Mandy Turner

Visiting Senior Fellow

Dr Mandy Turner joined the MEC as Visiting Senior Fellow in September 2014. She is also the Director of the Kenyon Institute (Council for British Research in the Levant) in East Jerusalem. Previously her posts have included: Lecturer in conflict resolution at the University of Bradford, and Teaching Fellow in international peace and security at University College London. Her research focuses thematically on the political economy of war and peace, with a country specialism on Palestine. Recent research has also focused on political activists in Israel. She was a founding member of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, and from 2007-2015 was co-editor of the journal International Peacekeeping.

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Contact Details

Email: mandyturner@cbrl.org.uk 
Telephone: +972 2 582 8101

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Research Interests

• Political economy of the occupied Palestinian territory
• Political economy of war and peace
• Political activism in Israel
• Peacebuilding and development
• The politics of international intervention

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Selected Publications

Edited Books

• The Politics of International Intervention: the Tyranny of Peace, (co-editor with Florian Kühn), Routledge, 2016.
  
  
• Decolonising Palestinian Political Economy: De-development and Beyond (co-editor with Omar Shweiki), PalgraveMacmillan, 2014.
  
  
• Whose Peace?: Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding (co-editor with Michael Pugh and Neil Cooper), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008/2011. 

Referred Journal Articles

• “Creating a counterhegemonic praxis: Israeli activists and the challenge to Zionism”, Conflict, Security and Development, special issue on ‘Palestine/Israel after Oslo: Mapping transformations and alternatives in a time of deepening crisis’ (co-edited with Cherine Hussein), November 2015.
  
  
• “Israel-Palestine after Oslo: mapping transformations and alternatives in a time of deepening crisis” (with Cherine Hussein), Conflict, Security and Development, 2015, op cit, 415–424.

• “Peacebuilding as counterinsurgency in the occupied Palestinian territory” Review of International Studies, 41, 2015 pp.73-98.
  
  
• “The iron fist of liberal intervention inside the velvet glove of Kantian idealism: a response to Burke” (with Neil Cooper), Critical Studies on Security, 1 (1): 35-41, 2013.

• “Completing the circle: peacebuilding as colonial practice in the occupied Palestinian territory”, International Peacekeping, 19(5), 2012, pp.492-507.

• “The End of History and the Last Liberal Peacebuilder: a Reply to Roland Paris (with Michael Pugh and Neil Cooper) in Review of International Studies, 37(3), 2011, pp.1995-2007.

• “Creating ‘Partners for Peace’: the Palestinian Authority and the International Statebuilding Agenda”, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 4(1), 2011, pp.1-21.

• “The Power of ‘Shock and Awe’: the Palestinian Authority and the Road to Reform”, International Peacekeeping, 16 (4), August 2009, pp.562-577.

• “Society Must Be Protected: Polanyi’s ‘Double Movement’ and the Regulation of Conflict Goods”, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 2007: pp. 85-99.

• “Building Democracy in Palestine: Liberal Peace Theory and the Election of Hamas”, Democratization, 13 (5), 2006: pp.739-755.

• “Taming Mammon: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Global Regulation of Conflict Trade”, Conflict, Security and Development, 6 (3), Dec. 2006: pp.365-387.

• “Towards a New Agenda for Transforming War Economies” (with Michael Pugh), Conflict, Security and Development, Vol. 6, No.3. Dec. 2006: pp. 471-479.

Book Chapters

• “The peacebuilding-counterinsurgency nexus in the occupied Palestinian territory”, in Markus-Michael Müller and Louise Wiuff (Eds.) Reconfiguring Intervention: Complexity, Resilience and the "Local Turn" in Counterinsurgent Warfare, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
  
  
• “Peacebuilding in Palestine: Western strategies in a context of colonisation”, in Karim Makdisi and Vijay Prashad (eds.), The UN in the Arab World, University of California Press, 2016.

• “Securing and stabilizing: Peacebuilding as counterinsurgency in the occupied Palestinian territory”, The Politics of International Intervention, 2016, op cit.
  
  
• “Richard Falk, a citizen-pilgrim for Palestine: Bearing witness and the role of UN Special Rapporteur for the oPt”, Henry Frank Carey and George J. Andreopoulous, R. Justice and World Order: Reassessing Richard Falk’s Scholarship and Advocacy, Routledge, 2016.
  
  
• “The political economy of western aid in the occupied Palestinian territory since the Oslo Accord”, Decolonizing Palestinian Political Economy, 2014/2016, op cit.

• “Statebuilding in Palestine: caught between occupation, realpolitik and the liberal peace” in David Chandler and Timothy D. Sisk (eds.) Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding, Abingdon: Routledge, 2013, pp.339-349.

• “Security, Cooptation and Resistance: Peaebuilding-as-Fragmentation in the occupied Palestinian territory” in Oliver P. Richmond and Audra Mitchell (eds.) Hybrid Forms of Peace: From the ‘Everyday’ to Post-Liberalism, Basingstoke: PalgraveMacmillan, 2011, pp.188-207.

•  “Institutionalised and Co-opted: Why Human Security has Lost its Way”, (with Michael Pugh and Neil Cooper) in David Chandler and Nik Hynek (eds) Critical Perspectives on Human Security: Discourses of Emancipation and Regimes of Power, Routledge, 2010.

• “Diasporas and Postconflict Reconstruction”, in Ashok Swain and John Hall (eds), Diasporas and their Involvement in Peace Processes, Uppsala University, November 2007.

Other Publications

• “Killing the zombie peace and building a new movement”, contribution to roundtable on Israel-Palestine, Mediterranean Politics, 2016. First View.
  
  
• “Time to think about an alternative to the Oslo framework” in Making the progressive case for peace in Israel and Palestine: Labour Party policies to support the rule of law and human rights, Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East Briefing, 2015.
  
  
• “Challenges of Implementing the Palestinian Statebuilding Programme”, presentation to the UN Seminar on Assistance to the Palestinian People, ‘Mobilising Efforts in Support of the Palestinian Government’s Statebuilding Programme’, 28-29 April 2011, Helsinki.
  
  
• “The Forgotten People”, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 6(1): March 2012, pp.107-115.

• “Civil War and its Discontents”, International Peacekeeping, 15 (5), 2008: pp.706-712.