Multinational military forces in the global south: iso-dependence and the quest for autonomy in the security geo-culture

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreyra Wachholtz, Matías Daniel Avelino
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/215364
• topic: Multinational military forces; Global south; Isomorphism; Iso-dependence; Epistemic autonomy; Security geo-culture; Forças militares multinacionais; Sul global; Isomorfismo; Geocultura da segurança; Isodependência; Autonomia epistêmica; Fuerzas militares multinacionales; Sur global; Geocultura de seguridad

In the post-Cold War era, only three international military organizations with standing headquarters made up exclusively of militaries of states in the Global South have emerged in the field of peace operations. These are the Southern Cross Binational Peace Force in South America, the African Standby Force, integrating five sub-regional African forces, and the Peninsula Shield Force in the command structures of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The overall objective of this thesisis to analyze the factors that constrain and promote autonomous practices with multinational military forces in the regions of the Global South in the period 2000-2020. As a research hypothesis, we defend that, in a global field of military crisis management dominated by standards and capitals from central countries, the phenomena of organizational isomorphism and external dependence tend to interweave in the formations of multinational military forces in the Global South. For the analysis, we conceptualize a common condition – iso-dependence – in the peripheral formation of international military organizations. Further, this research uses a typological-comparative framework to analyze the organizational and operational differences between the three mentioned multinational military forces. From historical, critical, and postcolonial studies, we argue that the epistemic autonomy to conduct such force models in the peripheries is constrained in the context of a security geoculture whereby specific attributions, knowledge, and security functions have been unevenly distributed in the modern world-system.