Understanding transnational political realities around the Somali conflict: Emerging assemblages in global politics and the end of "western interventi

该提案概述了围绕索马里冲突的跨国政治现实的研究，以重新构想影响政治可能性的行为体和进程的作用和意义。它认为，国际研究往往将这种动态减少到“西方干预”和“当地”行为者之间的相互作用。或者，它专注于将“地方”和“区域”行为体的政治行为理论化，以反对并促进“西方干预”。相反，本研究将遵循文献中的一些重大举措，以在围绕冲突的跨国政治现实研究中去中心化“西方干预”。为此，它将制定一个综合办法，对围绕索马里冲突的跨国政治动态进行实证调查，而不是从“地方”、“区域”或“西方”等类别开始，也不是侧重于“干预”进程。相反，它将对影响冲突地区动态的行为体的多样性--他们的角色、网络和话语--以及他们如何行使和谈判权力来塑造政治可能性，形成一种全面的、重新概念化的理解。它将通过一个全球政治民族志来实现这一点，该民族志将对这一集会在三个交叉政策领域--选举、安全部门改革和收入分享--的运作进行详尽的描述。它将使用这种厚厚的描述重新评估和重新概念化的跨国行为者，话语和过程塑造政治的可能性，以及有助于对不断变化的全球政治和“国际秩序”的辩论，从迄今为止在这种讨论中被边缘化的背景。

This proposal outlines a study of transnational political realities around the Somali conflict in order to re-conceptualise the role and significance of the actors and processes shaping political possibilities. It argues that international studies has tended to reduce such dynamics to interactions between "western intervention" and "local" actors. Alternatively, it has focused on theorising the political behaviours of "local" and "regional" actors, in opposition to, and for the sake of, "western intervention." Instead, this study will follow a number of significant moves in the literature to de- centre "western intervention" in the study of transnational political realities around conflict. To do this it will develop an assemblage approach to frame an empirical investigation of the transnational political dynamics around the Somali conflict, that does not start with categories such as "local", "regional" or "western" or focus on processes of "intervention". Instead, it would develop a holistic and re-conceptualised understanding of the multiplicity of actors shaping dynamics in conflict zones - their role, networks, and discourses - and how they exercise and negotiate power to shape political possibilities. It will do this through a global political ethnography that will develop a thick description, of the workings of this assemblage across three intersecting policy areas - elections, security sector reform, and revenue-sharing. It will use this thick description to re-assess and reconceptualise the transnational actors, discourses and processes shaping political possibilities, as well as contribute to debates on the changing global politics and "international order", from a context hitherto marginalised in such discussions.