the Federation and in the Serb-controlled Republika Srpska (RS), the major political elements that took Bosnia into war now also enjoy the economic spoils in their geographical sectors. Central institutions remain weak in BiH, undermined by war entrepreneurs and patrim…
Rubbing Salt into War Wounds: Shadow Economies and Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Kosovo
The Challenge of Civil-military Relations in International Peace Operations
The relationship between military and civilian humanitarian organisations has developed in an increasingly integrative way. Military initiatives to institutionalise the relationship, since the interventions in Somalia and the Balkans, entail a dilution of humanitarian independence as was manifested in practice in Kosovo. Further, the state-centric foundations of military intervention run counter to the potential for humanitarian organisations to …
Reflections on Aggressive Peace
Multilateral interventions for regime change are not new, but their mutation has been congruent with an aggressive attempt to introduce liberal values into peacekeeping and related operations discernible from the 1990s. While recognizing non-coercive, needs-based elements of interventions for peace, this article contends that regime change wars have harmonized with the UN's facilitation of aggressive peace missions and coercive peacebuilding. In …
Military Intervention and Humanitarian Action: Trends and Issues
An important trend in military doctrine for so-called 'peace support operations' has been to place them on a spectrum that includes coercion and enforcement. This paper focuses on British writers of doctrine as those responsible for driving the debate forward and forging a consensus among leading military powers. Their discourse is combat oriented, a fact reinforced by a trend towards strategic subcontracting to coalitions of the militarily willi…
Peacebuilding as developmentalism: Concepts from disaster research
Post-war economies and the New York dissensus
We will follow the owner of the money and the owner of labour-power into the hidden foci of production, crossing the threshold of the portal above which is written, 'No admittance except on business'. Karl Marx, Das Kapital
Non-Nationalist Voting in Bosnian Municipal Elections: Implications for Democracy and Peacebuilding
In both the general theory of peacebuilding and the specific implementation of peace agreements, the establishment of democratic political processes and institutions is accorded a high priority by external actors in their efforts to stabilize war-torn societies. An emphasis on free elections has been especially insistent in the peacebuilding processes developed for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and was a keystone of the 1995 Dayton Agreement. This arti…
Privatisation'’ in the United Nations system: Patterns of influence in three intergovernmental organisations
(1997). “Privatisation'’ in the United Nations system: Patterns of influence in three intergovernmental organisations. Global Society: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 339-357
Civil-Military Relations in the Kosovo Crisis: An Emerging Hegemony
The Lead Agency Concept in Humanitarian Assistance
Oligarchy and economic legacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Oligarchy-in-democracy signifies a system of governance that whilst formally democratic promotes the political power of a section of the entrepreneurial bourgeoisie. Disaggregation of a nouveau riche which prospered during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) reveals not only that it dominated governance but also reflects global capitalism in privileging privatisation of the state and rentier accumulation. Since the end of the Yugoslav wars mu…
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
Mediterranean Boat People: A Case for Co-operation
This article counters the hegemonic discourse about Mediterranean boat people as a 'threat' by representing the phenomenon as a welfare issue with political and socio-economic foundations. It requires thinking about people on the move as an issue of human welfare, and recognition that assistance and regulation address only the symptoms of structural features of the international system. Practical requirements, however, demand that the issue be tr…
Humanitarianism and peacekeeping
Normative Values and Economic Deficits in Postconflict Transformation
When he [Ashdown] carne to Bosnia, he published a manifesto called For jobs and But there are no jobs and there is no justice. The only thing he is interested in is being able to write a report at the end of his term boasting of all his reforms.1It is remarkable how little attention is paid to the economic contexts in which peacekeepers, police, and other external agencies operate in wartorn societies. Yet it is arguable - without subscribing to …
Peacekeeping Fiascoes of the 1990s: Causes, Solutions, and U.S. Interests
Precarity in Post-Conflict Yugoslavia: What About the Workers
Framed by historical materialism, this study of labour in post-conflict settings contends that the Balkan peace has been disfigured by a political economy of precarity. Former Yugoslav territories experienced chronic unemployment and precarity, moulded by distinctive cultures and identities, though labour had already been pummelled by the impacts of global integration before violent conflict. Peace meant reordering of pre-war and wartime politica…
Peacekeeping and IR Theory: Phantom of the Opera
The article identifies a gap in peacekeeping studies. Scholars have not explicitly related peace operations to theories of knowledge that inform debates in International Relations about the nature of world politics. Peacekeeping's hybridity in IR theory was perhaps related to its Cold War exceptionalism and marginalization. Further, as a curiosity in military affairs, soldiers and scholars were chiefly concerned about whether it did any good and …
Legal Aspects of the Rainbow Warrior Affair
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Pacifism and Politics in Britain, 1931–1935
In the 1930s the British peace movement expanded rapidly from a preserve of small elitist peace societies into a mass phenomenon. More specifically, it was in the period from the Manchurian crisis to the Italo-Ethiopian war that what has been loosely called ‘pacifism’ gained political weight. Whilst its effect on the making of foreign policy has been the subject of much historical inquiry, the manifestations of the peace debate, including the fam…
Legal Aspects of the Rainbow Warrior Affair
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Superpower Politics: Change in the United States and the Soviet Union
The recent thaw in the Cold War is leading to a fundamental transformation of global politics. This textbook aims to explain the latest political changes in the USA and the USSR, and considers the implications for the international order of their decline in power. The book looks at each country's internal and external policy adjustments and emphasizes the constraints felt by Washington and Moscow. Beginning with an account of the history of the s…
Peacebuilding as developmentalism: Concepts from disaster research
Humanitarianism and peacekeeping
From mission cringe to mission creep? Concluding remarks
(1996). From mission cringe to mission creep? Concluding remarks. International Peacekeeping: Vol. 3, The UN, Peace and Force, pp. 191-194
Maritime peace support operations in the Mediterranean
In spite of the significance of internationally‐legitimized peace support operations in the Mediterranean area since the second world war, the historical record testifies to the absence of intra‐Mediterranean security co‐operation. The functional attributes of maritime forces in facilitating co‐operative behaviour would appear to offer a means to overcome this. Currently, however, the prospects for co‐operation at sea continue to be limited by di…
Privatisation'’ in the United Nations system: Patterns of influence in three intergovernmental organisations
(1997). “Privatisation'’ in the United Nations system: Patterns of influence in three intergovernmental organisations. Global Society: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 339-357
The Lead Agency Concept in Humanitarian Assistance
The Withering of UN Humanitarian Reform
Military Intervention and Humanitarian Action: Trends and Issues
An important trend in military doctrine for so-called 'peace support operations' has been to place them on a spectrum that includes coercion and enforcement. This paper focuses on British writers of doctrine as those responsible for driving the debate forward and forging a consensus among leading military powers. Their discourse is combat oriented, a fact reinforced by a trend towards strategic subcontracting to coalitions of the militarily willi…
Civil-Military Relations in the Kosovo Crisis: An Emerging Hegemony
Regeneration of War-Torn Societies: Global Issues
REGENERATION OF WAR-TORN SOCIETIESGlobal issuesEdited by Michael PughHoundsmill & London: Macmillan and St Martin's, 2000, xvi, 249pp, US$65.00, ISBN 0-312-23113-XHow societies move from protracted civil war to enduring peace has become the principal theme of a rich and rapidly growing literature. Frequently referred to as peacebuilding, the process is described in this edited collection as the 'regeneration of war-torn societies,' a term the edi…
Mediterranean Boat People: A Case for Co-operation
This article counters the hegemonic discourse about Mediterranean boat people as a 'threat' by representing the phenomenon as a welfare issue with political and socio-economic foundations. It requires thinking about people on the move as an issue of human welfare, and recognition that assistance and regulation address only the symptoms of structural features of the international system. Practical requirements, however, demand that the issue be tr…
Non-Nationalist Voting in Bosnian Municipal Elections: Implications for Democracy and Peacebuilding
In both the general theory of peacebuilding and the specific implementation of peace agreements, the establishment of democratic political processes and institutions is accorded a high priority by external actors in their efforts to stabilize war-torn societies. An emphasis on free elections has been especially insistent in the peacebuilding processes developed for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and was a keystone of the 1995 Dayton Agreement. This arti…
The Challenge of Civil-military Relations in International Peace Operations
The relationship between military and civilian humanitarian organisations has developed in an increasingly integrative way. Military initiatives to institutionalise the relationship, since the interventions in Somalia and the Balkans, entail a dilution of humanitarian independence as was manifested in practice in Kosovo. Further, the state-centric foundations of military intervention run counter to the potential for humanitarian organisations to …
Postwar Political Economy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Spoils of Peace
In postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), international and local captains maneuver to assert control and negotiate areas of collaboration. In each of the Croat and Bosniac areas of the Federation and in the Serb-controlled Republika Srpska (RS), the major political elements that took Bosnia into war now also enjoy the economic spoils in their geographical sectors. Central institutions remain weak in BiH, undermined by war entrepreneurs and patrim…
Policing the World: Lord Davies and the Quest for Order in the 1930s
In the 1930s there was an upsurge of interest in the idea of an International Police Force designed to enforce the peace. One of the main proponents of the concept was (Lord) David Davies, who laid out his own masterplan in his massive, The Problem of the Twentieth Century (1930), a book which merits a high place in the interwar literature on international relations. The idea itself had little likelihood of being implemented at the time Nonethele…
Introduction: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Peacekeeping and IR Theory: Phantom of the Opera
The article identifies a gap in peacekeeping studies. Scholars have not explicitly related peace operations to theories of knowledge that inform debates in International Relations about the nature of world politics. Peacekeeping's hybridity in IR theory was perhaps related to its Cold War exceptionalism and marginalization. Further, as a curiosity in military affairs, soldiers and scholars were chiefly concerned about whether it did any good and …
Peacekeeping Fiascoes of the 1990s: Causes, Solutions, and U.S. Interests
War Economies in a Regional Context: Challenges of Transformation
Confronting the corrosive influence that war economies typically have on the prospects for peace in war-torn societies, this study critically analyzes current policy responses and offers a thought-provoking foundation for the development of more effective peacebuilding strategies. The authors focus on the role played by trade in precipitating and fueling conflict, with particular emphasis on the regional dynamics that are created by war economies…
Peacekeeping and critical theory
No
Rubbing Salt into War Wounds: Shadow Economies and Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Kosovo
Transformation in the political economy of Bosnia since Dayton
The transformation dynamics of Bosnia and Herzegovina adversely affects economically vulnerable sectors of society in a context of fragile economic growth and a contested balance of power between international direction and local ownership. International agencies and financial institutions have imposed a model of economic transformation, ultimately derived from the neoliberal ideology of aggressive capitalism and the 1989 Washington consensus on …
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