Jacob Mundy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 170139 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jacob Mundy |
| PRENOMES | Jacob |
| SOBRENOME | Mundy |
| ASSINATURA | MUNDY J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Colgate University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4166-7736 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Geopolitical Concepts as Ideational Technologies
Of all the geopolitical concepts to emerge in the twentieth century, the Middle East is arguably one of the most consequential yet contested. In an effort to understand the power and durability of the idea of the Middle East, this paper will reframe it as an ideational technology. A review of earlier efforts to understand the emergence and functions of this geopolitical concept will draw upon insights from the critique of ideology in the historic…
A Theoretical War
This review surveys two decades of academic research on the question of contemporary imperialism and holds it up against the historical record of America’s increasingly violent entanglements in the Middle East over the course of the previous half century, though particularly since 2001. While early contributions to this literature emerged from a different context than the one they often sought or were expected to explain, others attributed a simp…
Western Sahara
Libya
Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence
Using the war in 1990s Algeria as a point of departure, this study examines the ways in which the science and management of armed conflicts after Cold War has become increasingly reliant upon antipolitical, and thus highly defective, understandings of mass violence
The Middle East is Violence
For years, there has been debate as to whether or not the Middle East experiences more armed conflict – and for different reasons – than other regions in the world. Absent is any consideration of the grounds upon which such regional comparisons are possible. Rather than providing a general account of regions, this article instead provides a theory of the Middle East based on the violent practices that have made and reproduced the Middle East as a…
The Geopolitical Functions of the Western Sahara Conflict
The Western Sahara dispute, now in its fourth decade, appears to be a forgotten and frozen conflict. In reality, the conflict and its perpetual irresolution are central to the ways in which USA hegemony was reconstituted in the late Cold War and the processes through which Washington has been able to reproduce its global dominance since then. At the same time, the irresolution of the Western Sahara conflict—a perpetual crisis at the heart of the …
Nations Torn Asunder
Le choc des décolonisations
Imperial identities
Imperial Identities by Patricia Lorcin's is an erudite and ultimately compelling account of the constitution of racial identities in French Algeria. First published in 1995, it quickly became requi
The Post-Conflict Environment
In case studies focusing on contemporary crises spanning Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, the scholars in this volume examine the dominant prescriptive practices of late neoliberal post-conflict interventions—such as statebuilding, peacebuilding, transitional justice, refugee management, reconstruction, and redevelopment—and contend that the post-conflict environment is in fact created and sustained by this international technocratic …
The science, aesthetics and management of late warfare
The articles in this special issue elaborate unique but complimentary understandings of late warfare. For us, late warfare is not necessarily a new ontology or distinct practice of war. Our investigations rather examine late warfare in three ways: as something produced by scientific investigation; as an aesthetic with the power to elucidate the broader conditions of its possibility as it performatively constitutes itself; and as a security challe…
"Wanton and Senseless" Revisited
Over the past two decades, attention in the social sciences increasingly has been drawn to the problem of violent civil conflicts, a problem that has disproportionately affected Africa more than any other region. Two approaches to this problem have come to dominate the field: attempts to understand the root causes of civil conflict and attempts to understand the dynamics of its violence. Critics of the former approach have elaborated the ways in …
Deconstructing civil wars
The identification of intra-national armed conflict as a leading problem for the international community in the 1990s produced a wave of novel research into civil wars. Though these new civil war studies soon began to claim a degree of consensus on several key questions, the very concept and ontology of civil war has been implicitly and explicitly contested. An examination of the politics of naming civil wars likewise reveals the extent to which …
Pragmatism, politics and the politiography of civil wars
While Håvard Strand’s rejoinder to ‘Deconstructing civil wars’ is a welcome invitation to dialogue, its criticisms are grounded in a fundamental misreading of my article. Here I will attempt to address the sources of confusion, which stem from poor execution on my part and some theoretical blinders on the part of the author of the rejoinder. This response will clarify my ethical and theoretical concerns with the way in which mass intra-territoria…
Western Sahara
Expert intervention
Civil wars and humanitarian intervention became two of the most dominant security concerns of the 1990s and Algeria was one of the many sites where these discourses were played out, especially during the wave of massacres that claimed the lives of hundreds (if not thousands) of Algerian civilians between mid-1997 and early 1998. The internationalization of the Algerian Civil War was driven as much by the horrific violence as by a lack of certaint…
Identity in Algerian Politics
Algeria is a country haunted by history. During Algeria’s civil conflict of the 1990s, commentators, journalists, academics and politicians were quick to cast the former French colony in the role of victim, a nation suffering the revenge of its own bloody history. Over time, violence had encoded itself into the Algerian psyche, inscribed and reinscribed itself into the Algerian polity. For many, it is the endured and learned violence of French co…
Historical dictionary of Western Sahara, Third Edition
The Morocco–Polisario war for Western Sahara, 1975–1991
Managing Instability in Algeria
Managing Instability in Algeria: Elites and Political Change since 1995, by Isabelle Werenfels, London and New York: Routledge, 2007; pp. 245. £75.00 (hb). ISBN: 9780415403443. In the late colonial
Out with the Old, in with the New
The closing months of 2008 saw the end of a chapter and the opening of a new one in the Western Sahara conflict. Over the past three years, the peace process in Western Sahara, what the United Nations considers Africa’s last colony, was under the guidance of former Dutch diplomat Peter Van Walsum, who lost his position as UN Secretary General Personal Envoy at the end of August. Taking up where Van Walsum left off, the United States put forward t…
Performing the nation, pre-figuring the state
Recent social, economic and political changes in the Western Saharan refugee camps in southwest Algeria have import not only for the project of Western Saharan nationalism, but also for the ongoing peace process. These are examined through a background to the Western Sahara conflict, and an appraisal of the camps' internal processes of elite politics, self-management and recent post-war socio-economic change
The Morocco–Polisario war for Western Sahara, 1975–1991
Colonial borders are arbitrary yet sacrosanct. This dictum lies at the heart of the Western Sahara conflict. On the one hand, there is the sacrosanct right of self-determination that grounds Western Saharan nationalism. On the other hand, there are arbitrary colonial boundaries that have engendered Moroccan irredentism. Nationalism and irredentism are the two ideas that lie at the heart of the dispute between the Kingdom of Morocco and Sahrawi na…
Moroccan Settlers in Western Sahara
Since assuming control of the former Spanish Sahara in 1976, Morocco has encouraged between 200 000 and 300 000 of its citizens to settle there. As a result of this settlement campaign, combined wi
Performing the nation, pre-figuring the state
Recent social, economic and political changes in the Western Saharan refugee camps in southwest Algeria have import not only for the project of Western Saharan nationalism, but also for the ongoing peace process. These are examined through a background to the Western Sahara conflict, and an appraisal of the camps' internal processes of elite politics, self-management and recent post-war socio-economic change
Neutrality or complicity? The United States and the 1975 Moroccan takeover of the Spanish Sahara
From mid-October to mid-November 1975, the Spanish Sahara was the site of a tense standoff between the governments of Spain and Morocco. By the end of the crisis, Madrid had abandoned its colony to Rabat, precipitating the now thirty-year-old conflict for Western Sahara between Morocco and the independence front Polisario. For many years, analysis of the US role in the 1975 Sahara crisis has had to rely on much speculation and little fact. This i…
Deconstructing civil wars
The identification of intra-national armed conflict as a leading problem for the international community in the 1990s produced a wave of novel research into civil wars. Though these new civil war studies soon began to claim a degree of consensus on several key questions, the very concept and ontology of civil war has been implicitly and explicitly contested. An examination of the politics of naming civil wars likewise reveals the extent to which …
Moroccan Settlers in Western Sahara
Since assuming control of the former Spanish Sahara in 1976, Morocco has encouraged between 200 000 and 300 000 of its citizens to settle there. As a result of this settlement campaign, combined wi
Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence
Using the war in 1990s Algeria as a point of departure, this study examines the ways in which the science and management of armed conflicts after Cold War has become increasingly reliant upon antipolitical, and thus highly defective, understandings of mass violence
The Middle East is Violence
For years, there has been debate as to whether or not the Middle East experiences more armed conflict – and for different reasons – than other regions in the world. Absent is any consideration of the grounds upon which such regional comparisons are possible. Rather than providing a general account of regions, this article instead provides a theory of the Middle East based on the violent practices that have made and reproduced the Middle East as a…
Autonomy & Intifadah
The Western Sahara conflict entered its thirtieth year last November. Celebrated by Moroccans and lamented by Sahrawi nationalists, the anniversary went largely unnoticed by the international community. Though it has been on the Security Council's agenda since 1988, Western Sahara has defied resolution by three successive Secretaries General and Kofi Annan's former personal envoy, former US Secretary of State James Baker. It is likely that a four…
Out with the Old, in with the New
The closing months of 2008 saw the end of a chapter and the opening of a new one in the Western Sahara conflict. Over the past three years, the peace process in Western Sahara, what the United Nations considers Africa’s last colony, was under the guidance of former Dutch diplomat Peter Van Walsum, who lost his position as UN Secretary General Personal Envoy at the end of August. Taking up where Van Walsum left off, the United States put forward t…
Seized of the Matter”
Jacob A. Mundy is a graduate student in Middle East studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle. From 1999 to 2000 he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco
"Wanton and Senseless" Revisited
Over the past two decades, attention in the social sciences increasingly has been drawn to the problem of violent civil conflicts, a problem that has disproportionately affected Africa more than any other region. Two approaches to this problem have come to dominate the field: attempts to understand the root causes of civil conflict and attempts to understand the dynamics of its violence. Critics of the former approach have elaborated the ways in …
Pragmatism, politics and the politiography of civil wars
While Håvard Strand’s rejoinder to ‘Deconstructing civil wars’ is a welcome invitation to dialogue, its criticisms are grounded in a fundamental misreading of my article. Here I will attempt to address the sources of confusion, which stem from poor execution on my part and some theoretical blinders on the part of the author of the rejoinder. This response will clarify my ethical and theoretical concerns with the way in which mass intra-territoria…
Seized of the Matter”
Jacob A. Mundy is a graduate student in Middle East studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle. From 1999 to 2000 he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco
Autonomy & Intifadah
The Western Sahara conflict entered its thirtieth year last November. Celebrated by Moroccans and lamented by Sahrawi nationalists, the anniversary went largely unnoticed by the international community. Though it has been on the Security Council's agenda since 1988, Western Sahara has defied resolution by three successive Secretaries General and Kofi Annan's former personal envoy, former US Secretary of State James Baker. It is likely that a four…
Neutrality or complicity? The United States and the 1975 Moroccan takeover of the Spanish Sahara
From mid-October to mid-November 1975, the Spanish Sahara was the site of a tense standoff between the governments of Spain and Morocco. By the end of the crisis, Madrid had abandoned its colony to Rabat, precipitating the now thirty-year-old conflict for Western Sahara between Morocco and the independence front Polisario. For many years, analysis of the US role in the 1975 Sahara crisis has had to rely on much speculation and little fact. This i…
Performing the nation, pre-figuring the state
Recent social, economic and political changes in the Western Saharan refugee camps in southwest Algeria have import not only for the project of Western Saharan nationalism, but also for the ongoing peace process. These are examined through a background to the Western Sahara conflict, and an appraisal of the camps' internal processes of elite politics, self-management and recent post-war socio-economic change
The Morocco–Polisario war for Western Sahara, 1975–1991
Managing Instability in Algeria
Managing Instability in Algeria: Elites and Political Change since 1995, by Isabelle Werenfels, London and New York: Routledge, 2007; pp. 245. £75.00 (hb). ISBN: 9780415403443. In the late colonial
Out with the Old, in with the New
The closing months of 2008 saw the end of a chapter and the opening of a new one in the Western Sahara conflict. Over the past three years, the peace process in Western Sahara, what the United Nations considers Africa’s last colony, was under the guidance of former Dutch diplomat Peter Van Walsum, who lost his position as UN Secretary General Personal Envoy at the end of August. Taking up where Van Walsum left off, the United States put forward t…
Western Sahara
Expert intervention
Civil wars and humanitarian intervention became two of the most dominant security concerns of the 1990s and Algeria was one of the many sites where these discourses were played out, especially during the wave of massacres that claimed the lives of hundreds (if not thousands) of Algerian civilians between mid-1997 and early 1998. The internationalization of the Algerian Civil War was driven as much by the horrific violence as by a lack of certaint…
Identity in Algerian Politics
Algeria is a country haunted by history. During Algeria’s civil conflict of the 1990s, commentators, journalists, academics and politicians were quick to cast the former French colony in the role of victim, a nation suffering the revenge of its own bloody history. Over time, violence had encoded itself into the Algerian psyche, inscribed and reinscribed itself into the Algerian polity. For many, it is the endured and learned violence of French co…
Historical dictionary of Western Sahara, Third Edition
Deconstructing civil wars
The identification of intra-national armed conflict as a leading problem for the international community in the 1990s produced a wave of novel research into civil wars. Though these new civil war studies soon began to claim a degree of consensus on several key questions, the very concept and ontology of civil war has been implicitly and explicitly contested. An examination of the politics of naming civil wars likewise reveals the extent to which …
Pragmatism, politics and the politiography of civil wars
While Håvard Strand’s rejoinder to ‘Deconstructing civil wars’ is a welcome invitation to dialogue, its criticisms are grounded in a fundamental misreading of my article. Here I will attempt to address the sources of confusion, which stem from poor execution on my part and some theoretical blinders on the part of the author of the rejoinder. This response will clarify my ethical and theoretical concerns with the way in which mass intra-territoria…
The science, aesthetics and management of late warfare
The articles in this special issue elaborate unique but complimentary understandings of late warfare. For us, late warfare is not necessarily a new ontology or distinct practice of war. Our investigations rather examine late warfare in three ways: as something produced by scientific investigation; as an aesthetic with the power to elucidate the broader conditions of its possibility as it performatively constitutes itself; and as a security challe…
"Wanton and Senseless" Revisited
Over the past two decades, attention in the social sciences increasingly has been drawn to the problem of violent civil conflicts, a problem that has disproportionately affected Africa more than any other region. Two approaches to this problem have come to dominate the field: attempts to understand the root causes of civil conflict and attempts to understand the dynamics of its violence. Critics of the former approach have elaborated the ways in …
The Post-Conflict Environment
In case studies focusing on contemporary crises spanning Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, the scholars in this volume examine the dominant prescriptive practices of late neoliberal post-conflict interventions—such as statebuilding, peacebuilding, transitional justice, refugee management, reconstruction, and redevelopment—and contend that the post-conflict environment is in fact created and sustained by this international technocratic …
Imperial identities
Imperial Identities by Patricia Lorcin's is an erudite and ultimately compelling account of the constitution of racial identities in French Algeria. First published in 1995, it quickly became requi
The Geopolitical Functions of the Western Sahara Conflict
The Western Sahara dispute, now in its fourth decade, appears to be a forgotten and frozen conflict. In reality, the conflict and its perpetual irresolution are central to the ways in which USA hegemony was reconstituted in the late Cold War and the processes through which Washington has been able to reproduce its global dominance since then. At the same time, the irresolution of the Western Sahara conflict—a perpetual crisis at the heart of the …
Nations Torn Asunder
Le choc des décolonisations
The Middle East is Violence
For years, there has been debate as to whether or not the Middle East experiences more armed conflict – and for different reasons – than other regions in the world. Absent is any consideration of the grounds upon which such regional comparisons are possible. Rather than providing a general account of regions, this article instead provides a theory of the Middle East based on the violent practices that have made and reproduced the Middle East as a…
Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence
Using the war in 1990s Algeria as a point of departure, this study examines the ways in which the science and management of armed conflicts after Cold War has become increasingly reliant upon antipolitical, and thus highly defective, understandings of mass violence
Libya
Western Sahara
A Theoretical War
This review surveys two decades of academic research on the question of contemporary imperialism and holds it up against the historical record of America’s increasingly violent entanglements in the Middle East over the course of the previous half century, though particularly since 2001. While early contributions to this literature emerged from a different context than the one they often sought or were expected to explain, others attributed a simp…
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