Roberto Belloni
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 641678 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Roberto Belloni |
| PRENOMES | Roberto |
| SOBRENOME | Belloni |
| ASSINATURA | BELLONI R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9384-9182 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 237 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
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…
Marching Backward? Conservative Civil Society, Freedom of Religion, and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
This paper examines the role of the Orange Order, a prominent Protestant civil society organization, throughout the period following the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. By linking the defense of civil and religious liberties to the preservation of the Union with the United Kingdom, the Orange Order plays both an important religious and political role which has embroiled it in a number of disputes. This paper discuss…
Andrew Gilbert
Article Andrew Gilbert: International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy: Encounters in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina was published on September 1, 2022 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 70, issue 3)
The Rise and Fall of Peacebuilding in the Balkans
Stabilization As the New Normal in International Interventions
Elite and Everyday Social Contracts in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Dayton Peace Agreement ended the violence in Bosnia–Herzegovina, however, it also solidified antagonistic political identities leading to the creation of two social contracts: an ‘elite social contract’ involving primarily political elites of the main ethnic groups and an ‘everyday social contract’ involving ordinary citizens trying to manage a complex social and economic environment. The first social contract is hegemonic, however, alternati…
Stability and Stability Operations
The notion of ‘stability’ and the practice of ‘stability operations’ experienced a revival in the last decade. The paper shows how different actors (UN, NATO, US and European countries) have been using the concept ‘stability’ in their recent doctrines. It then shows how as a multi-faceted notion stability can benefit from methodological pluralism, how actors adopt different and even conflicting meanings across a range of different cases and stabi…
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…
Assessing the rise of macro-regionalism in Europe
The European Union Blowback? Euroscepticism and its Consequences in the Western Balkans
While there exists a large body of literature investigating the European Union’s intervention in the western Balkans, and in particular the influence of so-called ‘enlargement fatigue’, rarely is the western Balkans’ own fatigue towards the EU given serious consideration. This paper examines domestic views about Europe, arguing that aspiring new EU member states have been experiencing various forms of Euroscepticism due to a number of socio-econo…
Bosnia
Civil Society and the Responsibility to Protect
While a vast and growing literature on various aspects of responsibility to protect (R2P) exists, little attention has yet been given to the role played by civil society in the development and implementation of this doctrine. This paper aims to fill this gap. After providing a typology of civil society organisations—categorising this amorphous sphere into advocacy, operational and indigenous groups—this paper examines the contribution of civil so…
Corruption in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo
Since the late 1990s international state builders have paid increasing attention to fighting corruption in both Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. On the surface this effort has brought significant results, since both countries have adopted legal frameworks modelled on the best practices of Western democracies. In practice, however, corruption remains rampant. This disappointing outcome has several explanations: in reviewing the empirical evidence we…
Building civil society in Lao PDR
Since 2006, international organisations in Lao PDR have worked closely with local actors in order to foster the creation of an enabling environment for civil society. By conceiving of civil society development as a system involving a number of closely-connected actors and levels, international actors have been able to contribute to both the adoption of a Decree on Associations, which for the first time in Lao history regulates the civil society s…
Western intervention in the Balkans
Roger D. Petersen, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, 350 pp., £60.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780521281263, /£21.99 (US$32.99) (pbk) Petersen's well-researched, ambitious book aims at explaining two
The IMF and civil society
Harris Mylonas, The Politics of Nation-Building
Article Harris Mylonas, The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities was published on April 1, 2013 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 61, issue 4)
Introducing Hybrid Peace Governance
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, among other cases, the international efforts to promote peace and democratic institutions frequently clash with different understandings of
Hybrid Peace Governance
In hybrid peace governance, liberal and illiberal norms, institutions, and \nactors exist alongside each other, interact, and even clash. Such a political, \neconomic, and social order is a far cry from the liberal idea of peace based \non legitimate and accountable democratic institutions, the rule of law, \nhuman rights, free media, market economy, and an open civil society. This \narticle accounts for the emergence of hybrid peace governance a…
The Birth of South Sudan and the Challenges of Statebuilding
This paper examines some key statebuilding challenges confronting South Sudan in the aftermath of the January 2011 referendum that separated this region from the Republic of Sudan. Following the referendum, the two states—the Republic of Sudan and South Sudan—face the immediate challenge of negotiating the terms of their relationship over a number of critical issues, including: the future of the contested border town of Abyei, the problem of how …
Civil Society and Peacebuilding
Responding to the burgeoning interest in the role of civil society in peace processes, this groundbreaking collaborative effort identifies the constructive functions of civil society in support of peacebuilding both during and in the aftermath of armed conflict. The authors also highlight the factors that support those functions and the obstacles to their fulfillment. A comprehensive analytical framework is applied to 11 country cases, not only a…
European integration and the Western Balkans
European integration is almost universally recognized as the key strategy for achieving the twin goals of peace and prosperity in the Western Balkans.1 European policy-makers trust that greater European involvement in the Western Balkans can have positive and long-lasting effects on the management of ethno- political conflict. The European Commission identified the prospect of EU membership as ‘the ultimate conflict prevention strategy’ and commi…
Meditration’ and ‘Arbidiation’ in Intractable Conflicts
Ker-Lindsay demonstrates convincingly that mediation – arbitration, or ‘meditration’, is not a particularly successful conflict management system. The mediation process in both Kosovo and Cyprus did not lead to a settlement acceptable to all main parties. After mediation failed, international interveners turned into arbitrators, and advanced their own settlement plans. By so doing, mediation evolved into a form of intervention more akin to arbitr…
Bosnia
The process of implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement in Bosnia has come to a halt. Particularly since 2006, nationalist rhetoric has increased, political, economic and social reforms have stalled, and some analysts warn that the country might be sliding towards collapse. This article traces the roots of the current crisis in the 2006 failed constitutional reform attempt, which has highlighted the precarious state of the Bosnian political s…
Local legitimacy and international peacebuilding
"Local legitimacy and international peacebuilding." Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 21(2), pp. 333–334
Civil Society and Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The concept of civil society has acquired an unprecedented worldwide popularity, especially in development programs. This article investigates the international effort to build civil society in Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to foster peace and democratization, this in response to disappointment with traditional economic, military, and political strategies. The results of this major investment of resources, however, have been unsatisfactory. The…
At War's End
Peacebuilding and consociational electoral engineering in bosnia and herzegovina
What role do elections play in societies emerging from communal war and what type of institutions can serve as catalysts in deepening peace and compromise? While some analysts argue that ethnicity should be recognized through 'consociational' institutions, others maintain that 'integrative' devices - in particular, carefully crafted electoral rules - can limit or even break down the salience of ethnicity and increase the possibility for inter-eth…
Hybrid Peace Governance
In hybrid peace governance, liberal and illiberal norms, institutions, and \nactors exist alongside each other, interact, and even clash. Such a political, \neconomic, and social order is a far cry from the liberal idea of peace based \non legitimate and accountable democratic institutions, the rule of law, \nhuman rights, free media, market economy, and an open civil society. This \narticle accounts for the emergence of hybrid peace governance a…
Bosnia
The process of implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement in Bosnia has come to a halt. Particularly since 2006, nationalist rhetoric has increased, political, economic and social reforms have stalled, and some analysts warn that the country might be sliding towards collapse. This article traces the roots of the current crisis in the 2006 failed constitutional reform attempt, which has highlighted the precarious state of the Bosnian political s…
The trouble with humanitarianism
Humanitarianism – that is, the political, economic and military interference in the domestic affairs of a state justified by a nascent transnational morality – is one of the defining and most controversial features of the post-Cold War period. This article advances nine theses, arguing that humanitarianism has a simplistic worldview, that coercive humanitarian actions trigger negative consequences, that humanitarianism is quite effective in shelt…
Introducing Hybrid Peace Governance
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, among other cases, the international efforts to promote peace and democratic institutions frequently clash with different understandings of
Role-Playing International Intervention in Conflict Areas
Role-playing is a useful exercise in overcoming some of the limits of tra- ditional lecture-based teaching. While lectures presuppose the existence of a knowledgeable professor transmitting information to overall passive students, role-playing requires both the redefinition of the profes- sor⁄student relationship and the active and purposeful involvement of students. This paper is an initial attempt to assess a role-play designed to achieve three…
Stability and Stability Operations
The notion of ‘stability’ and the practice of ‘stability operations’ experienced a revival in the last decade. The paper shows how different actors (UN, NATO, US and European countries) have been using the concept ‘stability’ in their recent doctrines. It then shows how as a multi-faceted notion stability can benefit from methodological pluralism, how actors adopt different and even conflicting meanings across a range of different cases and stabi…
Corruption in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo
Since the late 1990s international state builders have paid increasing attention to fighting corruption in both Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. On the surface this effort has brought significant results, since both countries have adopted legal frameworks modelled on the best practices of Western democracies. In practice, however, corruption remains rampant. This disappointing outcome has several explanations: in reviewing the empirical evidence we…
The Tragedy of Darfur and the Limits of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’
The view that states which claim sovereign status must comply with the responsibility to protect their own citizens is gaining ground in international politics. When a state is unable or unwilling to meet this responsibility, the international community is justified in intervening militarily to end widespread human rights violations. This article argues that a diffuse responsibility to protect, as currently conceived, may have important negative …
Peacebuilding at the local level
During the 1992–95 war, Prijedor was synonymous with mass killing, ethnic cleansing and detention camps. A decade after the end of the war, international agencies consider this town to be an example of successful foreign intervention. Thousands of Muslim displaced persons (DPs) returned to their pre-war homes, mosques have been rebuilt, and hard-line Serb nationalists have lost much influence. How could Prijedor turn from a hopeless case of ethni…
From Belfast to Bosnia
Implementing power-sharing arrangements can be cumbersome. This article examines the institutional processes and changing nature of power-sharing mechanisms instituted in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It scrutinises the problems of legitimacy and elite predominance, endorsing power-sharing arrangements and their institutional processes. The institutional capacity of consociational arrangements and the strengths and weaknesses of consoc…
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…
The European Union Blowback? Euroscepticism and its Consequences in the Western Balkans
While there exists a large body of literature investigating the European Union’s intervention in the western Balkans, and in particular the influence of so-called ‘enlargement fatigue’, rarely is the western Balkans’ own fatigue towards the EU given serious consideration. This paper examines domestic views about Europe, arguing that aspiring new EU member states have been experiencing various forms of Euroscepticism due to a number of socio-econo…
Elite and Everyday Social Contracts in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Dayton Peace Agreement ended the violence in Bosnia–Herzegovina, however, it also solidified antagonistic political identities leading to the creation of two social contracts: an ‘elite social contract’ involving primarily political elites of the main ethnic groups and an ‘everyday social contract’ involving ordinary citizens trying to manage a complex social and economic environment. The first social contract is hegemonic, however, alternati…
Civil Society and the Responsibility to Protect
While a vast and growing literature on various aspects of responsibility to protect (R2P) exists, little attention has yet been given to the role played by civil society in the development and implementation of this doctrine. This paper aims to fill this gap. After providing a typology of civil society organisations—categorising this amorphous sphere into advocacy, operational and indigenous groups—this paper examines the contribution of civil so…
Building civil society in Lao PDR
Since 2006, international organisations in Lao PDR have worked closely with local actors in order to foster the creation of an enabling environment for civil society. By conceiving of civil society development as a system involving a number of closely-connected actors and levels, international actors have been able to contribute to both the adoption of a Decree on Associations, which for the first time in Lao history regulates the civil society s…
The Birth of South Sudan and the Challenges of Statebuilding
This paper examines some key statebuilding challenges confronting South Sudan in the aftermath of the January 2011 referendum that separated this region from the Republic of Sudan. Following the referendum, the two states—the Republic of Sudan and South Sudan—face the immediate challenge of negotiating the terms of their relationship over a number of critical issues, including: the future of the contested border town of Abyei, the problem of how …
The IMF and civil society
Civil Society and Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The concept of civil society has acquired an unprecedented worldwide popularity, especially in development programs. This article investigates the international effort to build civil society in Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to foster peace and democratization, this in response to disappointment with traditional economic, military, and political strategies. The results of this major investment of resources, however, have been unsatisfactory. The…
Peacebuilding and consociational electoral engineering in bosnia and herzegovina
What role do elections play in societies emerging from communal war and what type of institutions can serve as catalysts in deepening peace and compromise? While some analysts argue that ethnicity should be recognized through 'consociational' institutions, others maintain that 'integrative' devices - in particular, carefully crafted electoral rules - can limit or even break down the salience of ethnicity and increase the possibility for inter-eth…
Peacebuilding at the local level
During the 1992–95 war, Prijedor was synonymous with mass killing, ethnic cleansing and detention camps. A decade after the end of the war, international agencies consider this town to be an example of successful foreign intervention. Thousands of Muslim displaced persons (DPs) returned to their pre-war homes, mosques have been rebuilt, and hard-line Serb nationalists have lost much influence. How could Prijedor turn from a hopeless case of ethni…
At War's End
From Belfast to Bosnia
Implementing power-sharing arrangements can be cumbersome. This article examines the institutional processes and changing nature of power-sharing mechanisms instituted in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It scrutinises the problems of legitimacy and elite predominance, endorsing power-sharing arrangements and their institutional processes. The institutional capacity of consociational arrangements and the strengths and weaknesses of consoc…
The Tragedy of Darfur and the Limits of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’
The view that states which claim sovereign status must comply with the responsibility to protect their own citizens is gaining ground in international politics. When a state is unable or unwilling to meet this responsibility, the international community is justified in intervening militarily to end widespread human rights violations. This article argues that a diffuse responsibility to protect, as currently conceived, may have important negative …
The trouble with humanitarianism
Humanitarianism – that is, the political, economic and military interference in the domestic affairs of a state justified by a nascent transnational morality – is one of the defining and most controversial features of the post-Cold War period. This article advances nine theses, arguing that humanitarianism has a simplistic worldview, that coercive humanitarian actions trigger negative consequences, that humanitarianism is quite effective in shelt…
Italy and the Balkans
Since the early 1990s Italy has been engaged in promoting peace and stability in the Balkans with a growing amount of political, economic and military resources. At the beginning of the process of Yugoslav dissolution, the Italian polity was torn apart by a set of political and financial scandals that prevented the development of an assertive foreign policy. Over time, however, Italy was able to play a more relevant and constructive role. This ar…
Role-Playing International Intervention in Conflict Areas
Role-playing is a useful exercise in overcoming some of the limits of tra- ditional lecture-based teaching. While lectures presuppose the existence of a knowledgeable professor transmitting information to overall passive students, role-playing requires both the redefinition of the profes- sor⁄student relationship and the active and purposeful involvement of students. This paper is an initial attempt to assess a role-play designed to achieve three…
European integration and the Western Balkans
European integration is almost universally recognized as the key strategy for achieving the twin goals of peace and prosperity in the Western Balkans.1 European policy-makers trust that greater European involvement in the Western Balkans can have positive and long-lasting effects on the management of ethno- political conflict. The European Commission identified the prospect of EU membership as ‘the ultimate conflict prevention strategy’ and commi…
Meditration’ and ‘Arbidiation’ in Intractable Conflicts
Ker-Lindsay demonstrates convincingly that mediation – arbitration, or ‘meditration’, is not a particularly successful conflict management system. The mediation process in both Kosovo and Cyprus did not lead to a settlement acceptable to all main parties. After mediation failed, international interveners turned into arbitrators, and advanced their own settlement plans. By so doing, mediation evolved into a form of intervention more akin to arbitr…
Bosnia
The process of implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement in Bosnia has come to a halt. Particularly since 2006, nationalist rhetoric has increased, political, economic and social reforms have stalled, and some analysts warn that the country might be sliding towards collapse. This article traces the roots of the current crisis in the 2006 failed constitutional reform attempt, which has highlighted the precarious state of the Bosnian political s…
Civil Society and Peacebuilding
Responding to the burgeoning interest in the role of civil society in peace processes, this groundbreaking collaborative effort identifies the constructive functions of civil society in support of peacebuilding both during and in the aftermath of armed conflict. The authors also highlight the factors that support those functions and the obstacles to their fulfillment. A comprehensive analytical framework is applied to 11 country cases, not only a…
The Birth of South Sudan and the Challenges of Statebuilding
This paper examines some key statebuilding challenges confronting South Sudan in the aftermath of the January 2011 referendum that separated this region from the Republic of Sudan. Following the referendum, the two states—the Republic of Sudan and South Sudan—face the immediate challenge of negotiating the terms of their relationship over a number of critical issues, including: the future of the contested border town of Abyei, the problem of how …
Introducing Hybrid Peace Governance
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, among other cases, the international efforts to promote peace and democratic institutions frequently clash with different understandings of
Hybrid Peace Governance
In hybrid peace governance, liberal and illiberal norms, institutions, and \nactors exist alongside each other, interact, and even clash. Such a political, \neconomic, and social order is a far cry from the liberal idea of peace based \non legitimate and accountable democratic institutions, the rule of law, \nhuman rights, free media, market economy, and an open civil society. This \narticle accounts for the emergence of hybrid peace governance a…
Western intervention in the Balkans
Roger D. Petersen, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, 350 pp., £60.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780521281263, /£21.99 (US$32.99) (pbk) Petersen's well-researched, ambitious book aims at explaining two
The IMF and civil society
Harris Mylonas, The Politics of Nation-Building
Article Harris Mylonas, The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities was published on April 1, 2013 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 61, issue 4)
Civil Society and the Responsibility to Protect
While a vast and growing literature on various aspects of responsibility to protect (R2P) exists, little attention has yet been given to the role played by civil society in the development and implementation of this doctrine. This paper aims to fill this gap. After providing a typology of civil society organisations—categorising this amorphous sphere into advocacy, operational and indigenous groups—this paper examines the contribution of civil so…
Corruption in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo
Since the late 1990s international state builders have paid increasing attention to fighting corruption in both Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. On the surface this effort has brought significant results, since both countries have adopted legal frameworks modelled on the best practices of Western democracies. In practice, however, corruption remains rampant. This disappointing outcome has several explanations: in reviewing the empirical evidence we…
Building civil society in Lao PDR
Since 2006, international organisations in Lao PDR have worked closely with local actors in order to foster the creation of an enabling environment for civil society. By conceiving of civil society development as a system involving a number of closely-connected actors and levels, international actors have been able to contribute to both the adoption of a Decree on Associations, which for the first time in Lao history regulates the civil society s…
Bosnia
The European Union Blowback? Euroscepticism and its Consequences in the Western Balkans
While there exists a large body of literature investigating the European Union’s intervention in the western Balkans, and in particular the influence of so-called ‘enlargement fatigue’, rarely is the western Balkans’ own fatigue towards the EU given serious consideration. This paper examines domestic views about Europe, arguing that aspiring new EU member states have been experiencing various forms of Euroscepticism due to a number of socio-econo…
Elite and Everyday Social Contracts in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Dayton Peace Agreement ended the violence in Bosnia–Herzegovina, however, it also solidified antagonistic political identities leading to the creation of two social contracts: an ‘elite social contract’ involving primarily political elites of the main ethnic groups and an ‘everyday social contract’ involving ordinary citizens trying to manage a complex social and economic environment. The first social contract is hegemonic, however, alternati…
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