Chris Van Der Borgh
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 121465 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chris Van Der Borgh |
| PRENOMES | Chris |
| SOBRENOME | Van Der Borgh |
| ASSINATURA | VAN DER BORGH C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Utrecht University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Rules and laws in contexts of protracted conflict
Unruly law. Rule of law and rules of the game in arenas of government – gang interaction in El Salvador
This article explores the rules and laws that govern the ways in which different state agents deal with and relate to street gangs in El Salvador. By conceptualising the state as a field of power, it discusses a number of arenas in which different types of state actors interact with gangs. Each arena is governed by a set of rules, which affect the practices and images of state law. The arena approach sheds light on the different ways in which sta…
Everyday Security Practices in Gang-Controlled Neighborhoods in San Salvador
This article looks at the everyday security practices of local residents in violent local orders, where capacities and strategies of state and non-state armed actors to produce regularity and stability are weak and contested. It discusses the case of gang-controlled neighborhoods in the metropolitan area of Greater San Salvador, El Salvador, in the years 2017–2018, when security “provision” of armed state and non-state actors was weak and contest…
Negotiating civic space in Lebanon
Shrinking civic space is a global trend in governance impeding citizens’ enjoyment of the fundamental freedoms of association, expression and peaceful assembly. While deeply affected by this phenomenon, civil society organizations and collectives in Lebanon have cultivated a series of non-sectarian opposition movements that warrant an assessment of how these may contribute to reconciling deeply divided identities. The authors examine the specific…
Securitization of Muslims in Myanmar’s Early Transition (2010–15)
Between 2010 and 2015, as Myanmar transitioned from authoritarian rule to a more liberal and democratic state, its Muslim population increasingly faced hate speech and violence. This article goes beyond analyses that regard the growing anti-Muslim sentiment as a consequence of a liberalized media environment, enabling people to voice long-standing grievances and prejudice. Rather, the notion of a “Muslim threat” to Myanmar’s Buddhist population i…
Faith-Based Organizations, Community Development, and Room of Manoeuvre in Gang Controlled Neighbourhoods in San Salvador
This paper aims to contribute to our understanding of the feasibility and effectiveness of development interventions in situations of chronic violence, paying particular attention to the capacity and room of manoeuvre of intervening organisations in contexts where illicit groups have built up a power position. It analyses the interventions of two faith-based NGOs (FBOs) that aim to reduce violence and promote community development in selected gan…
Government Responses to Gang Power
This paper analyses the challenges that governments face in dealing with illicit armed groups that have built up local power positions. It analyses an accommodating government response to gangs - a local gang truce - in a Salvadoran town, and its aftermath that was characterised by a renewed crack down on gangs. The paper argues that the local truce did not seem to limit the control of gangs, but rather led to some modifications in the use of vio…
The Politics of Violence Reduction
This paper analyses a government-facilitated truce, begun in 2012, between El Salvador's three principal street gangs. Using field theory and securitisation theory, it maps the evolution of the truce, distinguishing between the three related processes of making the deal, keeping the truce, and resisting it. It analyses the complex and intriguing political processes in which various actors, such as gang leaders, government officials and internatio…
Coordinating international interventions in complex settings. An analysis of the EU peace and state-building efforts in post-independence Kosovo
This paper assesses coordination as a salient capability of international interventions in complex settings characterised by weak stakes, the dominance of political elites whose interest in reforms is questionable and multiple local and international stakeholders. It focuses on the challenge of integrating a range of national and international actors and multiple policy domains, assessing this operational capability in terms of a Whole-of-Society…
Political Parties and Minority Governance in Hybrid Political Orders
This article analyses how minority populations govern and are governed in South Lebanon’s informal Palestinian settlements and the Serbian enclave in North Kosovo. Drawing on literature about hybrid political orders, it is argued that in both settings political parties play a linchpin role in local governance. Based on this finding, three key functions of political parties in the governance of minority populations in hybrid political orders are i…
Negotiating security provisioning in a hybrid political order
This paper discusses the emergence of a local defence force, the Arrow Boys, in Western Equatoria State in response to the threats posed by the Lord’s Resistance Army, in a context where the support provided by the state security forces is considered to be inadequate by the local population. The defence force that was put in place led to a series of negotiations between politicians and local leaders supporting the Arrow Boys and the national auth…
De-securitising and Re-securitising Gang Policies
This article analyses the gang policies of the first years of the Funes administration in El Salvador, from June 2009 until July 2012. Using securitisation theory, it explains why the administration returned to an emphasis on extraordinary measures, most of them repressive, to deal with gangs. It argues that these measures were the product of an ongoing and dynamic process in which the government was but one of the players in a complex field cons…
Security Provision after Regime Change
This paper discusses the way the newly formed political entities and the local militias engage in statebuilding practices during Libya's transitional period of 2011-12. Focusing on the encounters between these actors in the security field, it provides insight into the capacity and strategy of national actors to build state structures and to develop the political arrangements that they deem necessary. It does so by identifying the key actors invol…
Parallel Governance and Boundary Strategies in Gracanica, Kosovo
In the period after 1999, the international community abrogated Serbia's sovereignty over Kosovo. It took responsibility for governing Kosovo and actively supported the development of autonomous Kosovar government institutions. Simultaneously, the Serbian authorities immediately started to rebuild Serbian government institutions in the parts of Kosovo that hosted a Serbian majority population. This article analyzes how this situation of parallel …
Resisting International State Building in Kosovo
Between 1999 and 2008, Kosovo Serbs built governance structures to parallel those of Kosovo Albanians as a form of resistance to international administration, but these institutions became an arena of domestic political contestation for elite Serbian groups
Shrinking operational space of NGOs - a framework of analysis
NGOs face many types of pressures that limit and influence their activities. While in many studies these pressures and the causes and agendas behind them have been the focus of analysis, this paper provides a framework that can give insight into the ways in which the pressures play out in diverse contexts and affect different NGOs in distinct ways. It develops an analytical model that combines the local political context, the specific mix of poli…
International Statebuilding and Contentious Universities in Kosovo
This article discusses the politics of international administration and ownership in Kosovo, examining the case of the rebuilding of the higher education system in the period 1999–2007. It looks at the practice of international administration, analysing both the efforts of international actors to rebuild the Kosovar university system and the responses of local actors resisting and deeply influencing this process. A fine-grained reconstruction of …
A Role for Diplomats in Postwar Transitions? The Case of the International Committee in Support of the Transition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This paper examines the contributions made by the International Committee in Support of the Transition (CIAT), a diplomatic mechanism representing fifteen states and international organizations that was mandated by the peace agreements signed between the warring parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo in December 2002. The paper argues that CIAT played an essential managing role in the extremely complex transition process. Not only did CIAT m…
Postconflict Development
With the proliferation of civil wars since the end of the Cold War, many developing countries now exist in a "postconflict" environment, posing enormous development challenges for the societies affected, as well as for international actors. Postconflict Development addresses these challenges in a range of vital sectors—security, justice, economic policy, education, the media, agriculture, health, and the environment in countries around the globe.…
The Politics of Neoliberalism in Postwar El Salvador
(2000). The Politics of Neoliberalism in Postwar El Salvador. International Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 30, Oligarchical Neoliberalism and Democratic Transition in Central America and the Carribean, pp. 36-54
Comparación de cuatro modelos contemporáneos de desarrollo en América Latina
Análisis de cuatro modelos contemporáneos de desarrollo de América Latina: el neoliberal, el neoestructural, el de desarrollo humano y el desarrollo alternativo. El artículo se pregunta por el planteamiento de estos enfoques sobre el crecimiento económico y la pobreza, la participación y las organizaciones no gubernamentales, el rol del Estado y el contexto internacional. Al final se subraya la importancia de las relaciones de poder y la conflict…
A Comparison of Four Development Models in Latin America
Shrinking operational space of NGOs - a framework of analysis
NGOs face many types of pressures that limit and influence their activities. While in many studies these pressures and the causes and agendas behind them have been the focus of analysis, this paper provides a framework that can give insight into the ways in which the pressures play out in diverse contexts and affect different NGOs in distinct ways. It develops an analytical model that combines the local political context, the specific mix of poli…
De-securitising and Re-securitising Gang Policies
This article analyses the gang policies of the first years of the Funes administration in El Salvador, from June 2009 until July 2012. Using securitisation theory, it explains why the administration returned to an emphasis on extraordinary measures, most of them repressive, to deal with gangs. It argues that these measures were the product of an ongoing and dynamic process in which the government was but one of the players in a complex field cons…
The Politics of Violence Reduction
This paper analyses a government-facilitated truce, begun in 2012, between El Salvador's three principal street gangs. Using field theory and securitisation theory, it maps the evolution of the truce, distinguishing between the three related processes of making the deal, keeping the truce, and resisting it. It analyses the complex and intriguing political processes in which various actors, such as gang leaders, government officials and internatio…
Resisting International State Building in Kosovo
Between 1999 and 2008, Kosovo Serbs built governance structures to parallel those of Kosovo Albanians as a form of resistance to international administration, but these institutions became an arena of domestic political contestation for elite Serbian groups
Security Provision after Regime Change
This paper discusses the way the newly formed political entities and the local militias engage in statebuilding practices during Libya's transitional period of 2011-12. Focusing on the encounters between these actors in the security field, it provides insight into the capacity and strategy of national actors to build state structures and to develop the political arrangements that they deem necessary. It does so by identifying the key actors invol…
Negotiating civic space in Lebanon
Shrinking civic space is a global trend in governance impeding citizens’ enjoyment of the fundamental freedoms of association, expression and peaceful assembly. While deeply affected by this phenomenon, civil society organizations and collectives in Lebanon have cultivated a series of non-sectarian opposition movements that warrant an assessment of how these may contribute to reconciling deeply divided identities. The authors examine the specific…
Government Responses to Gang Power
This paper analyses the challenges that governments face in dealing with illicit armed groups that have built up local power positions. It analyses an accommodating government response to gangs - a local gang truce - in a Salvadoran town, and its aftermath that was characterised by a renewed crack down on gangs. The paper argues that the local truce did not seem to limit the control of gangs, but rather led to some modifications in the use of vio…
The Politics of Neoliberalism in Postwar El Salvador
(2000). The Politics of Neoliberalism in Postwar El Salvador. International Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 30, Oligarchical Neoliberalism and Democratic Transition in Central America and the Carribean, pp. 36-54
Faith-Based Organizations, Community Development, and Room of Manoeuvre in Gang Controlled Neighbourhoods in San Salvador
This paper aims to contribute to our understanding of the feasibility and effectiveness of development interventions in situations of chronic violence, paying particular attention to the capacity and room of manoeuvre of intervening organisations in contexts where illicit groups have built up a power position. It analyses the interventions of two faith-based NGOs (FBOs) that aim to reduce violence and promote community development in selected gan…
Negotiating security provisioning in a hybrid political order
This paper discusses the emergence of a local defence force, the Arrow Boys, in Western Equatoria State in response to the threats posed by the Lord’s Resistance Army, in a context where the support provided by the state security forces is considered to be inadequate by the local population. The defence force that was put in place led to a series of negotiations between politicians and local leaders supporting the Arrow Boys and the national auth…
A Comparison of Four Development Models in Latin America
Coordinating international interventions in complex settings. An analysis of the EU peace and state-building efforts in post-independence Kosovo
This paper assesses coordination as a salient capability of international interventions in complex settings characterised by weak stakes, the dominance of political elites whose interest in reforms is questionable and multiple local and international stakeholders. It focuses on the challenge of integrating a range of national and international actors and multiple policy domains, assessing this operational capability in terms of a Whole-of-Society…
Political Parties and Minority Governance in Hybrid Political Orders
This article analyses how minority populations govern and are governed in South Lebanon’s informal Palestinian settlements and the Serbian enclave in North Kosovo. Drawing on literature about hybrid political orders, it is argued that in both settings political parties play a linchpin role in local governance. Based on this finding, three key functions of political parties in the governance of minority populations in hybrid political orders are i…
A Role for Diplomats in Postwar Transitions? The Case of the International Committee in Support of the Transition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This paper examines the contributions made by the International Committee in Support of the Transition (CIAT), a diplomatic mechanism representing fifteen states and international organizations that was mandated by the peace agreements signed between the warring parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo in December 2002. The paper argues that CIAT played an essential managing role in the extremely complex transition process. Not only did CIAT m…
A Comparison of Four Development Models in Latin America
Comparación de cuatro modelos contemporáneos de desarrollo en América Latina
Análisis de cuatro modelos contemporáneos de desarrollo de América Latina: el neoliberal, el neoestructural, el de desarrollo humano y el desarrollo alternativo. El artículo se pregunta por el planteamiento de estos enfoques sobre el crecimiento económico y la pobreza, la participación y las organizaciones no gubernamentales, el rol del Estado y el contexto internacional. Al final se subraya la importancia de las relaciones de poder y la conflict…
The Politics of Neoliberalism in Postwar El Salvador
(2000). The Politics of Neoliberalism in Postwar El Salvador. International Journal of Political Economy: Vol. 30, Oligarchical Neoliberalism and Democratic Transition in Central America and the Carribean, pp. 36-54
Postconflict Development
With the proliferation of civil wars since the end of the Cold War, many developing countries now exist in a "postconflict" environment, posing enormous development challenges for the societies affected, as well as for international actors. Postconflict Development addresses these challenges in a range of vital sectors—security, justice, economic policy, education, the media, agriculture, health, and the environment in countries around the globe.…
A Role for Diplomats in Postwar Transitions? The Case of the International Committee in Support of the Transition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This paper examines the contributions made by the International Committee in Support of the Transition (CIAT), a diplomatic mechanism representing fifteen states and international organizations that was mandated by the peace agreements signed between the warring parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo in December 2002. The paper argues that CIAT played an essential managing role in the extremely complex transition process. Not only did CIAT m…
International Statebuilding and Contentious Universities in Kosovo
This article discusses the politics of international administration and ownership in Kosovo, examining the case of the rebuilding of the higher education system in the period 1999–2007. It looks at the practice of international administration, analysing both the efforts of international actors to rebuild the Kosovar university system and the responses of local actors resisting and deeply influencing this process. A fine-grained reconstruction of …
Resisting International State Building in Kosovo
Between 1999 and 2008, Kosovo Serbs built governance structures to parallel those of Kosovo Albanians as a form of resistance to international administration, but these institutions became an arena of domestic political contestation for elite Serbian groups
Shrinking operational space of NGOs - a framework of analysis
NGOs face many types of pressures that limit and influence their activities. While in many studies these pressures and the causes and agendas behind them have been the focus of analysis, this paper provides a framework that can give insight into the ways in which the pressures play out in diverse contexts and affect different NGOs in distinct ways. It develops an analytical model that combines the local political context, the specific mix of poli…
Parallel Governance and Boundary Strategies in Gracanica, Kosovo
In the period after 1999, the international community abrogated Serbia's sovereignty over Kosovo. It took responsibility for governing Kosovo and actively supported the development of autonomous Kosovar government institutions. Simultaneously, the Serbian authorities immediately started to rebuild Serbian government institutions in the parts of Kosovo that hosted a Serbian majority population. This article analyzes how this situation of parallel …
Security Provision after Regime Change
This paper discusses the way the newly formed political entities and the local militias engage in statebuilding practices during Libya's transitional period of 2011-12. Focusing on the encounters between these actors in the security field, it provides insight into the capacity and strategy of national actors to build state structures and to develop the political arrangements that they deem necessary. It does so by identifying the key actors invol…
De-securitising and Re-securitising Gang Policies
This article analyses the gang policies of the first years of the Funes administration in El Salvador, from June 2009 until July 2012. Using securitisation theory, it explains why the administration returned to an emphasis on extraordinary measures, most of them repressive, to deal with gangs. It argues that these measures were the product of an ongoing and dynamic process in which the government was but one of the players in a complex field cons…
Negotiating security provisioning in a hybrid political order
This paper discusses the emergence of a local defence force, the Arrow Boys, in Western Equatoria State in response to the threats posed by the Lord’s Resistance Army, in a context where the support provided by the state security forces is considered to be inadequate by the local population. The defence force that was put in place led to a series of negotiations between politicians and local leaders supporting the Arrow Boys and the national auth…
Political Parties and Minority Governance in Hybrid Political Orders
This article analyses how minority populations govern and are governed in South Lebanon’s informal Palestinian settlements and the Serbian enclave in North Kosovo. Drawing on literature about hybrid political orders, it is argued that in both settings political parties play a linchpin role in local governance. Based on this finding, three key functions of political parties in the governance of minority populations in hybrid political orders are i…
Coordinating international interventions in complex settings. An analysis of the EU peace and state-building efforts in post-independence Kosovo
This paper assesses coordination as a salient capability of international interventions in complex settings characterised by weak stakes, the dominance of political elites whose interest in reforms is questionable and multiple local and international stakeholders. It focuses on the challenge of integrating a range of national and international actors and multiple policy domains, assessing this operational capability in terms of a Whole-of-Society…
Government Responses to Gang Power
This paper analyses the challenges that governments face in dealing with illicit armed groups that have built up local power positions. It analyses an accommodating government response to gangs - a local gang truce - in a Salvadoran town, and its aftermath that was characterised by a renewed crack down on gangs. The paper argues that the local truce did not seem to limit the control of gangs, but rather led to some modifications in the use of vio…
The Politics of Violence Reduction
This paper analyses a government-facilitated truce, begun in 2012, between El Salvador's three principal street gangs. Using field theory and securitisation theory, it maps the evolution of the truce, distinguishing between the three related processes of making the deal, keeping the truce, and resisting it. It analyses the complex and intriguing political processes in which various actors, such as gang leaders, government officials and internatio…
Negotiating civic space in Lebanon
Shrinking civic space is a global trend in governance impeding citizens’ enjoyment of the fundamental freedoms of association, expression and peaceful assembly. While deeply affected by this phenomenon, civil society organizations and collectives in Lebanon have cultivated a series of non-sectarian opposition movements that warrant an assessment of how these may contribute to reconciling deeply divided identities. The authors examine the specific…
Securitization of Muslims in Myanmar’s Early Transition (2010–15)
Between 2010 and 2015, as Myanmar transitioned from authoritarian rule to a more liberal and democratic state, its Muslim population increasingly faced hate speech and violence. This article goes beyond analyses that regard the growing anti-Muslim sentiment as a consequence of a liberalized media environment, enabling people to voice long-standing grievances and prejudice. Rather, the notion of a “Muslim threat” to Myanmar’s Buddhist population i…
Faith-Based Organizations, Community Development, and Room of Manoeuvre in Gang Controlled Neighbourhoods in San Salvador
This paper aims to contribute to our understanding of the feasibility and effectiveness of development interventions in situations of chronic violence, paying particular attention to the capacity and room of manoeuvre of intervening organisations in contexts where illicit groups have built up a power position. It analyses the interventions of two faith-based NGOs (FBOs) that aim to reduce violence and promote community development in selected gan…
Unruly law. Rule of law and rules of the game in arenas of government – gang interaction in El Salvador
This article explores the rules and laws that govern the ways in which different state agents deal with and relate to street gangs in El Salvador. By conceptualising the state as a field of power, it discusses a number of arenas in which different types of state actors interact with gangs. Each arena is governed by a set of rules, which affect the practices and images of state law. The arena approach sheds light on the different ways in which sta…
Everyday Security Practices in Gang-Controlled Neighborhoods in San Salvador
This article looks at the everyday security practices of local residents in violent local orders, where capacities and strategies of state and non-state armed actors to produce regularity and stability are weak and contested. It discusses the case of gang-controlled neighborhoods in the metropolitan area of Greater San Salvador, El Salvador, in the years 2017–2018, when security “provision” of armed state and non-state actors was weak and contest…
Rules and laws in contexts of protracted conflict
Political science (21 obras) · Law (19 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Politics (14 obras) · Political economy (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Peacebuilding and International Security (9 obras) · Public Administration (7 obras) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (6 obras) · Geography (6 obras)