Figurations of Internationalized Rule in Africa

在战后形势下，非洲各国政府虽然有自己的政治议程，但需要适应相互矛盾的期望。国际捐助者敦促国家机构合理化，并坚持政治和经济自由化。国内权力集团试图“俘获”国家，以追求自己的利益或避免和规避国家政策。此外，政府代理人似乎追求一种经典的“国家形象”，在这种形象中，主权、领土和人口等观念是至高无上的。本项目从这种对矛盾期望的理解出发，以历史政治社会学为理论框架，旨在识别这些星座所产生的政治形象。假设关系的质量将在指导隐性和显性的行动模式中找到表达，我们的研究问题是：在国际化规则的形象中，指导非洲政府官员和捐助方工作人员的实际规范是什么？将根据半结构化、反复的比较逻辑对三个案例（乌干达、卢旺达、肯尼亚）进行调查。本研究将采用不同的研究方法：在文献分析和专家访谈之外，尝试使用多地点参与观察作为非洲国际化政治研究的一种创新。所设想的项目旨在帮助人们了解非洲政治，减少规范性期望（民主、发展、安全）的负担，并使学者和实践者都能更好地了解国际化规则的构成、关系网。

In post-war situations, African governments, while having their own political agenda, need to accommodate contradicting expectations. International donors press towards a rationalization of state agencies and insist on political and economic liberalization. Domestic power groups try to “capture” the state in pursuing their own interest or to avoid and circumvent state policies. Furthermore, government agents, seem to pursue a classical "image of the state" in which ideas like sovereignty, territory and population are supreme.Starting with this understanding of contradictory expectations and using historical political sociology as theoretical framework, this project aims at identifying the political figurations that result from these constellations. Assuming that the quality of relationships will find its expression in guiding implicit and explicit patterns of action, our research question is: What are the practical norms that guide African government officials’ and donor staff in figurations of internationalized rule?Three cases (Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya) will be investigated based on a semi-structured, reiterative logic of comparison. Different research methods will be used: Beyond document analysis and expert interviews, it attempts to use multi-sited participant observation as an innovation for the study of internationalized politics in Africa. The envisaged project aims at contributing to an understanding of African politics that is less burdened with normative expectations (democracy, development, security) and would allow both, scholars and practitioners, to better understand what the figuration, the web of relations, of internationalized rule consists of.