Adance-sponsored by IAI – Istituto Affari Internazionali – on September 8, 2024 https://www.iai.it/it/pubblicazioni/c10/international-spectator-vol-59-no-3-september-2024 and published online on September 9, 2024 in the International Spectator, TANDF, 53, 3, https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rspe20/59/3, Eugenia Baroncelli and Daniela Irrera’s Guest-edited Special Issue ‘The Triple Nexus and the Future of Multilateral Governance: Rethinking Coordination between Humanitarian, Development and Peacebuilding Efforts’ features a conversation between scholars and practitioners from different continents and intellectual traditions, that engage IR, IPE, Development and Economics literatures on the future of multilateral cooperation in a fragmented international context. The articles featured in this SI dive into the promises and challenges of the UN-coordinated Triple Nexus Approach to joined endeavors in these three policy areas. Calling the attention on potential alternatives to the Liberal International Order from peripheral contexts, the Special Issue also reflects on the risk that both top-down and bottom-up regressive power dynamics reduce the emancipation potential of the Triple Nexus, and advocates remedial actions from the best policy practices towards a more peaceful and just world order. The UN-orchestrated Triple Nexus – a multilateral endeavour to provide humanitarian-development-peace responses in fragile and conflict-affected contexts – embodies several features of the emerging trend towards governance through regime complexity. Praised for its multi-actorness inclusivity and cross-policy experimentalism, the Nexus approach has been criticised as an attempt to replicate top-down, neo-liberal templates to govern crises in the peripheries. We analyse the new evidence provided in this Special Issue, connecting it to the debate on the future of multilateral governance, against the decline of the Liberal International Order (LIO). Guarding against naïve expectations of the Nexus as a panacea to bridge cross-policy gaps and bring about inter-agency cooperation amidst increased geopolitical tensions, we discuss its potential to become a venue for an enlarged conversation among traditional and new players. While also compatible with pluralist scenarios, a progressive variety of the Nexus may well emerge in the UN context, between Western and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) players. Their shared understandings of civil and political rights offer a promising avenue to advance some forward-looking Nexus components, supportive of individual and nature-based rights, to govern the increased complexity of the current multiplex order.
Baroncelli, E., Irrera, D. (2024). The Triple Nexus and the Future of Multilateral Governance: Rethinking Coordination between Humanitarian, Development and Peacebuilding Efforts. Abingdon : Taylor and Francis.
The Triple Nexus and the Future of Multilateral Governance: Rethinking Coordination between Humanitarian, Development and Peacebuilding Efforts
Eugenia Baroncelli
;Daniela Irrera
2024
Abstract
Adance-sponsored by IAI – Istituto Affari Internazionali – on September 8, 2024 https://www.iai.it/it/pubblicazioni/c10/international-spectator-vol-59-no-3-september-2024 and published online on September 9, 2024 in the International Spectator, TANDF, 53, 3, https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rspe20/59/3, Eugenia Baroncelli and Daniela Irrera’s Guest-edited Special Issue ‘The Triple Nexus and the Future of Multilateral Governance: Rethinking Coordination between Humanitarian, Development and Peacebuilding Efforts’ features a conversation between scholars and practitioners from different continents and intellectual traditions, that engage IR, IPE, Development and Economics literatures on the future of multilateral cooperation in a fragmented international context. The articles featured in this SI dive into the promises and challenges of the UN-coordinated Triple Nexus Approach to joined endeavors in these three policy areas. Calling the attention on potential alternatives to the Liberal International Order from peripheral contexts, the Special Issue also reflects on the risk that both top-down and bottom-up regressive power dynamics reduce the emancipation potential of the Triple Nexus, and advocates remedial actions from the best policy practices towards a more peaceful and just world order. The UN-orchestrated Triple Nexus – a multilateral endeavour to provide humanitarian-development-peace responses in fragile and conflict-affected contexts – embodies several features of the emerging trend towards governance through regime complexity. Praised for its multi-actorness inclusivity and cross-policy experimentalism, the Nexus approach has been criticised as an attempt to replicate top-down, neo-liberal templates to govern crises in the peripheries. We analyse the new evidence provided in this Special Issue, connecting it to the debate on the future of multilateral governance, against the decline of the Liberal International Order (LIO). Guarding against naïve expectations of the Nexus as a panacea to bridge cross-policy gaps and bring about inter-agency cooperation amidst increased geopolitical tensions, we discuss its potential to become a venue for an enlarged conversation among traditional and new players. While also compatible with pluralist scenarios, a progressive variety of the Nexus may well emerge in the UN context, between Western and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) players. Their shared understandings of civil and political rights offer a promising avenue to advance some forward-looking Nexus components, supportive of individual and nature-based rights, to govern the increased complexity of the current multiplex order.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
