Paper short abstract:

The paper aims to integrate anthropological methodologies with the contributions developed by the Critical Studies environment. Taking in consideration the NATO recent interventions, the research tries to produce a dynamic framework and a cosmopolitan outlook able to understand complex emergencies, and multiple stress zones, and their “crisis management” in a globalized context.

Paper long abstract:

The paper aims to integrate in a critical framework the contribution of Anthropologic methodologies with the approaches developed by the environment of Critical Security Studies. The study want to underline the necessity of a dynamic focus on the way conflicts, humanitarian interventions, and complex emergencies have been analysed, and conducted by NATO. If the external military interventions found their moral justifications in the idea of the construction of a "positive peace" in the territories disrupted by violent events, then the research want to ask the following question: now that the conflict has ended are we in a positive peace environment or a negative one? If the "bad" authority has been destroyed or replaced, what about the various local structures of power/violence? Are we still in front of a reproduction of a structural violence (and then a pre-intervention status quo situation) which provoked the conflict or the affected society now is free to reorganise itself? Then we need not only to focus on the territory of the crisis (anthropological contribution) but we have to enlarge our focus and consider that the local conflict (new war) has a map, a ramification outside its own territory. It is only combining the Anthropological lens with the Security Studies global vision that we can arrive to a more sophisticated, emancipatory analysis, and cosmopolitan outlook of the "multiple stress zones" and their "crisis management" in a globalized context.