H\"older foliations, revisited

We investigate transverse H\"older regularity of some canonical leaf conjugacies in partially hyperbolic dynamical systems and transverse H\"older regularity of some invariant foliations. Our results validate claims made elsewhere in the literature.Comment: 52 pages, to appear in Journal of Modern Dynamic

From Mission Cringe to Mission Creep?: implications of new peace support operations doctrine

In 1996 UK Army doctrine writers revised the consept of wider peacekeeping and produced a draft of Army Field Manual, Peace Support Operations. The doctrinal revision, which has also been influential in NATO, attempts to deal with the inadequacies of peacekeeping in situations of volatile consent by establishing a military spectrum approach. the dangers of vertical mission creep, i.e., peacekeepers being drawn into an escalation and coercion in a planned and controlled way. This approach is a rational choice from a military perspective because it offers greater protection to military deployments. However, it represents move towards a combat-oriented concept that raises legal, political and cultural issues, and could result in insularity from civilian and conflict resolution approaches

Crime and Capitalism in Kosovo¿s Transformation.

yesIn the context of a fragile political and security situation, an ambiguous legal constitutional status and an imprecise and contested balance of power between international `protection¿ and local ownership, academic and practitioner strategies in Kosovo have emphasized human protection, military security and public law and order. However, Kosovo is also a site of contention between economic norms. On the one hand, the external agencies have attempted to impose a neoliberal economic model, rooted in the 1989 Washington consensus on developmentalism. On the other hand, Kosovars have clung to clientism, shadow economic activities and resistance to centrally-audited exchange

Liquid Transformation in the Political Economies of BiH and Kosovo.

yesThe transformation dynamics of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Kosovo rubs salt into the war wounds of economically vulnerable sectors of society in a context of fragile political and security situations, complex or ambiguous constitutional status and an imprecise and contested balance of power between international direction and local ownership. The protectors have been imposing a model of economic transformation, ultimately derived from the neoliberal economic ideology of aggressive capitalism and the 1989 Washington consensus on developmentalism. The inhabitants of war-torn societies have often clung to clientism, shadow economic activities and resistance to centrally-audited exchange. This paper contends that what is sometimes portrayed as a clash between neoliberal modernity and a pre-modern `Balkan way¿ is questionable in its dyadic assumptions and its underestimation of linkages between the spheres of neoliberalism and nationalist¿mafia¿clientism

A Political Economy Perspective of How Corruption Happens in Conflict and Peacebuilding.

yesThis commentary adopts a critical political economy perspective and therefore contests the liberal order that divorces the political from the economic. Orthodox `economy building¿ operations adopt unreflective assumptions about economic laws and treat economic reform as a technical, a-political, value-free issue. Nor does the critical perspective offered here endorse the liberal project¿s assumption that physical and structural violence can be artificially divorced. This piece contends that distributive injustice and structural violence continue when physical violence stops

The political economy of peacebuilding: a critical theory perspective.

yesThe ideology of the liberal peace has propelled the political economies of war-torn societies into a scheme of global convergence towards ¿market liberalisation¿. This orthodoxy was an uncontestable assumption underlying external economic assistance. However, the project faltered under its inherent contradictions and because it ignored the socio-economic problems confronting war-torn societies, even aggravating them by increasing the vulnerability of populations to poverty and shadow economic activity. Although revisionists have embarked on a mission to boost the UN¿s peacebuilding capacity and also rescue the Millennium Development Goals, the basic assumptions of the liberal peace are not challenged and potential alternatives are overlooked

Limited Sovereignty and Economic Security: Survival in Southeast Europe.

yesThis paper focuses on why shared sovereignty in general has been problematic and why the political economy of liberal peace has had limited impacts on poverty and the role of crime in Southeast Europe. The analysis begins with shared sovereignty and its relevance to economic development. The paper then outlines the discouraging economic situation evidenced by documentation and fieldwork. I then ask the question `how do people cope?¿, and try to answer this with reference to the labour market and the non-observable economy. The argument is that economy of survival has been both a negotiation with, and resistance to, economic policies introduced from outside. Finally, the paper contemplates political economy approaches that emphasise production and employment creation