Irene Costantini
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3684183 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Irene Costantini |
| PRENOMES | Irene |
| SOBRENOME | Costantini |
| ASSINATURA | COSTANTINI I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Naples - L'Orientale |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1352-5263 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
(Il)Liberal peace? P5 approaches to conflict management and resolution
The framework of liberal peace – once the hallmark of a Western-led international order – is now in deep crisis. Its decline coincides with the rise of non-Western actors proposing alternative models of conflict management and resolution. This article challenges the assumption that Western states always pursue conflict resolution objectives, while non-Western states focus on conflict management tasks through illiberal approaches. Drawing on role …
A Perception-Based Approach to Evaluating Legitimacy
Stabilizing Postwar Iraq
Over the last decade, stabilization has gained ground as a pragmatic, short‐term response to conflict and terrorism. While efforts to achieve a shared‐upon doctrinal understanding of this international practice proved inconclusive, stabilization work in Iraq since 2014 offers valuable insights to evaluate the relevance of the concept and the challenges it faces in its implemention. This article assesses the antinomies of stabilization in the cont…
The P5 and international intervention
This article examines the crisis of the liberal peace through the lens of ontological security. While existing scholarship has analysed the erosion of consensus around peacemaking from a geopolitical or a normative point of view, this study extends the debate by exploring how contestation of the liberal peace disrupts the identities of its promoters. Through qualitative discourse analysis of speeches delivered by the Permanent Five (P5) members o…
Navigating the Covid-19 Pandemic in Consociational Systems
Pizzorno’s distinction between ‘manifest’ and ‘hidden’ politics helps to explain the resilience of the consociational systems of Lebanon and Iraq in times of crises. Through the lens of ‘manifest’ politics, the Lebanese and Iraqi political systems are permanently on the brink of collapse. By contrast, through the lens of ‘hidden’ politics, the Lebanese and Iraqi political systems manifest their organised resilience. This comparative analysis of t…
A Twenty-Year Reflection of the Iraqi Invasion, Occupation and Resulting Interventions
2023 marks the twenty-year anniversary of the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq. This Special Issue collects contributions that reflect on the one hand, upon changing assumptions, worldviews, and the policy paradigms informing the international intervention in Iraq; and, on the other hand, on its direct and indirect effects on the political, economic, and social developments in the country. Focusing on different themes, actors, and geographica…
Conflict Mitigation versus Governance
Consociational power sharing has become one of the leading mechanisms of governance introduced in deeply divided post-conflict societies. When communal divisions seem intractable, it is seen as a way to use these very divisions to reach an agreement and form a post-conflict government. Using post-2003 Iraq as a case study, this article critically examines consociation in practice. It argues that consociational power sharing is extremely valuable …
New Authoritarian Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
Examines new authoritarian practices and state control in MENA countries to target and neutralise dissidents Identifies the continuities and discontinuities in the practice of authoritarianism in the MENA region Promotes a comparative approach when analysing new forms of authoritarian control Offers an analysis of 17 MENA counties: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tu…
Twenty Years of Externally Promoted Security Assistance in Iraq
Iraq adds to the poor track record of externally promoted security assistance in conflict-affected and fragile contexts. By taking a long-term perspective, this article examines and problematizes the shift in paradigms from Security Sector Reforms (SSR) as a pillar of the liberal statebuilding intervention in Iraq to Security Force Assistance (SFA) as the remedy that the post-interventionist turn endorsed since the 2010s. In discussing this shift…
Sponsor-proxy dynamics between decentered multipolarity and non-state actors
Contemporary civil conflicts are increasingly inter- and trans-nationalized: distinctive conflict dynamics extend beyond the boundaries of the respective states and are exposed to foreign involvement, in different forms. Within this trend stands the often mentioned but yet to be fully grasped role of non-state actors, referred to as, among others, proxies, mercenaries, militias (pro-government or not), or insurgents. The article revises the debat…
Power mediators and the ‘illiberal peace’ momentum
The civil conflicts that erupted in the Middle East and North Africa as a consequence of the failure of the 2011 Arab uprisings show the limits of mediation as a tool for conflict resolution and of negotiated settlement based on power-sharing as a solution to conflict. The article examines mediation processes in Libya and Syria, problematising the role played by the nature of mediators as well as the broader ideational framework in which they hav…
Waiting for IR Godot? In search of transformative encounters between Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations
Within the Special Issue ‘Reaching for allies? The dialectics and overlaps between International Relations and Area Studies in the study of politics, security, and conflicts’, this article investigates the post-2011 changing relationship between International Relations (IR) and Middle Eastern Studies (MES). The article departs from the assumption that the reading and writing of security in, on and from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regi…
Fragility and resilience in the European Union's security strategy
The article takes fragility and resilience as distinct policy paradigms, and proposes a structured, focused comparison of how they informed and changed the EU approach to conflict and crisis management in time. The first section provides a cumulative synthesis of the debate on fragility and resilience in the international and European security discourse and practice on the background of which their comparison is built. By analysing the founding d…
Federal versus Unitary States
This article contributes to the debate on whether federalism leads to ethnic accommodation and is peace-preserving through comparing the methods of ethnic accommodation in federal and unitary states. Rather than focusing on a large dataset, this article offers an in-depth picture of the role the two systems play in ethnic accommodation, offering a more nuanced understanding. The Kurds (Iraq and Turkey) and Tamils (India and Sri Lanka) have been c…
The Iraqi protest movement
Despite the many constraints it faces, social mobilization has been a relevant yet understudied phenomenon in Iraq after regime-change. Especially since 2011, collective actions such as protests, sit-in and demonstrations have challenged the status quo, amidst cyclical high level of violence and a dysfunctional political system. By identifying a gap at the crossroad of social movement and peace and conflict studies, this article is a preliminary …
Practices of exclusion, narratives of inclusion
This article examines the practices and narratives of inclusion and exclusion in Iraq in relation to ethnic and religious minorities displaced by the Islamic State and the resulting war. Examining the displacement in Iraq through the lens of citizenship, and utilising 29 in-depth qualitative interviews with internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, this article argues that displacement has been accompanied by practices a…
From Liberal Statebuilding to Counterinsurgency and Stabilization
Stabilization approaches have limited transformational ambitions, in particular when compared with previous large-scale peacebuilding interventions. The case of Iraq is illustrative of such an approach. It demonstrates how achieving stability in the country is no longer supposed to be the result of an overall political, economic and social transformation—as postulated in the initial phase of the intervention—but, rather, a precondition to it. Thi…
A Solution in Libya
Unpacking the Displacement‐Migration Nexus
Recent conflicts have increasingly produced a twofold, forced movement of people: internal displacement and forced migration. While the co‐occurrence of these phenomena is an acknowledged fact, there is not yet an understanding of their relation in terms of either the scale or the process contributing to it. This article seeks to fill this gap by questioning the relation between conflict‐induced displacement and migration in and from Iraq. The an…
Statebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa
Conflict dynamics in post-2011 Libya
After the fall of the Qadhafi regime Libya has become a theatre of conflict and violence. In the midst of the vacuum left by the sudden collapse of the old regime, various groups have come to contest their role in a new Libya. Illicit trafficking and the exploitation of oil resources have contributed to this struggle by empowering certain actors over others and by exhausting the capacity of the state. This article investigates the derailing of th…
Statebuilding and Foreign Direct Investment
Within the broader debate over the political economy of statebuilding, the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in fragile and post-conflict settings is increasingly controversial but still understudied. This paper examines the tensions between the good governance agenda currently being implemented in Iraq and the investment dynamics occurring at the country's national and provincial levels. Drawing on disaggregated data, the paper argues that…
Economic Issues in War-to-Peace Transitions
Economic Issues in War-to-Peace Transitions: Old and New Challenges Securing Peace: State-Building and Economic Development in Post-Conflict Countries edited by Richard Kozul-Wright and Piergiusepp
UN mediators in Syria
The Iraqi protest movement
Despite the many constraints it faces, social mobilization has been a relevant yet understudied phenomenon in Iraq after regime-change. Especially since 2011, collective actions such as protests, sit-in and demonstrations have challenged the status quo, amidst cyclical high level of violence and a dysfunctional political system. By identifying a gap at the crossroad of social movement and peace and conflict studies, this article is a preliminary …
Power mediators and the ‘illiberal peace’ momentum
The civil conflicts that erupted in the Middle East and North Africa as a consequence of the failure of the 2011 Arab uprisings show the limits of mediation as a tool for conflict resolution and of negotiated settlement based on power-sharing as a solution to conflict. The article examines mediation processes in Libya and Syria, problematising the role played by the nature of mediators as well as the broader ideational framework in which they hav…
From Liberal Statebuilding to Counterinsurgency and Stabilization
Stabilization approaches have limited transformational ambitions, in particular when compared with previous large-scale peacebuilding interventions. The case of Iraq is illustrative of such an approach. It demonstrates how achieving stability in the country is no longer supposed to be the result of an overall political, economic and social transformation—as postulated in the initial phase of the intervention—but, rather, a precondition to it. Thi…
Conflict Mitigation versus Governance
Consociational power sharing has become one of the leading mechanisms of governance introduced in deeply divided post-conflict societies. When communal divisions seem intractable, it is seen as a way to use these very divisions to reach an agreement and form a post-conflict government. Using post-2003 Iraq as a case study, this article critically examines consociation in practice. It argues that consociational power sharing is extremely valuable …
Fragility and resilience in the European Union's security strategy
The article takes fragility and resilience as distinct policy paradigms, and proposes a structured, focused comparison of how they informed and changed the EU approach to conflict and crisis management in time. The first section provides a cumulative synthesis of the debate on fragility and resilience in the international and European security discourse and practice on the background of which their comparison is built. By analysing the founding d…
Practices of exclusion, narratives of inclusion
This article examines the practices and narratives of inclusion and exclusion in Iraq in relation to ethnic and religious minorities displaced by the Islamic State and the resulting war. Examining the displacement in Iraq through the lens of citizenship, and utilising 29 in-depth qualitative interviews with internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, this article argues that displacement has been accompanied by practices a…
Twenty Years of Externally Promoted Security Assistance in Iraq
Iraq adds to the poor track record of externally promoted security assistance in conflict-affected and fragile contexts. By taking a long-term perspective, this article examines and problematizes the shift in paradigms from Security Sector Reforms (SSR) as a pillar of the liberal statebuilding intervention in Iraq to Security Force Assistance (SFA) as the remedy that the post-interventionist turn endorsed since the 2010s. In discussing this shift…
Sponsor-proxy dynamics between decentered multipolarity and non-state actors
Contemporary civil conflicts are increasingly inter- and trans-nationalized: distinctive conflict dynamics extend beyond the boundaries of the respective states and are exposed to foreign involvement, in different forms. Within this trend stands the often mentioned but yet to be fully grasped role of non-state actors, referred to as, among others, proxies, mercenaries, militias (pro-government or not), or insurgents. The article revises the debat…
Unpacking the Displacement‐Migration Nexus
Recent conflicts have increasingly produced a twofold, forced movement of people: internal displacement and forced migration. While the co‐occurrence of these phenomena is an acknowledged fact, there is not yet an understanding of their relation in terms of either the scale or the process contributing to it. This article seeks to fill this gap by questioning the relation between conflict‐induced displacement and migration in and from Iraq. The an…
Conflict dynamics in post-2011 Libya
After the fall of the Qadhafi regime Libya has become a theatre of conflict and violence. In the midst of the vacuum left by the sudden collapse of the old regime, various groups have come to contest their role in a new Libya. Illicit trafficking and the exploitation of oil resources have contributed to this struggle by empowering certain actors over others and by exhausting the capacity of the state. This article investigates the derailing of th…
Waiting for IR Godot? In search of transformative encounters between Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations
Within the Special Issue ‘Reaching for allies? The dialectics and overlaps between International Relations and Area Studies in the study of politics, security, and conflicts’, this article investigates the post-2011 changing relationship between International Relations (IR) and Middle Eastern Studies (MES). The article departs from the assumption that the reading and writing of security in, on and from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regi…
A Solution in Libya
Statebuilding and Foreign Direct Investment
Within the broader debate over the political economy of statebuilding, the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in fragile and post-conflict settings is increasingly controversial but still understudied. This paper examines the tensions between the good governance agenda currently being implemented in Iraq and the investment dynamics occurring at the country's national and provincial levels. Drawing on disaggregated data, the paper argues that…
Economic Issues in War-to-Peace Transitions
Economic Issues in War-to-Peace Transitions: Old and New Challenges Securing Peace: State-Building and Economic Development in Post-Conflict Countries edited by Richard Kozul-Wright and Piergiusepp
Statebuilding and Foreign Direct Investment
Within the broader debate over the political economy of statebuilding, the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in fragile and post-conflict settings is increasingly controversial but still understudied. This paper examines the tensions between the good governance agenda currently being implemented in Iraq and the investment dynamics occurring at the country's national and provincial levels. Drawing on disaggregated data, the paper argues that…
Conflict dynamics in post-2011 Libya
After the fall of the Qadhafi regime Libya has become a theatre of conflict and violence. In the midst of the vacuum left by the sudden collapse of the old regime, various groups have come to contest their role in a new Libya. Illicit trafficking and the exploitation of oil resources have contributed to this struggle by empowering certain actors over others and by exhausting the capacity of the state. This article investigates the derailing of th…
Statebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa
From Liberal Statebuilding to Counterinsurgency and Stabilization
Stabilization approaches have limited transformational ambitions, in particular when compared with previous large-scale peacebuilding interventions. The case of Iraq is illustrative of such an approach. It demonstrates how achieving stability in the country is no longer supposed to be the result of an overall political, economic and social transformation—as postulated in the initial phase of the intervention—but, rather, a precondition to it. Thi…
A Solution in Libya
Unpacking the Displacement‐Migration Nexus
Recent conflicts have increasingly produced a twofold, forced movement of people: internal displacement and forced migration. While the co‐occurrence of these phenomena is an acknowledged fact, there is not yet an understanding of their relation in terms of either the scale or the process contributing to it. This article seeks to fill this gap by questioning the relation between conflict‐induced displacement and migration in and from Iraq. The an…
Federal versus Unitary States
This article contributes to the debate on whether federalism leads to ethnic accommodation and is peace-preserving through comparing the methods of ethnic accommodation in federal and unitary states. Rather than focusing on a large dataset, this article offers an in-depth picture of the role the two systems play in ethnic accommodation, offering a more nuanced understanding. The Kurds (Iraq and Turkey) and Tamils (India and Sri Lanka) have been c…
The Iraqi protest movement
Despite the many constraints it faces, social mobilization has been a relevant yet understudied phenomenon in Iraq after regime-change. Especially since 2011, collective actions such as protests, sit-in and demonstrations have challenged the status quo, amidst cyclical high level of violence and a dysfunctional political system. By identifying a gap at the crossroad of social movement and peace and conflict studies, this article is a preliminary …
Practices of exclusion, narratives of inclusion
This article examines the practices and narratives of inclusion and exclusion in Iraq in relation to ethnic and religious minorities displaced by the Islamic State and the resulting war. Examining the displacement in Iraq through the lens of citizenship, and utilising 29 in-depth qualitative interviews with internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, this article argues that displacement has been accompanied by practices a…
Fragility and resilience in the European Union's security strategy
The article takes fragility and resilience as distinct policy paradigms, and proposes a structured, focused comparison of how they informed and changed the EU approach to conflict and crisis management in time. The first section provides a cumulative synthesis of the debate on fragility and resilience in the international and European security discourse and practice on the background of which their comparison is built. By analysing the founding d…
New Authoritarian Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
Examines new authoritarian practices and state control in MENA countries to target and neutralise dissidents Identifies the continuities and discontinuities in the practice of authoritarianism in the MENA region Promotes a comparative approach when analysing new forms of authoritarian control Offers an analysis of 17 MENA counties: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tu…
Twenty Years of Externally Promoted Security Assistance in Iraq
Iraq adds to the poor track record of externally promoted security assistance in conflict-affected and fragile contexts. By taking a long-term perspective, this article examines and problematizes the shift in paradigms from Security Sector Reforms (SSR) as a pillar of the liberal statebuilding intervention in Iraq to Security Force Assistance (SFA) as the remedy that the post-interventionist turn endorsed since the 2010s. In discussing this shift…
Sponsor-proxy dynamics between decentered multipolarity and non-state actors
Contemporary civil conflicts are increasingly inter- and trans-nationalized: distinctive conflict dynamics extend beyond the boundaries of the respective states and are exposed to foreign involvement, in different forms. Within this trend stands the often mentioned but yet to be fully grasped role of non-state actors, referred to as, among others, proxies, mercenaries, militias (pro-government or not), or insurgents. The article revises the debat…
Power mediators and the ‘illiberal peace’ momentum
The civil conflicts that erupted in the Middle East and North Africa as a consequence of the failure of the 2011 Arab uprisings show the limits of mediation as a tool for conflict resolution and of negotiated settlement based on power-sharing as a solution to conflict. The article examines mediation processes in Libya and Syria, problematising the role played by the nature of mediators as well as the broader ideational framework in which they hav…
Waiting for IR Godot? In search of transformative encounters between Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations
Within the Special Issue ‘Reaching for allies? The dialectics and overlaps between International Relations and Area Studies in the study of politics, security, and conflicts’, this article investigates the post-2011 changing relationship between International Relations (IR) and Middle Eastern Studies (MES). The article departs from the assumption that the reading and writing of security in, on and from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regi…
Navigating the Covid-19 Pandemic in Consociational Systems
Pizzorno’s distinction between ‘manifest’ and ‘hidden’ politics helps to explain the resilience of the consociational systems of Lebanon and Iraq in times of crises. Through the lens of ‘manifest’ politics, the Lebanese and Iraqi political systems are permanently on the brink of collapse. By contrast, through the lens of ‘hidden’ politics, the Lebanese and Iraqi political systems manifest their organised resilience. This comparative analysis of t…
A Twenty-Year Reflection of the Iraqi Invasion, Occupation and Resulting Interventions
2023 marks the twenty-year anniversary of the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq. This Special Issue collects contributions that reflect on the one hand, upon changing assumptions, worldviews, and the policy paradigms informing the international intervention in Iraq; and, on the other hand, on its direct and indirect effects on the political, economic, and social developments in the country. Focusing on different themes, actors, and geographica…
Conflict Mitigation versus Governance
Consociational power sharing has become one of the leading mechanisms of governance introduced in deeply divided post-conflict societies. When communal divisions seem intractable, it is seen as a way to use these very divisions to reach an agreement and form a post-conflict government. Using post-2003 Iraq as a case study, this article critically examines consociation in practice. It argues that consociational power sharing is extremely valuable …
UN mediators in Syria
Stabilizing Postwar Iraq
Over the last decade, stabilization has gained ground as a pragmatic, short‐term response to conflict and terrorism. While efforts to achieve a shared‐upon doctrinal understanding of this international practice proved inconclusive, stabilization work in Iraq since 2014 offers valuable insights to evaluate the relevance of the concept and the challenges it faces in its implemention. This article assesses the antinomies of stabilization in the cont…
The P5 and international intervention
This article examines the crisis of the liberal peace through the lens of ontological security. While existing scholarship has analysed the erosion of consensus around peacemaking from a geopolitical or a normative point of view, this study extends the debate by exploring how contestation of the liberal peace disrupts the identities of its promoters. Through qualitative discourse analysis of speeches delivered by the Permanent Five (P5) members o…
(Il)Liberal peace? P5 approaches to conflict management and resolution
The framework of liberal peace – once the hallmark of a Western-led international order – is now in deep crisis. Its decline coincides with the rise of non-Western actors proposing alternative models of conflict management and resolution. This article challenges the assumption that Western states always pursue conflict resolution objectives, while non-Western states focus on conflict management tasks through illiberal approaches. Drawing on role …
A Perception-Based Approach to Evaluating Legitimacy
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