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

该提案概述了对索马里冲突周围的跨国政治现实的研究，以便重新界定塑造政治可能性的行为者和进程的作用和意义。它认为，国际研究往往将这种动态简化为“西方干预”和“本土”行为者之间的互动。或者，它将重点放在对“地方”和“地区”参与者的政治行为进行理论化，以反对和支持“西方干预”。相反，这项研究将遵循文献中的一些重大举措，将“西方干预”转移到围绕冲突的跨国政治现实的研究中。为此，它将制定一种集合办法，对索马里冲突周围的跨国政治动态进行实证调查，而不是从“当地”、“区域”或“西方”等类别开始，也不侧重于“干预”进程。相反，它将对塑造冲突地区动态的行为者的多样性--他们的角色、网络和话语--以及他们如何行使和谈判权力以塑造政治可能性，形成一种全面和重新概念化的理解。它将通过一份全球政治民族志来做到这一点，这份报告将对这一群体在三个相互交叉的政策领域--选举、安全部门改革和收入分享--的运作进行详细描述。它将利用这一厚重的描述来重新评估和重新定义影响政治可能性的跨国行为者、话语和进程的概念，并在迄今为止被这种讨论边缘化的背景下，促进关于不断变化的全球政治和“国际秩序”的辩论。

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.