https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/INTR5437?type=COREThe course surveys scholarly, policy, and public debates on contemporary international intervention and statebuilding. It is organised along two dimensions. First, it examines the concept and practices of intervention and statebuilding from liberal, post-liberal, critical and decolonial perspectives, as well as providing insights into authoritarian discourse of intervention. This is to understand the assumptions and the politics of diverse conceptual and normative standpoints, the policies and advocacy that derive from them, and the contradictions and trade-offs that remain. Second, the course surveys relations among different actors involved in the intervention and statebuilding projects to zoom in on the intersection between local, transnational, and global politics. This features practices of states and non-state actors as international interveners, local communities, transnational experts and civil society. In effect, students learn about the field as a heterogenous space of contestation. Discerning, scrutinising, and applying these diverse registers and genres helps clarify and develop individual interests while appreciating different styles and positions. Specific themes covered in the course accordingly range from established scholarly concepts (e.g. just war, liberal peace, humanitarian intervention), through evolving policy discourses (e.g. Responsibility to Protect, capacity building, resilience, local ownership) to critical debates (e.g. contestation, militarisation, stratification, decolonisation). By the end of the course, students will have acquired familiarity with current conversations in the field in a granular, theory-informed yet practice-oriented way. Readings and assignments are geared towards enhancing critical analytical skills and honing academic and writing craft, as well as acquiring communication and evaluation competences that are valuable in various transnational settings. In some sessions, required and additional study material incorporates non-scholarly pieces, such as a podcast, a blog post, an interview, a policy report, or a similar form. MAIN OBJECTIVES· Review of the academic field of international intervention and statebuilding · Analysis of questions of intervention and statebuilding from the position of different actors · Analysis of questions of intervention and statebuilding with liberal, post-liberal, critical, and decolonial sensibility· Practice of critical analytical skills· Practice of focused writing in different genres· Exercise of different formats of argumentation