Mark Furne
Biographic Data
| ID | 4152205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Furne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Furne |
| SIGNATURE | FURNE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Institute of Development and Sustainability |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-8133-7391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
European aid and democracy support to Mena countries after the Arab Uprisings: A critical juncture missed
The Arab Uprisings represent a critical juncture for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), even though they did not result in the democratic change that many expected at the time. To what extent do European development donors use aid to support democracy in MENA countries when faced by such a critical juncture? We examine the policy and operational responses of four major European donors: France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the European In…
Intermediary organizations, international cooperation and the changing social contract: Morocco’s new development model
In 2021, King Mohammed VI's appointed commission released a new vision for Moroccan state-society relations: the New Development Model (Nouveau Modèle de Développement, NMD). Presented as a 'national collective and federative project', it entailed a social protection system called a 'social pact' or 'social contract'. The King's vision articulated in the NMD promises changes that many Moroccans have long been calling for. The government has creat…
Drivers of change in social contracts: Building a conceptual framework
Social contracts have recently re-emerged as a field of research. They can stabilize the relationship between state and society by establishing some predictability about the mutual deliverables between actors - especially if they are flexible for modifications to take account of changes in the framework conditions, the positions and preferences of their parties, and prevailing norms, values and ideologies. The question is, thus, when, why and how…
Two Norms Collide: EU Policy on Fragile and Conflict‐Affected Countries
The European Union's (EU's) policy towards fragile and conflict‐affected (FCA) countries has been framed by a normative solidarity narrative that promotes and legitimises collective action. Over the past two decades, the EU's commitment to protecting the security of its citizens has increasingly become a strong, competing normative driver of EU engagement in FCA countries. In tracing its evolution, this symposium article shows how the collision o…
Promoting Policy Coherence within the 2030 Agenda Framework: Externalities, Trade-Offs and Politics
The promotion of Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development is one of the 169 targets of the 2030 Agenda, and considered a key means of implementation. The 2030 Agenda, while noble and necessary to put humanity on a sustainable path, has vastly exacerbated the complexity and ambiguity of development policymaking. This article challenges two assumptions that are common in both policy discussions and associated scholarly debates: First, the techn…
“Donorship” and strategic policy‐making: Germany’s Middle Eastern and North African aid programme since the Arab uprisings
EU development policy: Evolving as an instrument of foreign policy and as an expression of solidarity
This article introduces the special issue on the evolution of European Union development policy, against the background of fundamental challenges that have emerged since the 2009 Lisbon Treaty. The special issue’s objective is to highlight the complex dynamics of a policy area that is called on to address the massive challenges of poverty, inequality, healthcare capacity, climate change, insecurity and weak governance in countries of the global s…
Reconstituting social contracts in conflict-affected Mena countries: Whither Iraq and Libya
This article discusses the prospects for forging new social contracts in highly fragile and conflict affected countries. Building on analytical insights from the political settlements and state fragility literature, conceptualising peacebuilding processes as efforts to forge social contracts enables us to address the roles of governments, social groups, citizens and external stakeholders. We discuss the potential for peacebuilding processes to re…
Priorities for International Co-operation with Libya: A Development Perspective
This article provides a development co-operation perspective on the challenges facing Libya during its post-Qadhafi transition. Four key areas for international co-operation are outlined: peace, reconciliation and justice; governance and public administration; economic diversification; and migration. While concrete initiatives in all of these areas depend on Libya’s domestic security situation, they need to be part of a long-term, holistic strate…
Europeanisation and the EU's comprehensive approach to crisis management in Africa
This article asks to what extent the European Union (EU) and its member states actually pursued and implemented comprehensive approaches in relation to crisis management in Africa. It also asks what can explain the lack of full implementation of the comprehensive approach in the cases of South Sudan, Mali and the Central African Republic. It is shown that EU member states saw the added value of the common EU approach while at the same time they p…
Separating the Willing from the Able: Is the European Union’s Mediterranean Policy Incentive Compatible
The European Union’s ambitious Mediterranean policy has the declared goal of bringing about economic and political transformation by explicitly linking reform with rewards. Drawing on mechanism design theory, we argue that the EU’s Mediterranean policy has the potential to reveal information about the respective partner countries’ reform ‘types’. However, the current incentive structure of the EU’s Mediterranean policy does not fit with the requi…
EU development policy: Evolving as an instrument of foreign policy and as an expression of solidarity
This article introduces the special issue on the evolution of European Union development policy, against the background of fundamental challenges that have emerged since the 2009 Lisbon Treaty. The special issue’s objective is to highlight the complex dynamics of a policy area that is called on to address the massive challenges of poverty, inequality, healthcare capacity, climate change, insecurity and weak governance in countries of the global s…
Reconstituting social contracts in conflict-affected Mena countries: Whither Iraq and Libya
This article discusses the prospects for forging new social contracts in highly fragile and conflict affected countries. Building on analytical insights from the political settlements and state fragility literature, conceptualising peacebuilding processes as efforts to forge social contracts enables us to address the roles of governments, social groups, citizens and external stakeholders. We discuss the potential for peacebuilding processes to re…
Promoting Policy Coherence within the 2030 Agenda Framework: Externalities, Trade-Offs and Politics
The promotion of Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development is one of the 169 targets of the 2030 Agenda, and considered a key means of implementation. The 2030 Agenda, while noble and necessary to put humanity on a sustainable path, has vastly exacerbated the complexity and ambiguity of development policymaking. This article challenges two assumptions that are common in both policy discussions and associated scholarly debates: First, the techn…
Europeanisation and the EU's comprehensive approach to crisis management in Africa
This article asks to what extent the European Union (EU) and its member states actually pursued and implemented comprehensive approaches in relation to crisis management in Africa. It also asks what can explain the lack of full implementation of the comprehensive approach in the cases of South Sudan, Mali and the Central African Republic. It is shown that EU member states saw the added value of the common EU approach while at the same time they p…
Separating the Willing from the Able: Is the European Union’s Mediterranean Policy Incentive Compatible
The European Union’s ambitious Mediterranean policy has the declared goal of bringing about economic and political transformation by explicitly linking reform with rewards. Drawing on mechanism design theory, we argue that the EU’s Mediterranean policy has the potential to reveal information about the respective partner countries’ reform ‘types’. However, the current incentive structure of the EU’s Mediterranean policy does not fit with the requi…
Drivers of change in social contracts: Building a conceptual framework
Social contracts have recently re-emerged as a field of research. They can stabilize the relationship between state and society by establishing some predictability about the mutual deliverables between actors - especially if they are flexible for modifications to take account of changes in the framework conditions, the positions and preferences of their parties, and prevailing norms, values and ideologies. The question is, thus, when, why and how…
Intermediary organizations, international cooperation and the changing social contract: Morocco’s new development model
In 2021, King Mohammed VI's appointed commission released a new vision for Moroccan state-society relations: the New Development Model (Nouveau Modèle de Développement, NMD). Presented as a 'national collective and federative project', it entailed a social protection system called a 'social pact' or 'social contract'. The King's vision articulated in the NMD promises changes that many Moroccans have long been calling for. The government has creat…
Two Norms Collide: EU Policy on Fragile and Conflict‐Affected Countries
The European Union's (EU's) policy towards fragile and conflict‐affected (FCA) countries has been framed by a normative solidarity narrative that promotes and legitimises collective action. Over the past two decades, the EU's commitment to protecting the security of its citizens has increasingly become a strong, competing normative driver of EU engagement in FCA countries. In tracing its evolution, this symposium article shows how the collision o…
Priorities for International Co-operation with Libya: A Development Perspective
This article provides a development co-operation perspective on the challenges facing Libya during its post-Qadhafi transition. Four key areas for international co-operation are outlined: peace, reconciliation and justice; governance and public administration; economic diversification; and migration. While concrete initiatives in all of these areas depend on Libya’s domestic security situation, they need to be part of a long-term, holistic strate…
Separating the Willing from the Able: Is the European Union’s Mediterranean Policy Incentive Compatible
The European Union’s ambitious Mediterranean policy has the declared goal of bringing about economic and political transformation by explicitly linking reform with rewards. Drawing on mechanism design theory, we argue that the EU’s Mediterranean policy has the potential to reveal information about the respective partner countries’ reform ‘types’. However, the current incentive structure of the EU’s Mediterranean policy does not fit with the requi…
Europeanisation and the EU's comprehensive approach to crisis management in Africa
This article asks to what extent the European Union (EU) and its member states actually pursued and implemented comprehensive approaches in relation to crisis management in Africa. It also asks what can explain the lack of full implementation of the comprehensive approach in the cases of South Sudan, Mali and the Central African Republic. It is shown that EU member states saw the added value of the common EU approach while at the same time they p…
Priorities for International Co-operation with Libya: A Development Perspective
This article provides a development co-operation perspective on the challenges facing Libya during its post-Qadhafi transition. Four key areas for international co-operation are outlined: peace, reconciliation and justice; governance and public administration; economic diversification; and migration. While concrete initiatives in all of these areas depend on Libya’s domestic security situation, they need to be part of a long-term, holistic strate…
“Donorship” and strategic policy‐making: Germany’s Middle Eastern and North African aid programme since the Arab uprisings
EU development policy: Evolving as an instrument of foreign policy and as an expression of solidarity
This article introduces the special issue on the evolution of European Union development policy, against the background of fundamental challenges that have emerged since the 2009 Lisbon Treaty. The special issue’s objective is to highlight the complex dynamics of a policy area that is called on to address the massive challenges of poverty, inequality, healthcare capacity, climate change, insecurity and weak governance in countries of the global s…
Reconstituting social contracts in conflict-affected Mena countries: Whither Iraq and Libya
This article discusses the prospects for forging new social contracts in highly fragile and conflict affected countries. Building on analytical insights from the political settlements and state fragility literature, conceptualising peacebuilding processes as efforts to forge social contracts enables us to address the roles of governments, social groups, citizens and external stakeholders. We discuss the potential for peacebuilding processes to re…
Promoting Policy Coherence within the 2030 Agenda Framework: Externalities, Trade-Offs and Politics
The promotion of Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development is one of the 169 targets of the 2030 Agenda, and considered a key means of implementation. The 2030 Agenda, while noble and necessary to put humanity on a sustainable path, has vastly exacerbated the complexity and ambiguity of development policymaking. This article challenges two assumptions that are common in both policy discussions and associated scholarly debates: First, the techn…
Intermediary organizations, international cooperation and the changing social contract: Morocco’s new development model
In 2021, King Mohammed VI's appointed commission released a new vision for Moroccan state-society relations: the New Development Model (Nouveau Modèle de Développement, NMD). Presented as a 'national collective and federative project', it entailed a social protection system called a 'social pact' or 'social contract'. The King's vision articulated in the NMD promises changes that many Moroccans have long been calling for. The government has creat…
Drivers of change in social contracts: Building a conceptual framework
Social contracts have recently re-emerged as a field of research. They can stabilize the relationship between state and society by establishing some predictability about the mutual deliverables between actors - especially if they are flexible for modifications to take account of changes in the framework conditions, the positions and preferences of their parties, and prevailing norms, values and ideologies. The question is, thus, when, why and how…
Two Norms Collide: EU Policy on Fragile and Conflict‐Affected Countries
The European Union's (EU's) policy towards fragile and conflict‐affected (FCA) countries has been framed by a normative solidarity narrative that promotes and legitimises collective action. Over the past two decades, the EU's commitment to protecting the security of its citizens has increasingly become a strong, competing normative driver of EU engagement in FCA countries. In tracing its evolution, this symposium article shows how the collision o…
European aid and democracy support to Mena countries after the Arab Uprisings: A critical juncture missed
The Arab Uprisings represent a critical juncture for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), even though they did not result in the democratic change that many expected at the time. To what extent do European development donors use aid to support democracy in MENA countries when faced by such a critical juncture? We examine the policy and operational responses of four major European donors: France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the European In…
Political science (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · International Development and Aid (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)