Security identities and ‘no more, no less’ operations: On making NATO’s involvement in darfur possible

African solutions to African problems; Darfur; Discursive practices; Identity; Intervention; NATO; Poststructuralism; Responsibility to protect; World police; Political Science and International Relations; Law

Abstract :

[en] This article explores NATO’s support mission to the African Union’s peacekeeping operation in Darfur, Sudan between 2005 and 2007. NATO policies are commonly presented as functional responses to events, but how did a conflict on the African continent become the Atlantic Alliance’s business? In this essay, a poststructuralist practice-oriented approach is used to understand the way in which discursive practices progressively establish a policy option as ‘natural’ in a given situation. It is argued that the normalization of NATO’s support mission to the African Union in Darfur and the integration of this operation in NATO’s security identity were the result of complex and conflict-ridden social interactions between different discursive practices supported by different actors.

Disciplines :

Political science, public administration & international relations

Author, co-author :

Pomarède, Julien ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de science politique > Politique internationale : International Politics In a Comparative Perspective ; International Relations and member of the Research, Teaching Centre in International Politics (REPI), Belgium ; Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium

Schjødt, Théa; Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium

Language :

English

Title :

Security identities and ‘no more, no less’ operations: On making NATO’s involvement in darfur possible

Publication date :

2015

Journal title :

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

ISSN :

1750-2977

Publisher :

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

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Issue :

Pages :

495 - 518

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Additional URL :

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17502977.2015.1089665

Funding text :

The authors thank to Dr. J. Kopecký, Institute of Microbiology AS ČR, Treboň for providing a sample of culture medium. This work was supported by the Slovak Grant Agency VEGA (grant nos. 1/0160/17 , 2/0051/18 and 1/0253/19 ).

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