The African Union, France, and Conflict Management in Mali: Preferences, Actions, and Narrations

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding Pub Date : 2022-04-18 DOI:10.1080/17502977.2022.2045147

Martin Welz

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Abstract

ABSTRACT During the Malian crisis of 2012, French president Hollande ruled out French boots on the ground and preferred an African intervention. The African Union (AU) was predestined to lead conflict management. Yet in early 2013, Hollande authorized a French operation, thereby outmaneuvering the AU. Using ‘explaining-outcome process-tracing,’ I seek to uncover the underlying causal mechanisms that explain how the AU could be sidelined. Specifically, I scrutinize the preferences and actions of the AU and French actors and the narrations that elucidated these preferences and actions because as I argue, they are crucial to understand the marginalization of the AU.

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非洲联盟、法国和马里冲突管理：偏好、行动和叙述

摘要在2012年马里危机期间，法国总统奥朗德排除了法国的实际行动，而倾向于非洲的干预。非洲联盟（非盟）注定要领导冲突管理。然而，在2013年初，奥朗德授权法国采取行动，从而击败了非盟。通过“解释结果过程追踪”，我试图揭示解释非盟如何被边缘化的潜在因果机制。具体而言，我仔细审查了非盟和法国行为者的偏好和行动，以及阐明这些偏好和行动的叙述，因为正如我所说，它们对于理解非盟的边缘化至关重要。

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Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding is a cross-disciplinary journal devoted to critical analysis of international intervention, focussing on interactions and practices that shape, influence and transform states and societies. In 21st century political practice, states and other actors increasingly strive to transplant what they see as normatively progressive political orders to other contexts. Accordingly, JISB focuses on the complex interconnections and mutually shaping interactions between donor and recipient communities within military, economic, social, or other interventional contexts, and welcomes perspectives on political life of, and beyond, European state-building processes. The journal brings together academics and practitioners from cross-disciplinary backgrounds, including international relations, political science, political economy, sociology, international law, social anthropology, geography, and regional studies. The editors are particularly interested in specific or comparative in-depth analyses of contemporary or historical interventions and state-building processes that are grounded in careful fieldwork and/or innovative methodologies. Multi or cross-disciplinary contributions and theoretically challenging pieces that broaden the study of intervention and state building to encompass processes of decision-making, or the complex interplay between actors on the ground, are especially encouraged.