TY - JOUR
T1 - A tale of three French interventions
T2 - Intervention entrepreneurs and institutional intervention choices
AU - Henke, Marina E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Northwestern University Farrell Fund.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020/6/6
Y1 - 2020/6/6
N2 - What factors explain the institutional shape of military interventions spearheaded by France? This article suggests that Intervention Entrepreneurs are the deciding agents. To secure the viability of their intervention proposal, they select an intervention venue based on pragmatic grounds. Most importantly, they carefully study possible domestic and international opposition to their intervention plans and conceive institutional intervention choices accordingly. The result is an ad hoc selection of intervention venues with little impact of political ideology, norms, organisational interests, or historical learning. Moreover, on many occasions, little attention is paid to which intervention format would most benefit the peace and prosperity in the conflict theatre in the medium to long term. The article illustrates this argument by tracing French institutional decision-making for interventions in Chad/CAR, Mali, and Libya.
AB - What factors explain the institutional shape of military interventions spearheaded by France? This article suggests that Intervention Entrepreneurs are the deciding agents. To secure the viability of their intervention proposal, they select an intervention venue based on pragmatic grounds. Most importantly, they carefully study possible domestic and international opposition to their intervention plans and conceive institutional intervention choices accordingly. The result is an ad hoc selection of intervention venues with little impact of political ideology, norms, organisational interests, or historical learning. Moreover, on many occasions, little attention is paid to which intervention format would most benefit the peace and prosperity in the conflict theatre in the medium to long term. The article illustrates this argument by tracing French institutional decision-making for interventions in Chad/CAR, Mali, and Libya.
KW - Central African Republic
KW - Chad
KW - France
KW - Libya
KW - Mali
KW - Military intervention
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U2 - 10.1080/01402390.2020.1733988
DO - 10.1080/01402390.2020.1733988
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081342107
VL - 43
SP - 583
EP - 606
JO - Journal of Strategic Studies
JF - Journal of Strategic Studies
SN - 0140-2390
IS - 4
ER -