Pol Bargués

Pol Bargués es investigador sénior de CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs), donde trabaja en el proyecto JOINT (dentro del programa Horizonte 2020 de la UE) que examina la acción exterior de la UE y la idea de facilitar paz y resiliencia en países en conflicto. También contribuye al proyecto REGROUP sobre gobernanza y políticas tras el impacto del Covid-19 y al proyecto SHAPEDEM sobre políticas de apoyo a la democracia de la UE en su vecindario sur.

Obtuvo el doctorado con la Universidad de Westminster, en el Reino Unido, el 2014. Antes de empezar a trabajar por el CIDOB en 2018, hizo investigación posdoctoral en el Centre for Global Cooperation Research y en el Institute for Development and Peace (los dos de la Universidad de Duisburg-Essen, en Alemania). También ha enseñado varios cursos de Relaciones Internacionales en la Universidad de Groningen, en los Países Bajos, y en el Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals.

Durante estos años ha explorado el diálogo entre las relaciones internacionales, teorías críticas y la filosofía. Ha analizado críticamente intervenciones internacionales en países afectados por conflicto y explorado las ideas de resiliencia, hibridez y esperanza. Es autor del libro Deferring Peace in International Statebuilding: Difference, Resilience and Critique (Routledge 2018; traducido al español como Paz diferida: Diferencia, resiliencia y crítica en las intervenciones internacionales por el Instituto Català per la Pau en 2021). Tiene numerosas publicaciones en revistas de renombre cómo Review of International Studies, Democratization, Global Society, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Millennium Review of International Studies o Democratization. Desde 2020, es editor jefe del Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding y de la serie de libros Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding.

Publicaciones externas

Books 

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol, David Chandler and Elena Simon (2018) Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age. London: Routledge

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol (2018) Deferring Peace in International Statebuilding: Difference, Resilience and Critique London: Routledge  

Articles  

Pol Bargués, Jonathan Joseph, Ana E Juncos (2023) Rescuing the liberal international order: crisis, resilience and EU security policy. International Affairs 99 (6), 2281–2299. 

Pol Bargués, David Chandler, Sebastian Schindler and Valerie Waldow (2023) Hope after ‘the end of the world’: rethinking critique in the Anthropocene. Contemporary Political Theory 

Pol Bargués (2023) Liberal Peacebuilding and its Critiques. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies

Pol Bargués, María Martín de Almagro & Katrin Travouillon (2023) New Visions, Critiques, and Hope in the Post-Liberal Age? A Call for Rethinking Intervention and Statebuilding, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 17(1), 1-15.

Maria Martin de Almagro & Pol Bargués (2022) A feminist opening of resilience: Elizabeth Grosz, Liberian Peace Huts and IR critiques. Journal of International Relations and Development. 25, pages 967–992. 

Pol Bargués & Schmidt, Jessica (2021) Resilience and the Rise of Speculative Humanitarianism: Thinking Difference through the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Millennium: Journal of International Studies 49 (2), pp. 197-223.

Bargués, Pol & Morillas, Pol (2021) From democratization to fostering resilience: EU intervention and the challenges of building institutions, social trust, and legitimacy in Bosnia and HerzegovinaDemocratization, 28:7, 1319-1337.

Bargués, Pol (2020) ‘Peacebuilding without peace? On how pragmatism complicates the practice of international interventionReview of International Studies 46 (2), 237-255.

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol (2020) ‘Resilience is “always more” than our practices: Limits, critiques, and skepticism about international interventionContemporary Security Policy 41 (2), 263-286.

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol and Maria Martin de Almagro (2020) ‘Prevention From Afar: Gendering Resilience and Sustaining Hope in Post-UNMIL LiberiaJournal of Intervention and Statebuilding 14 (3), 327-348.

Bargués, Pol (2020) 75 años de Naciones Unidas: La ONU y la Idea de Sostener la Paz en un Mundo Multipolar 72 (2): 341-349.

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol (2019) ‘From Critique to Affirmation in International RelationsGlobal Society 32 (1), 1-19.

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol and Jessica Schmidt (2019) ‘Learning to Be Postmodern in an All Too Modern World: “Whatever Action” in International Climate Change ImaginariesGlobal Society 32 (1), 45-65.

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol and Xavier Mathieu (2018) ‘Beyond Silence, Obstacle and Enigma: Revisiting the Problem of Difference in Peacebuilding’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 12 (3), 283-299.  See also edited book from special issue: The Politics of Peacebuilding in a Diverse World: Difference Exposed (London: Routledge).

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol and Elisa Randazzo (2018) 'Hybrid peace revisited: an opportunity for considering self-governance?' Third World Quarterly 39 (8), 1543-1560.

Pol Bargués-Pedreny (2017) 'Connolly and the never-ending critiques of liberal peace: from the privilege of difference to vorarephilia'Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 30 (2-3), 216-234.  

Pol Bargués-Pedreny  (2016) ‘From Promoting to De-Emphasising “Ethnicity”: Rethinking the Endless Supervision of Kosovo’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 10 (3), 222-240.  

Pol Bargués-Pedreny (2015) ‘Realising the “Postmodern” Dream: Strengthening the Resilience of Post-Conflict Societies and the Promise of Peace,’ Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses, 3 (2), 113–132.  

Book Chapters 

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol (2022). Més guerra per continuar la guerra. En: FundiPau (edició i coordinació). Aprenentatges pendents arran de la guerra Ucraïna. 

Bargués, Pol (2021) 'Conclusion: European vulnerability and the policy dilemmas of resilience in times of coronavirus' in Elena Korosteleva and Trine Flockhart Resilience in EU and International Institutions Redefining Local Ownership in a New Global Governance Agenda. London and New York: Routledge.

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol and Xavier Mathieu (2019) ‘Intervening in a Diverse World: Revisiting the ‘problem’ of difference in international statebuilding’. In: Nicolas Lemay-Hébert Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding. Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol, David Chandler and Elena Simon (2018) ‘Introduction’. In Pol Bargués-Pedreny, David Chandler and Elena Simon Mapping and Politics in the Digital Age. London: Routledge

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol (2018)‘Mapping without the world and the poverty of digital humanitarians’. In Pol Bargués-Pedreny, David Chandler and Elena Simon Mapping and Politics in an Age of Critique. London: Routledge, 2018.  

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol ‘False Promise: Local Ownership and the Denial of Self-Government’. In Tobias Debiel, Thomas Held and Ulrich Schneckener (Eds.) Peacebuilding in Crisis? Rethinking Paradigms and Practices of Transnational Cooperation, pp. 227-239 (London: Routledge Global Cooperation Series, 2016).  

Other contributions, blog engagement

Bargués, Pol & Schmidt, Jessica (2021).  The Tragic Practice of Prevention. Centre for Global Cooperation Research. Quarterly Magazine (April) 

Bargués, Pol (2020) Containing Coronavirus: Resilience in Times of Catastrophe. E-International Relations, March 23. 

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol, Kai Koddenbrock, Jessica Schmidt and Mario Schmidt (2015) Ends of Critique. Global Dialogue. Duisburg: Käte Hamburger Research/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research 2015.  

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol,  Kai Koddenbrock, Jessica Schmidt and Mario Schmidt (2015) ‘Introduction’. In: Pol Bargués-Pedreny, Kai Koddenbrock, Jessica Schmidt and Mario Schmidt (eds.), Ends of Critique. Global Dialogue 10, pp. 6-10. Duisburg: Käte Hamburger Research/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research 2015

Bargués-Pedreny, Pol (2015)‘The Betrayal of the New Utopianism.’ In Pol Bargues-Pedreny, Kai Koddenbrock, Jessica Schmidt and Mario Schmidt (Eds.) Ends of Critique. Global Dialogue 10, pp. 62-73 (Duisburg: Käte Hamburger Research/ Centre for Global Cooperation Research, 2015).