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Securitization and Desecuritization in International Trusteeship Administrations (SFB/TRR 138)

The focus is on processes of securitisation and de-securitisation in two historical constellations of fiduciary transitional administrations: on the one hand in the context of the UN trusteeship system for decolonisation, and on the other in the context of UN-led administrations after the end of the East-West conflict. We understand securitisation and de-securitisation as strategic practices with which the actors involved in the state-building process attempt to make their political decisions, their opposition or their resistance plausible to an audience and thereby exert influence on statebuilding.

The project is part of the Collaborative Research Centre 138 “Dynamics of Security: Types of Securitisation in Historical Perspective”, a joint project of Marburg University, Justus Liebig University Giessen, the Herder Institute for Historical Research on Easterb Central Europe and the University of Bamberg.

Duration: 2014-2025
Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Teilprojekt SFB 138
Coordination: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bonacker
Team: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Bonacker, Dr. Aidan Gnoth, Dr. Philipp Lottholz, Dr. Werner Distler, Dr. Julius Heise, Dr. Maria Ketzmerick, Theresa Bachmann, Miriam Bach, Leonie Disselkamp, Laura Kotzur, Ronja Schicke, Lea Stromowksi, Luisa Siemens, Miriam Tekath. Emma Fahr, Karoline Möller

Publications

Bonacker, Thorsten & Denis Liebetanz (2017) How Dynamics of Security Contribute to Illiberal Statebuilding: the Case of Tajikistan. In: Thorsten Bonacker, Werner Distler & Maria Ketzmerick (eds.) Securitization in Statebuilding and Intervention. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 9-28. DOI: 10.5771/9783845285825

Bonacker, Thorsten & Maria Ketzmerick (2017). How Security Dynamics Shaped Trusteeship Statebuilding: The French Adminstration of Cameroon. In: Thorsten Bonacker, Werner Distler & Maria Ketzmerick (eds.) Securitization in Statebuilding and Intervention. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 155-182. DOI: 10.5771/9783845285825

Bonacker, Thorsten & Werner Distler (2021). Securitisation in World Politics: the Conflict on the Self-Determination of East Timor at the United Nations. International Quarterly for Asian Studies 52 (1-2), pp. 35-54. DOI: 10.11588/iqas.2021.1-2.14301

Bonacker, Thorsten (2016) Internationales Statebuilding und die liberale Politik des Schutzes. In: Gabriele Abels (ed.) Vorsicht Sicherheit! Legitimationsprobleme der Ordnung von Freiheit. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 177-198. DOI: 10.5771/9783845266039

Bonacker, Thorsten (2018) Security Practices and the Production of Center–Periphery Figurations in Statebuilding. Alternatives 43 (4), pp. 190-206. DOI: 10.1177/0304375418821479

Bonacker, Thorsten (2019) The Militarization of Security: a Systems Theory Perspective. Critical Military Studies 5 (2), pp. 276-294. DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2018.1505383

Bonacker, Thorsten (2021) Reporting Security: Postcolonial Governmentality in the United Nations’ Trusteeship System. International Political Sociology 16 (1), olab030. DOI: 10.1093/ips/olab030

Bonacker, Thorsten (2021). Situierte Sicherheit; Für einen methodologischen Situationismus in den Critical Security Studies. In: ZIB Zeitschrift für internationale Beziehungen 28 (1), pp. 5-34. DOI: 10.5771/0946-7165-2021-1-5

Bonacker, Thorsten and Werner Distler (2023) Das Militär im Statebuilding aus interventionssoziologischer Perspektive. In: Nina Leonhard and Ines-Jacqueline Werkner (eds.) Militärsoziologie – eine Einführung. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 241–262. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-531-93456-3_7

Bonacker, Thorsten, Werner Distler & Maria Ketzmerick (2018). Securitisation and Desecuritisation of Violence in Trusteeship Statebuilding. Civil Wars 20 (4), pp. 477-499. DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2018.1525675

Bonacker, Thorsten, Werner Distler & Maria Ketzmerick (eds.) (2017) Securitization in Statebuilding and Intervention. Baden-Baden: Nomos. DOI: 10.5771/9783845285825

Distler, Werner & Julius Heise (2021) Secessionist Conflicts: Unresolved Legacies of United Nations Trusteeship. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 16 (2), pp. 142-161. DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2021.1890935

Distler, Werner & Maria Ketzmerick (2017) The “Politics of Protection” and Elections in Trusteeship and International Administration: the Cases of Cameroun and Kosovo. In: Thorsten Bonacker, Werner Distler & Maria Ketzmerick (eds.) Securitization in Statebuilding and Intervention. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 127-154. DOI: 10.5771/9783845285825

Distler, Werner (2018) Gewaltakteure und Versicherheitlichung im internationalen Peacebuilding. In: Carola Westermeier & Horst Carl (eds.) Sicherheitsakteure: Epochenübergreifende Perspektiven zu Praxisformen und Versicherheitlichung. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 81-92. DOI: 10.5771/9783845286532

Distler, Werner (2019) Dangerised Youth: the Politics of Security and Development in Timor-Leste. Third World Quarterly 40 (4), pp. 727-742. DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1401924

Distler, Werner (2020) Political Crisis and the Corona: “State Of Emergency” in Kosovo. Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung 9 (2), pp. 375-384. DOI: 10.1007/s42597-020-00046-w

Distler, Werner (2022) Governing the Inner ‘Periphery’: Spatial Security Governance of the Highlands in Papua New Guinea since the Colonial Period. Political Geography 93, 102552. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102552

Heise, Julius (2021) United Nations Colonial Complicity in Decolonization Referenda: Un-supervision of the 1956 Referendum in Western Togoland.  Topos: Journal for Philosophy and Cultural Studies 1, 107-124. DOI: 10.24412/1815-0047-2021-1-107-124

Ketzmerick, Maria (2019) Securitized State Building? The Camerounian Decolonization in Conflict. In: Regina Kreide & Andreas Langenohl (eds.) Conceptualizing Power in Dynamics of Securitization: Beyond State and International System. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 291-324. DOI: 10.5771/9783845293547

Ketzmerick, Maria (2019). Staat, Sicherheit und Gewalt in Kamerun: Postkoloniale Perspektiven auf den Dekolonisierungsprozess unter französischer UN-Treuhandverwaltung. Bielefeld: transcript. DOI: 10.14361/9783839449042

Lottholz, Philipp & Polina Manolova (2023) No Escape from Coloniality? A Comparison of Political and Moral Orientations in the Former Soviet Periphery. In: Sonja Petkovska (ed.) Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries: Redefining Progressiveness, Coloniality and Transition Efforts. London: Routledge, pp. 257–276. DOI: 10.4324/9781003246848

Lottholz, Philipp & Thorsten Bonacker (2022) Understanding the Post-Imperial Politics of Security, Stability and Ordering in Central Asia: an Introduction. Europe-Asia Studies 74 (2), pp. 179-193. DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2021.2020492

Lottholz, Philipp (2023) Author Reply: Engaging with Non-Political Lifeworlds, Dialogical Research and Decolonial Horizons through Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia. Central Asian Survey 42 (4), pp. 736–739. DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2023.2271947

Lottholz, Philipp (2023) Illiberalism of Their Own Making? A Post-Liberal Critique of Illiberalism Research. In: Marlene Laruelle (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Illiberalism. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 155–174. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197639108.013.46

Lottholz, Philipp (2024) Commentary ‘Fostering new dialogues, debates and voices in Central Asia Studies: A Q&A with Philipp Lottholz’. Global Souths Hub.

Lottholz, Philipp and Karolina Kluczewska (2024) Still engaging, not avoiding, contradictions: Conceptualizing cooperative research in practical, structural and epistemic terms. International Political Sociology, 18(4). DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae033

Dwyer, Andrew C., Andreas Langenohl & Philipp Lottholz (2023) Special Issue Introduction: Thinking Security further through Topologies and Scenes. Critical Studies on Security 11 (1), pp. 1–13. DOI: 10.1080/21624887.2023.2208942

Dwyer, Andrew C., Andreas Langenohl & Philipp Lottholz (2023) Special Issue: Topologies of Security: Inquiring (In-)Security Across Postcolonial and Postsocialist Scenes. Critical Studies on Security 11 (1). DOI: 10.1080/21624887.2023.2208942