Un programme de recherche vaste et passionnant! Questions à l'études par le corps professoral de l'école:
Le développement dans d’autres contextes de fragilité, de violence et de conflit (FCV) : A titre de coordinateur du Réseau de recherche sur les États fragiles du Centre d’études en politiques internationales, le professeur Baranyi a organisé en 2020-21 un panel sur la mise en œuvre de l’objectif de développement durable 16 (sur la paix, la justice et les institutions) dans divers contextes de FCV, ainsi qu’un panel sur les défis de la paix et de la justice en Colombie. .
The World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and International Order. This collaborative SSHRC project investigates the far Right's international agenda and global networks, and the extent to which these represent a challenge to the international liberal order.
The Return of the Generals? This project focuses on the relationship between security, security assistance and militarism in African countries. It includes a focus on democracy and on changing military relations.
Effectiveness of International Intervention in Afghanistan. Lessons Learned and Way Ahead for Afghanistan’s stabilization and development. Policy implications for Canada.
L'engagement canadien dans les États/sociétés fragiles: Partant des travaux passés y compris des livres édités par Tiessen & Baranyi (2017) et Brown et al. (2016), nous menons des recherches, avec plusieurs étudiant.es, sur la coopération canadienne en matière de justice et de sécurité en Colombie, en Haïti et en Jamaïque, particulièrement sur son évolution depuis l’adoption de la Politique d’assistance internationale féministe.
La sécurité et la réforme de la justice en Haïti +: Inspiré par notre recherche sur l'engagement international dans les États/sociétés fragiles (Desrosiers & Baranyi 2012, Baranyi 2019), nous collaborons avec des étudiant.es pour approfondir la recherche sur l’évolution des institutions de justice et de sécurité, notamment leur dimension genrée, en Haïti et dans d’autres États/sociétés fragiles.
Revisiting Rwanda’s First and Second Republics. The project looks at political and administrative structures in Rwanda from 1960 to 1990. It aims to understand power structures at different levels, as well as popular engagement with power.
Rwanda’s bilateral aid since the genocide. The project studies policies and practices adopted by six bilateral donors since 1994: Belgium, Canada, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. It seeks to nuance notions of ‘exceptionalism’ with regards to Rwanda’s foreign aid.
Gender, Development and Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy. This project examines the nature of gender equality programming and gender mainstreaming strategies in Canada’s foreign policy and international assistance programs. Particular attention is given to policy and practice related to gender and security and the ‘Women, Peace and Security’ initiative.
Local Knowledge and Peacebuilding: Despite a growing scholarly evidence base and practitioners’ own acknowledgement of the importance of using local knowledge and collaborating with national and local partners, most international interventions fail to integrate local knowledge in a meaningful or sustained way. The main research question of this project is, why and by what mechanisms international interventions gather (or fail to gather) local knowledge about their host states. This includes a dual analytical interest in individual behavior as well as organizational-level incentives and disincentives of local knowledge use. The project seeks a) to develop a conceptual understanding of local knowledge and its mechanisms, b) to study empirically the mechanisms of local knowledge use or non-use at the individual and organizational level of analysis.
Governing Transnational Risks and Resilience in Fragile States: a comparative assessment: This project fills a known gap in the literature by examining how fragile communities across four continents in Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and North America develop resilience strategies to overcome risks.
Covid and developing countries: This project tries to better understand how the COVID-19 virus has (and continues) to affect developing countries. While the global COVID-19 pandemic is still unfolding in the so-called Western countries (e.g. Canada, USA, Italy, Spain etc.), several virologists and development scholars have already warned about the devastating consequences for the healthcare system in most developing states (e.g. in Africa, Middle East, South America) since the virus has arrived there over the summer. In short, we aim to better understand the particular challenges that developing states face in light of the COVID-19 pandemic both from a conceptual but also practical level.
Studying Development Practices: The goal of this course is to better understand the ‘practices’ of international development institutions. In recent years a number of scholars have turned to studying practices in international politics, often drawing from the works of Pierre Bourdieu (1977), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958), and Charles Taylor (1985) that contend “that practices can at once underlie subjects and objects, highlight non-propositional knowledge, and illuminate the conditions of intelligibility” (Schatzki, 2001: 10). (s.f. Gadinger; Poulliot; Reckwitz etc.).
Burden sharing (BS) in international institutions: The BS literature clearly lacks a post-positivist perspective (which is able to produce much richer and deeper causal explanations and understandings of state motivations for (or against) sharing burdens than simply treating burden sharing as an outcome. The literature on burden sharing clearly lacks is a bottom-up (inductive) approach that offers much richer and deeper causal explanations and understandings of state motivations for (or against) sharing burdens. The aim of this project is to fill this lacuna—that is develop such an inductive program based on a post- positivist (or non- materialistic/social) ontology. This allows us to understand the intersubjective social structures of agents and their value rational motivations for sharing institutional burdens, because it is not merely cost-benefit analyses that determine states’ motivations but also societal norms, values, as well as belief and power structures.
