Karin Dokken

• Dokken, Karin (2012). Migration as a Security Problem: Grassroots Level Conflict Management and Africa’s Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). In Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Bjørkdahl, Kristian (Ed.), Development and Environment: Practices, Theories, Policies. Akademisk Forlag. ISSN 9788232100330. p. 293–307. Full text in Research Archive
• Dokken, Karin (2010). State Responses to Transnational Challenges: The Evolution of Regional Security Organisations in Africa. Comparative Social Research. ISSN 0195-6310. 27, p. 333–354. Full text in Research Archive
• Dokken, Karin (2009). Svake stater og sterke regimer i Afrika. In Malnes, Raino Sverre (Eds.), Prekær Politikk. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 9788205395084. p. 97–106. Full text in Research Archive
• Dokken, Karin & Claes, Dag Harald (2007). Regionalisme og integrasjon mellom stater. In Hovi, Jon & Malnes, Raino Sverre (Ed.), Anarki, makt og normer. Abstrakt forlag. ISSN 9788279352280. p. 287–317. Full text in Research Archive
• Dokken, Karin (2004). The New Regionalism in Africa. Internasjonal Politikk. ISSN 0020-577X. 62(4), p. 603–608. Full text in Research Archive
• Dokken, Karin (1997). Environmental Conflict and International Integration. In Gleditsch, Nils Petter (Eds.), Conflict and the Environment. Kluwer, Dordrecht. p. 519–534. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  How can regional integration be expected to break the causal links between the main social effects of environmental change and various types of conflict? In particular, how can the fear of environmentally induced conflicts - security considerations - function as a motive force for regional integration between Third World countries? New reasearch within theories of international integration as well as the growing field of theories of international regimes and the environment, will create the theoretical basis of the discussion. I seek to analyse in what way debates on conflict and the environment can be combined, in a fruitful manner, with debates on international regimes and -integration. I will hold that the possibility of an 'environmental conflict' can have important integrative potential.

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• Dokken, Karin (2008). African Security Politics Redefined. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403977618. 247 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Bøås, Morten & Dokken, Karin (2002). Internasjonal Politikk og Utenrikspolitikk i Afrika Sør for Sahara. Universitetsforlaget. 190 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Dokken, Karin (2005). Regional Conflict Management in West Africa. Full text in Research Archive
• Bøås, Morten & Dokken, Karin (2002). Fred i Angola? Dagbladet. ISSN 0805-3766. Full text in Research Archive
• Stålsett, Sturla Johan; Rolfsen, Raag; Dokken, Karin & Haugen, Hans Morten (2000). Sårbarhet og sikkerhet. Aktuelle sikkerhetspolitiske utfordringer i etisk og teologisk perspektiv. Utgitt av Komiteen for internasjonale spørsmål, Mellomkirkelig Råd for Den norske kirke. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Vi står i dag overfor store etiske utfordringer knyttet til menneskelivets sårbarhet og sikkerhet. Komiteen for internasjonale spørsmål under Mellomkirkelig råd for Den norske kirke presenterer i dette dokumentet noen teologiske og etiske overveielser rundt disse aktuelle spørsmål. Formålet er å gi et bidrag fra en kirkelig synsvinkel til den aktuelle debatt om bruk av makt i bekjempelsen av livs- og felleskapsnedbrytende krefter og tilstander i dagens verden. I første kapittel presenteres en forståelse av menneskelig sårbarhet. Mennesker har grunnleggende rett til å bli beskyttet mot vold og ulykke. Dette ansvaret hviler på medmennesker og fellesskap. Samtidig er sårbarheten et kjennetegn ved det menneskelige. Menneskets sårbarhet og utleverthet er betingelsen for dets evne til åpenhet og fellesskap. Sårbarheten er også en unik evne til mottakelighet og medlidelse som setter mennesket i stand til å erkjenne og ivareta sitt etiske ansvar for medmennesket, fellesskapet og livsomgivelsene. Erkjennelse av egen sårbarhet kan fremme vilje til samarbeid framfor konflikt. Fiendskap er en større fristelse for den som kjenner seg usårbar - og regner med å vinne fram. Dette motiverer for en ny gjennomtenkning av hva sikkerhet egentlig innebærer. Det er i dag utilstrekkelig å operere med et sikkerhetsbegrep som utelukkende knytter seg til staters suverenitet. Denne forståelsen må utvides og dreies i flere henseender. Et kirkelig arbeid for fred bygger på de profetiske ord om den svakestes rett, og på det evangeliske kallet til forsoning og fiendekjærlighet. Hva kan være spesifikt kirkelige bidrag til arbeidet for en mindre voldelige verden?

• Dokken, Karin (1997). Environment, Security and Regional Integration in West Africa. Department of Political Science. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The study explores the extent to whist environment and security issues can function as motive forces in regional integration processes. The background of the study is divided into three: Firstly, the study takes as its point of departure the need to direct attention towards the relationship between "sustainable development" and international cooperation on a high political and economical level. Secondly, the study takes its departure in the general debate concerning the relationship between environmental change and comprehensive security, including the concept "environmental security". Briefly, this concept is based on the idea that comprehensive human security is made up of two interrelated components: political military security on the one hand (with its military economic and social subcomponents); and environmental security on the other (with its saving-oriented and utilization-oriented subcomponents). Neither of these components is attainable or sustainable unless the other is also satisfied. Thirdly, the study takes its departure in the debate concerning the role of so-called "high politics" in processes of regional integration. High politics is politics that concern vital national interests, politics that the actors regard as sensitive to the nation and that are dealt with by the highest authorities of the nation state. Academic disagreement about this very concept were in the 1970s an important reason why neo-functionalist theories of regional integration were questioned and finally rejected, without new comprehensive theories having replaced them. It is now possible to revitalize regional integration theories by explicitly linkig the concept of "high politics" to the functionalist models and letting this concept play a central part in the analysis of the development of processes of regional integration. My general hypothesis is as follows: Among industrial countries, economic interdependence is usually the point of departure for integration. In Third World countries, however, issues of politico-military security are more likely to generate calls for intergovernmental cooperation (although the official reason may well be economic). Increasingly, the same will apply to problems of environmental security. Both shared hazards and shared resources are now poised to aquire significant integrative potential. In Third World countries, these security concerns will constitute the interdependence up-front and the point of departure for integration. I wish to show how environmental security matters, if defined as high politics, can function as motive forces in processes of functional integration. I argue that political will, basing on the interests of the political actors will be decisive for the initiation and development of integration. Furthermore, if integration is to become more than mere declarations of the initial stages of an integration process, there must be forces sufficiently persuading for the parties involved: and such forces will most often be related to high politics. Part one of the study contains introduction and theoretical framework for the study of regional integration. After a presentation of the intellectual debate concerning the relationship between security and the environment, I discuss the relationship between theories and methods in the study of regional integration. Thereafter I introduce an outline for a new theoretical framework for the study of regional integration. Part two of the study is an empirical analysis of environment, security and regional integration in West Africa, based on the theoretical framework of part one. Three groups of organizations are analyzed: 1. Economic organizations, represented by ECOWAS and CEAO. 2. Natural resources organizations, represented by CILSS and WARDA. 3. Extending Natural resources organization, represented by OMVS and LCBC. Part two ends with a discussion of how to coordinate West African integr...

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