L’impact social : benign neglect ou face cachée de la finance entrepreneuriale ?

2021 ◽  
Vol n° 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
Julien Benomar ◽  
Didier Chabaud
Keyword(s):  
Benign Neglect

Explaining the Politics of Security: Syrian Refugees in Turkey and Lebanon

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sefa Secen
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Benign Neglect ◽  
The Media ◽  
High Level

Abstract Under what conditions do governments view and respond to the arrival of refugees primarily as a security threat? Comparatively analyzing the securitization of Syrian refugees in two host countries, Turkey and Lebanon, this paper proposes a domestic political context–based theory and typology of securitization. Based on a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of the media data including mainstream national Turkish and Lebanese newspaper articles, this research first differentiates between different levels of securitization and finds that moderate securitization in Lebanon during the early years of the refugee crisis (2013–2014) coincided with an open border policy, inaction, legal ambiguity, and benign neglect. From 2015, a marked increase of securitization in Lebanon coincided with controlled borders, restrictive policies, and heightened tension. Securitization of Syrian refugees has followed a somewhat different trajectory in Turkey, where the state switched from non-recognition (2013–2014) to recognition (2014–2016) and then from recognition to integration (2016–present), while a decrease in securitization mapped onto this policy trajectory despite the opposition's and the public's increasing discontentment with the presence of refugees. Then, this paper argues that the low level of securitization in Turkey is an outcome of the incumbent party's Islamist political ideology that motivates transnational religious solidarity, whereas the high level of securitization in Lebanon is a consequence of elite divisions and the country's unique historical experiences with Palestinian refugees that engender competing security perspectives and agendas on Syrian refugees. Overall, this study demonstrates how contextual or domestic factors are key to explaining government attitudes toward refugee groups and contributes to our understanding of the sources and processes of securitization.

scholarly journals Philosophies of integration? Elite views on citizenship policies in Scandinavia

Ethnicities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146879682095045
Author(s):  
Grete Brochmann ◽  
Arnfinn H Midtbøen
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Civic Integration ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Benign Neglect ◽  
European Citizenship ◽  
Gradual Introduction ◽  
Control Dimension ◽  
Elite Interviews ◽  
Liberal Approach

Research on the ‘civic turn’ in European citizenship policies suggests that concerns over immigrant integration have fueled the restrictive development of citizenship policies in recent decades. However, few efforts have been made to explore the normative ideas underlying this development. Departing from Favell’s (1998) influential concept of ‘philosophies of integration’, this article draws on elite-interviews with top-level bureaucrats, politicians and citizenship experts in the Scandinavian countries and explores how ideas about nationhood and integration have influenced the divergence in citizenship policies in the region, and what overall purpose the policy-changes reflect. We find that, especially in Denmark, the gradual introduction of ever more demanding civic integration requirements appears to be a part of the broader aim of controlling the inflow of migrants and not to enhance the integration of those already present in the country. Conversely, the Swedish liberal approach to citizenship, which regularly has been analyzed as a steppingstone to societal integration, might in reality have been a reflection of benign neglect. In Norway, immigrant integration has clearly been part of the underlying rationale for changes in naturalization requirements, yet the control dimension have played an increasingly important role. These findings suggests that, although the citizenship institution remains important in nation states’ efforts to solve their ‘ethnic dilemmas’, the underlying rationale behind policy-change is more multifaceted than previously understood.

Les concepts souffrent-ils de négligence bénigne en sciences sociales? Eléments d’analyse conceptuelle et examen exploratoire de la littérature francophone à caractère méthodologique

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre-Marc Daigneault ◽  
Steve Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Benign Neglect ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Rules And Principles ◽  
American Political Science ◽  
Sciences Sociales ◽  
Scientific Endeavour

Concepts are essential to any scientific endeavour aimed at ‘discovering’ the nature of ‘reality’. Yet, concepts and their analysis have received scant attention from scholars as objects worth studying and teaching in and of themselves, especially in comparison to data collection and analysis techniques. When scholars venture into analyzing concepts, they generally proceed informally, thereby raising serious concerns in terms of the validity of their findings. Conceptual analysis seems to be unrecognized and even unappreciated. This article aims to mitigate this problem. We first offer a few basic principles of conceptual analysis drawn from North American political science. After examining the nature of concepts and their importance to science, the work of Giovanni Sartori is used to establish a few rules and principles to follow when performing conceptual work. Using a sample of francophone methodological literature, we then conduct a plausibility probe of the hypothesis according to which conceptual analysis suffers from ‘benign neglect’. Based on this empirical test, we conclude that while many books explicitly deal with conceptual analysis, very few do so systematically.

Benign Neglect: Minimum Feasible Understanding

1970 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-152
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Benign Neglect

Organizing Strategies for Advancing Women in International Studies

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary K. Meyer McAleese ◽  
Susan S. Northcutt
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Formal Organization ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Benign Neglect ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
The Status ◽  
Male Dominated

The interdisciplinary field of international studies has traditionally been a male-dominated field. Indeed, the field of international relations, both theory and practice, has been argued to be gendered in highly masculinist ways. Whether as practitioners or as scholars, women have had a difficult time entering and advancing in such male-dominated fields, both in the United States and around the world. Their admittance and full acceptance in the profession has been hindered by laws and regulations, institutional practices and inertia, gendered stereotypes and customary expectations, overt discrimination and subtle biases, or benign neglect. As such, women have adopted a number of different strategies to make their ways into such male-dominated fields. These include working to expand the field to encompass questions of interest to women, developing new networks with other women for mentorship and resource development, and organizing themselves into distinct groups to promote women’s professional interests and advancement. One of these women’s organizations is Women’s Caucus for International Studies (WCIS), a formal section within the International Studies Association (ISA). Since its formal organization in 1996, the Women’s Caucus has worked hard to fulfill its mission of upgrading the status of women in the profession. Specifically, it seeks to promote equal opportunities for women in their professional lives, as well as women’s professional development. The Caucus fulfills its mission in numerous ways, including sponsoring scores of panels and roundtables focused on women’s professional development, and organizing mentoring networks, both inside the Caucus and beyond.

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