Nathan Andrews
Biographic Data
| ID | 3726298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Andrews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Andrews |
| SIGNATURE | ANDREWS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rethinking Security Governance in Africa
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…
Pedagogical diversity, international political economy and development studies
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
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…
Gender, land grabbing and agrarian livelihoods
Decolonizing International Relations and Development Studies
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 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…
A developmental paradox? The “dark forces” against corporate social responsibility in Ghana’s extractive industry
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…
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
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…
Does transparency matter? Evaluating the governance impacts of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (Eiti) in Azerbaijan and Liberia
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect
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…
Beyond the Ivory Tower
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…
Imperialist Canada
Telling Tales of Conformity and Mutual Interests
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 …
Decolonizing International Relations and Development Studies
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…
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…
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…
Gender, land grabbing and agrarian livelihoods
Beyond the Ivory Tower
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
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
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
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
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
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…
A developmental paradox? The “dark forces” against corporate social responsibility in Ghana’s extractive industry
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 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…
Decolonizing International Relations and Development Studies
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…
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…
Gender, land grabbing and agrarian livelihoods
Rethinking Security Governance in Africa
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…
Pedagogical diversity, international political economy and development studies
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
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)…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Corporate governance (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Mining and Resource Management (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · International relations (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Business (4 works)