Conflict, International Intervention and Local Agency: Education in a Changing Global Order (Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding)

This book analyses international interventions in the education sector of conflict-affected countries in a world order shifting towards multipolarity. The work presents a genealogy of interventions in the education sector and unravels which agendas, among security, peace, humanitarianism and emergency, underpin such interventions.By using a comparative case study analysis across three regional expanses and, more specifically, three countries - Kosovo, Niger and Jordan - the book aims to contribute to reflections on the interaction between the national and the international.The research finds that an overarching stabilization imperative has informed international projects on education reform in the three respective countries.As the world is becoming increasingly multipolar and new threats are being framed as challenging and threatening the security of Western donors, local actors have more agency towards international templates of intervention.The book shows how contemporary processes o