Global South to the Rescue
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of an epochal shift in global order the fact that global-south countries have taken up leadership roles in peacekeeping missions, humanitarian interventions, and transnational military industries: Brazil has taken charge of the UN military mission in Haiti; Nigeria has deployed peacekeeping troops throughout West Africa; Indonesians have assumed crucial roles in UN Afghanistan operations; Fijians, South Africans, and Chileans have become essential actors in global mercenary firms; Venezuela and its Bolivarian allies have established a framework for revolutionary humanitarian interventions; and Turkey, India, Kenya, and Egypt are asserting themselves in bold new ways on the global stage.
In this context, this collection sheds critical light on intersections between imperialism and humanitarianism, between neoliberal globalization and rescue industry transnationalism, and between patterns of geopolitical hegemony and trajectories of peacekeeping internationalism. These case studies are grouped into three clusters (I) Globalizing Peacekeeper Identities, (II) Assertive Regional Internationalisms, and (III) Emergent Alternative Paradigms. Together, these articulate a new research agenda and offer significant contributions to fields of global studies, transnational gender and race studies, critical security studies and peace studies, comparative politics, police and military sociology, Third World diplomatic history, and international relations.
This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.
Paul Amar is an Associate Professor in the Global & International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Professor Amar is trained as a political scientist, political sociologist of globalization and urban ethnographer and specializes in international security politics, police and military institutions, humanitarian law and practice and authoritarian states. He researches the transnational and urban dynamics of police militarization as well as state violence against racial and sexual minorities in the cities of Latin America and the Middle East. Dr. Amar has worked at the United Nations, and on behalf of community struggles to fight police brutality and military atrocity, and to strengthen institutions of citizenship and cultures of legality.
Rethinking Globalizations
Edited by Barry K. Gills, University of Newcastle, UK
This series is designed to break new ground in the literature on globalization and its academic and popular understanding. Rather than perpetuating or simply reacting to the economic understanding of globalization, this series seeks to capture the term and broaden its meaning to encompass a wide range of issues and disciplines and convey a sense of alternative possibilities for the future.
1. Whither Globalization?
The vortex of knowledge and globalization
James H. Mittelman
Globalization and Global History
Edited by Barry K. Gills and William R. Thompson
3. Rethinking Civilization
Communication and terror in the global village
Majid Tehranian
4. Globalization and Contestation
The new great counter-movement
Ronaldo Munck
5. Global Activism
Ruth Reitan
6. Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia
Edited by Mike Douglass, K. C. Ho and Giok Ling Ooi
7. Challenging Euro-Americas Politics of Identity
The return of the native
Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes
8. The Global Politics of Globalization
Empire vs Cosmopolis
Edited by Barry K. Gills
9. The Globalization of Environmental Crisis
Edited by Jan Oosthoek and Barry K. Gills
10. Globalization as Evolutionary Process
Modeling global change
Edited by Geroge Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas and William R. Thompson
11. The Political Economy of Global Security
War, future crises and changes in global governance
Heikki Patomki
12. Cultures of Globalization
Coherence, hybridity, contestation
Edited by Kevin Archer, M. Martin Bosman, M. Mark Amen and Ella Schmidt
13. Globalization and the Global Politics of Justice
Edited by Barry K. Gills
14. Global Economy Contested
Power and conflict across the international division of labor
Edited by Marcus Taylor
15. Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence
Beyond savage globalization?
Edited by Damian Grenfell and Paul James
16. Recognition and Redistribution
Beyond international development
Edited by Heloise Weber and Mark T. Berger
17. The Social Economy
Working alternatives in a globalizing era
Edited by Hasmet M. Uluorta
18. The Global Governance of Food
Edited by Sara R. Curran, April Linton, Abigail Cooke and Andrew Schrank
19. Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights
The role of multilateral organizations
Desmond McNeill and Asuncin Lera St. Clair
20. Globalization and Popular Sovereignty
Democracys transnational dilemma Adam Lupel
21. Limits to Globalization
North-South divergence
William R. Thompson and Rafael Reuveny
22. Globalisation, Knowledge and Labour
Education for solidarity within spaces of resistance
Edited by Mario Novelli and Anibel Ferus-Comelo
23. Dying Empire
U.S. imperialism and global resistance
Francis Shor
24. Alternative Globalizations
An integrative approach to studying dissident knowledge in the global justice movement
S. A. Hamed Hosseini
25. Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity
Edited by Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg
26. Global South to the Rescue
Emerging humanitarian superpowers and globalizing rescue industries
Edited by Paul Amar
27. Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes
Edited by Manfred B. Steger and Anne McNevin
28. Power and Transnational Activism
Edited by Thomas Olesen
29. Globalization and Crisis
Edited by Barry K. Gills
30. Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development
Visions, remembrances and explorations
Edited by Patrick Manning and Barry K. Gills
31. Global Social Justice
Edited by Heather Widdows and Nicola J. Smith
32. Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance
A study of Filipino migrant domestic workers in global cities.
Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
33. Situating Global Resistance
Between Discipline and Dissent
Edited by Lara Montesinos Coleman and Karen Tucker
34. A History of World Order and Resistance
The Making and Unmaking of Global Subjects
Andr C. Drainville
35. Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New Global Order
Edited by Ronaldo Munck, Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Ral Delgado Wise
36. Edges of Global Justice
The World Social Forum and Its Others
Janet Conway
37. Land Grabbing and Global Governance
Edited by Matias E. Margulis, Nora McKeon and Saturnino Borras Jr.
38. Dialectics in World Politics
Edited by Shannon Brincat
39. Crisis, Movement, Management: Globalising Dynamics
Edited by James Goodman and Jonathan Paul Marshall
40. Chinas Development
Capitalism and Empire
Michel Aglietta and Guo Bai
41. Global Governance and NGO Participation
