Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, Nationbuilding – Turtles All the Way Down?

Goetze, Catherine; Guzina, Dejan

doi:10.1080/13698240802354458

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“…In this section, I apply the MESMLM-AR(p) model to empirically test the "democratic advantage" hypothesis about sovereign default which has been often suggested in political economy of international finance (Archer, Biglaiser, and DeRouen 2007;Goetze and Guzina 2008;Vreeland 2008;Baliga, Lucca, and Sjo¨stro¨m 2009;Rost, Schneider, and Kleibl 2009;Beaulieu, Cox, and Saiegh 2012). More specifically, the hypothesis is that regime duration increases the risk of sovereign default in anocracies, but reduces the defaulting probability in full democracies and stark autocracies.…”

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Varying Responses to Common Shocks and Complex Cross-Sectional Dependence: Dynamic Multilevel Modeling with Multifactor Error Structures for Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data

Pang¹

2014

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Multifactor error structures utilize factor analysis to deal with complex cross-sectional dependence in Time-Series Cross-Sectional data caused by cross-level interactions. The multifactor error structure specification is a generalization of the fixed-effects model. This article extends the existing multifactor error models from panel econometrics to multilevel modeling, from linear setups to generalized linear models with the probit and logistic links, and from assuming serial independence to modeling the error dynamics with an autoregressive process. I develop Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms mixed with a rejection sampling scheme to estimate the multilevel multifactor error structure model with apth-order autoregressive process in linear, probit, and logistic specifications. I conduct several Monte Carlo studies to compare the performance of alternative specifications and approaches with varying degrees of data complication and different sample sizes. The Monte Carlo studies provide guidance on when and how to apply the proposed model. An empirical application sovereign default demonstrates how the proposed approach can accommodate a complex pattern of cross-sectional dependence and helps answer research questions related to units' sensitivity or vulnerability to systemic shocks.

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Varying Responses to Common Shocks and Complex Cross-Sectional Dependence: Dynamic Multilevel Modeling with Multifactor Error Structures for Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data

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2014

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“…Unlike the former, which is "mainly concerned with the effects of civil wars and weak states on the national security of western/northern industrial states," the human security approach takes a moral stand on peacebuilding and conceives of peace intervention as an ethical response to suffering. 73 The distinction suggests that in criticizing the liberal peace approach, we need to be clear about the nature of critique-namely, which aspect of liberal peace we problematize and to what extent.…”

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Building Communities of Peace: Arendtian Realism and Peacebuilding

Lee

2021

Polity

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Recent studies of peacebuilding highlight the importance of attending to people's local experiences of conflict and cooperation. This trend, however, raises the fundamental questions of how the local is and should be constituted and what the relationship is between institutions and individual actors of peace at the local level of politics. I turn to Hannah Arendt's thoughts to address these issues. Arendt's thinking provides a distinctive form of realism that calls for stable institutions but never depletes the spirit of resistance. Peacebuilding guided by this insight seeks to enable parties in conflict to voice their competing opinions by acting agonistically in public and to help them align their disruptive yet creative voices with a desire to establish and sustain common institutions. Thus, Arendt's thinking not only offers a way to increase sensitivity to local differences but also to provide direction to the politics of resistance. In the end, it offers a balanced insight into peacebuilding and local agency beyond the contemporary liberal and critical approaches to peace.

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“…If a negotiated settlement that ends the hostilities can be achieved, then the challenge is to insure that the settlement endures. This may be accomplished through reconciliation and justice commissions and in the development of new societal institutions, i.e., peacebuilding (Goetze and Guzina 2008). Many of the foregoing conflict resolution techniques have shown promise (Kaye 2001;Fisher 2007;Wanis-St. John and Kew 2008); however, as the authors point out, these techniques also raise a host of practical and ethical questions, and our conceptual understanding of the effectiveness of these newer techniques is still in its infancy.…”

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