Practices of intervention: assembling security force assistance in Lebanon

Tholens, Simone ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6579-4118 2021. Practices of intervention: assembling security force assistance in Lebanon. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 15 (5) , pp. 647-664. 10.1080/17502977.2021.1987851

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Abstract

This article examines the material-discursive assemblages at work in Security Force Assistance (SFA) programs. Departing from the idea that SFA follows a patron-client type relationship, or that it is normatively bounded, it argues that SFA is emergent and negotiated via epistemic practices. It identifies three sets of practices at work – i) identifying the epistemic object; 2) establishing boundaries of action; and 3) rendering visible the material nexus. The article draws on the case of SFA to Lebanon since 2006 to demonstrate how heterogeneous material elements, global discourses, and actors' interests and agendas are translated and stabilised in SFA programs.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Subjects:	J Political Science > JZ International relations
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
ISSN:	1750-2977
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	15 November 2021
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2023 04:09
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/137746

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