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Book SynopsisThis 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 became 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
Table of Contents
Foreword 1. Introduction: Global South to the Rescue Section One: Globalizing Peacekeeper Identities 2. Peacexploitation? Interrogating Labor Hierarchies and Global Sisterhood Amongst Indian and Uruguayan Female Peacekeepers 3. Martial Races and Enforcement Masculinities of the Global South: Weaponising Fijian, Chilean, and Salvadoran Postcoloniality in the Mercenary Sector 4. The Pacification of Soldiering, and the Militarization of Development: Contradictions Inherent in Provincial Reconstruction in Afghanistan Section Two: Assertive "Regional Internationalisms" 5. Turkey: An Emerging Hub of Globalization and Internationalist Humanitarian Actor? 6. Globalising Security Culture and Knowledge in Practice: Nigeria’s Hybrid Model 7. Indonesia and the Liberal Peace: Recovering Southern Agency in Global Governance 8. Kenya and International Security: Enabling Globalization, Stabilising ‘Stateness,’ and Deploying ‘Humanitarian Counterterrorism’ Section Three: Emergent Alternative Paradigms 9. Bolivarian Globalization?: The New Left’s Struggle in Latin America and the Caribbean to Negotiate a Revolutionary Approach to Humanitarian Militarism and International Intervention 10. Brazil’s Grand Design for Combining Global South Solidarity and National Interests: A Discussion of Peacekeeping Operations in Haiti and Timor 11. Egypt as a Globalist Power: Mapping Military Participation in Decolonizing Internationalism, Repressive Entrepreneurialism, and Humanitarian Globalization between the Revolutions of 1952 and 2011
