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Emerging Powers And Conflict-Affected States
10:00am to 12:30pm,
Tuesday 15 March, 2016
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
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In recent years emerging powers such as China, India, Brazil, Turkey and South Africa have played much more prominent roles in international peacekeeping and in providing development and humanitarian assistance to countries in the Global South. One of the least understood dimensions of their growing engagement relates to the assistance they provide to countries affected by conflict and embarking on reconstruction following civil wars.
The two-year Emerging Powers in Post-Conflict and Transitional Settings: the New Politics of Reconstruction project, supported by United States Institute of Peace and directed by Agnieszka Paczynska (School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University) brought together a group of international scholars to examine how emerging powers understand and conceptualize the relationship between development and security and how the policies they are pursuing differ from those of traditional donors.
At this event, the group of scholars will present their findings.
China
Chris Alden, Professor of International Relations and Yixiao Zheng, London School of Economics
Arab Gulf States
Sultan Barakat, Director of Research Brookings Institution Doha Center, Senior Fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy
Brazil
Paulo Esteves, Director, Instituto de Relações Internacionais Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Supervisor BRICS Policy Center
South Africa
Gilbert Khadiagala, Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations, Head of International Relations Department, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
India
Rani Mullen, Associate Professor of Government, College of William and Mary
Turkey
Pinar Tank, Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute Oslo
Russia
Christoph Zürcher, Professor Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Ottawa