Lina Benabdallah
Biographic Data
| ID | 4050007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lina Benabdallah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lina |
| FAMILY NAME | Benabdallah |
| SIGNATURE | BENABDALLAH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4739-2545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Emotions and Solidarity in the Global South
This chapter contends that emotions play a fundamental role in Global South politics. It examines how positive emotions and attributes such as friendship bonds, trust, and respect are salient in expressions of solidarity and diplomatic resilience among Global South states. In particular, it investigates emotional resonance and familiarity as a basis for expressions of solidarity in South–South relations. As illustration, the chapter looks into ex…
Fragmenting China
The Liberal International Order as an Imposition
Cracks in the liberal international order (LIO) have been occurring since its very formation. Yet, some international relations scholarship frames the narrative about imminent threats to the LIO as if such threats were new. From a postcolonial vantage point, this essay contends that mainstream theorizing about international order is problematically Eurocentric and develops a three-pronged argument. In the first place, the essay argues for underst…
Intervention before interventionism
Africa–Asia
Is South-South Cooperation providing a path of alterity for Global South states or is it indelibly caught in extractive and exploitative competition over resources and markets? Do Chinese engagements in the Global South increase African agency? Do they compete with or undermine Western-led Liberal International Order norms and standards? There is now a robust scholarship examining the failures and trepidations of the Liberal International Order e…
The Key to solving all problems’? Unpacking China’s development-as-security approach in Mali
There is a robust scholarship examining the security–development nexus in international development and international security studies. However, this scholarship has thus far mainly offered perspectives from Western actors and traditional development agencies such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This article makes a theoretical and an empirical contribution to the literature by rethinking the security–develop…
South–South Knowledge Production and Hegemony
There is a growing community of international relations (IR) scholars who argue for the importance of investigating Global South approaches to IR scholarship, making room for theories and concepts that challenge the discipline's Eurocentricity, and debating the merits and pitfalls of globalizing IR by including perspectives from various Global South locations. In addition to acknowledging this existing critical scholarship that aims at resisting …
Statement of Philosophy and Mission
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A Relational Approach to Gift-Giving
This article expands gift-giving theories by shifting the focus of international relations scholarship from Euro-American-centric views on foreign aid to South–South perspectives to gift exchanges. It does so by recentering relationality and analyzing gifts as encompassing favors, symbolic gestures, support in international arenas, and intangible expressions of solidarity as can be seen in China–Africa relations. Building on work in critical theo…
Spanning Thousands of Miles and Years
The study of international relations (IR) has paid increasing attention over the last decade or so to the politics of memory, trauma, shame, but to a less extent to the political instrumentalization of positive experiences of the past. Indeed, IR theory rarely engaged the concept of nostalgia and its place within foreign policy making despite its potential for providing a powerful theoretical lens to explain hegemonic power dynamics. Sitting at t…
Contesting the international order by integrating it
What does the Belt and Road initiative (BRI) tell us about China’s perceptions of the international order? This paper takes an inductive approach by examining the BRI for a two-pronged purpose: first, to understand China’s perception of the international order by examining Beijing’s official discourse around its intentions and vision for the initiative; and, second, to examine the mechanisms through which Chinese norms are diffused and normalised…
Explaining attractiveness
Is China Building an Empire in Rural Africa
The questions of ‘what China wants’ and ‘how it will meet its needs as it continues rising’ motivate a great deal of research in International Relations. As China became the second largest economy in the world and as its economic and strategic influence continue to advance, many scholars have investigated China’s motivations from different approaches. Some scholars perceive China as a revisionist power that seeks to changes the rules of the game …
Political representation of China–Africa
How is Western media portraying China–Africa relations, and what consequences do they have on Chinese media reactions and portrayals of China–Africa relations? This article takes an innovative approach analysing The Economist ’s rhetoric and China Daily Africa Weekly ’s political cartoons in order to ascertain the political representation of China–Africa relations in each of these outlets. The findings show that although there are major differenc…
Contesting the international order by integrating it
What does the Belt and Road initiative (BRI) tell us about China’s perceptions of the international order? This paper takes an inductive approach by examining the BRI for a two-pronged purpose: first, to understand China’s perception of the international order by examining Beijing’s official discourse around its intentions and vision for the initiative; and, second, to examine the mechanisms through which Chinese norms are diffused and normalised…
Spanning Thousands of Miles and Years
The study of international relations (IR) has paid increasing attention over the last decade or so to the politics of memory, trauma, shame, but to a less extent to the political instrumentalization of positive experiences of the past. Indeed, IR theory rarely engaged the concept of nostalgia and its place within foreign policy making despite its potential for providing a powerful theoretical lens to explain hegemonic power dynamics. Sitting at t…
Explaining attractiveness
South–South Knowledge Production and Hegemony
There is a growing community of international relations (IR) scholars who argue for the importance of investigating Global South approaches to IR scholarship, making room for theories and concepts that challenge the discipline's Eurocentricity, and debating the merits and pitfalls of globalizing IR by including perspectives from various Global South locations. In addition to acknowledging this existing critical scholarship that aims at resisting …
A Relational Approach to Gift-Giving
This article expands gift-giving theories by shifting the focus of international relations scholarship from Euro-American-centric views on foreign aid to South–South perspectives to gift exchanges. It does so by recentering relationality and analyzing gifts as encompassing favors, symbolic gestures, support in international arenas, and intangible expressions of solidarity as can be seen in China–Africa relations. Building on work in critical theo…
Fragmenting China
Africa–Asia
Is South-South Cooperation providing a path of alterity for Global South states or is it indelibly caught in extractive and exploitative competition over resources and markets? Do Chinese engagements in the Global South increase African agency? Do they compete with or undermine Western-led Liberal International Order norms and standards? There is now a robust scholarship examining the failures and trepidations of the Liberal International Order e…
The Key to solving all problems’? Unpacking China’s development-as-security approach in Mali
There is a robust scholarship examining the security–development nexus in international development and international security studies. However, this scholarship has thus far mainly offered perspectives from Western actors and traditional development agencies such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This article makes a theoretical and an empirical contribution to the literature by rethinking the security–develop…
Political representation of China–Africa
How is Western media portraying China–Africa relations, and what consequences do they have on Chinese media reactions and portrayals of China–Africa relations? This article takes an innovative approach analysing The Economist ’s rhetoric and China Daily Africa Weekly ’s political cartoons in order to ascertain the political representation of China–Africa relations in each of these outlets. The findings show that although there are major differenc…
Is China Building an Empire in Rural Africa
The questions of ‘what China wants’ and ‘how it will meet its needs as it continues rising’ motivate a great deal of research in International Relations. As China became the second largest economy in the world and as its economic and strategic influence continue to advance, many scholars have investigated China’s motivations from different approaches. Some scholars perceive China as a revisionist power that seeks to changes the rules of the game …
Explaining attractiveness
Contesting the international order by integrating it
What does the Belt and Road initiative (BRI) tell us about China’s perceptions of the international order? This paper takes an inductive approach by examining the BRI for a two-pronged purpose: first, to understand China’s perception of the international order by examining Beijing’s official discourse around its intentions and vision for the initiative; and, second, to examine the mechanisms through which Chinese norms are diffused and normalised…
Spanning Thousands of Miles and Years
The study of international relations (IR) has paid increasing attention over the last decade or so to the politics of memory, trauma, shame, but to a less extent to the political instrumentalization of positive experiences of the past. Indeed, IR theory rarely engaged the concept of nostalgia and its place within foreign policy making despite its potential for providing a powerful theoretical lens to explain hegemonic power dynamics. Sitting at t…
South–South Knowledge Production and Hegemony
There is a growing community of international relations (IR) scholars who argue for the importance of investigating Global South approaches to IR scholarship, making room for theories and concepts that challenge the discipline's Eurocentricity, and debating the merits and pitfalls of globalizing IR by including perspectives from various Global South locations. In addition to acknowledging this existing critical scholarship that aims at resisting …
Statement of Philosophy and Mission
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
A Relational Approach to Gift-Giving
This article expands gift-giving theories by shifting the focus of international relations scholarship from Euro-American-centric views on foreign aid to South–South perspectives to gift exchanges. It does so by recentering relationality and analyzing gifts as encompassing favors, symbolic gestures, support in international arenas, and intangible expressions of solidarity as can be seen in China–Africa relations. Building on work in critical theo…
The Key to solving all problems’? Unpacking China’s development-as-security approach in Mali
There is a robust scholarship examining the security–development nexus in international development and international security studies. However, this scholarship has thus far mainly offered perspectives from Western actors and traditional development agencies such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This article makes a theoretical and an empirical contribution to the literature by rethinking the security–develop…
The Liberal International Order as an Imposition
Cracks in the liberal international order (LIO) have been occurring since its very formation. Yet, some international relations scholarship frames the narrative about imminent threats to the LIO as if such threats were new. From a postcolonial vantage point, this essay contends that mainstream theorizing about international order is problematically Eurocentric and develops a three-pronged argument. In the first place, the essay argues for underst…
Intervention before interventionism
Africa–Asia
Is South-South Cooperation providing a path of alterity for Global South states or is it indelibly caught in extractive and exploitative competition over resources and markets? Do Chinese engagements in the Global South increase African agency? Do they compete with or undermine Western-led Liberal International Order norms and standards? There is now a robust scholarship examining the failures and trepidations of the Liberal International Order e…
Emotions and Solidarity in the Global South
This chapter contends that emotions play a fundamental role in Global South politics. It examines how positive emotions and attributes such as friendship bonds, trust, and respect are salient in expressions of solidarity and diplomatic resilience among Global South states. In particular, it investigates emotional resonance and familiarity as a basis for expressions of solidarity in South–South relations. As illustration, the chapter looks into ex…
Fragmenting China
Political science (14 works) · International Development and Aid (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · China (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (5 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · China's Global Influence and Migration (4 works)