The demise of the intervention paradigm-resilience thinking in the Merida Initiative
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5681045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Finkenbusch (0000-0003-4448-6367, Institute for Development and Peace (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 313-332 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conflict Security and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1467-8802 • E-ISSN: 1478-1174 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14678802.2017.1337419 |
| OpenAlex | W2725578964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
Post-Cold War interventions have gone through a series of distinct paradigms—each allowing for its own oppositional discourse. This possibility seems to be diminishing with the rise of resilience thinking. In the early 1990s, liberal internationalist framings drove intervention by prioritising individual human rights over state rights to non-interference. Here, it was possible to oppose intervention as illegal boundary violation and unaccountable foreign rule. Neo-liberal approaches circumvented the legal problematic by conflating sovereignty with the capacity for good governance. However, they depended on a strong sociocultural dichotomy, giving rise to accusations of neo-colonialism. In contrast, the resilience discourse emphasises the positive, transformative aspects of local agency, rather than seeing it as deficient and needing paternal guidance. This paper argues that by claiming to merely plus up already existing social practices, international policy engagement in the Global South becomes difficult to conceive as boundary transgression or hierarchical imposition. These insights are drawn out with reference to the Merida Initiative, a US-Mexican security agreement signed in 2007
Corporate governance · Demise · Human rights · Late modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Transformative learning · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.6 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |