Managing donor perceptions
Contextualizing Uganda's 2007 intervention in Somalia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6026650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Fisher (0000-0002-0830-5189, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 444 |
| Pages | 404-423 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9909 • E-ISSN: 1468-2621 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/afraf/ads023 |
| OpenAlex | W2115289700 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
This article explores Uganda's decision to send peacekeeping troops to Somalia in 2007 as part of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and argues that the intervention has as much to do with Uganda's relationship with its donors as it has with maintaining regional stability – the official justification for intervention. Museveni's decision to intervene in Somalia is the most recent example of his regime's multi-pronged 'image management' strategy in which the President has involved Uganda in numerous foreign and domestic activities to ensure that donors perceive his government in a particular way vis-à-vis their interests: as an economic success story, a guarantor of regional stability, or, in relation to Somalia, an ally in the global war on terror. In so doing Museveni's strategy, conceptualized here within a constructivist framework, has been able largely to avoid censure in areas of traditional donor concern such as governance, thereby achieving a considerable degree of agency in a seemingly asymmetric relationship.
Agency (philosophy) · Corporate governance · Development economics · Economics · Foreign policy · Good governance · Government (linguistics) · Intervention (counseling) · Management · Peacekeeping · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Public Administration
Security sector reform in Uganda
Peace and Compromise, Idealism and Constraint
The Politics of Portrayal in Violent Conflict
Democratic Backsliding in Africa?
From “Peacekept” to Peacekeeper
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali
Defending Civic Space
The EU and peacekeeping in Africa
Transnational counterterrorism assemblages
Introduction
Reproducing remoteness? States, internationals and the co-constitution of aid ‘bunkerization’ in the East African periphery
Shrinking democratic space? Crisis of consensus and contentious politics in Uganda
Beyond Robert Jackson
An assemblage approach to liquid warfare
Niger – Europe’s border guard? Limits to the externalization of the European Union’s migration policy
Does it Work?’ – Work for Whom? Britain and Political Conditionality since the Cold War
Beyond the Short versus Long Accountability Route Dichotomy
Insurgency and international extraversion in Somalia
Museveni and the 2026 election
The October 2011 Kenyan invasion of Somalia
Buying Allies
Diplomats in uniform – the evolution of Rwanda’s foreign policy and how it became indispensable within a decade
Who depends on whom? Uganda’s refugee ‘success story’, corruption and the international community
When it pays to be a ‘fragile state’
When ‘’'limited statehood' becomes an asset. Fighting terrorism, migration and the consequences of 'Western' economic and military support to the Sahel
Sending peacekeepers abroad, sharing power at home
Retrieving how diplomacy writes subjects, space and time
African agency in a changing security environment
Exercising African agency in Burundi via multilateral channels
Structure, agency and Africa in the international system
Some more reliable than others
Buying blue helmets
Rebranding the State
Understanding African Agency in Peace and Security
Shelter from the storm
Joining Amisom
The master of institutional multiplicity? The shifting politics of regime survival, state-building and democratisation in Museveni's Uganda
Dire consequences or empty threats? Western pressure for peace, justice and democracy in Kenya
The limits - and limiters - of external influence
Transnational Strategies of Legitimation in the 1990s
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3.08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |