Justifying interventions-The case of ECOWAS in Liberia
(2021) p.339-353- Abstract
In contrast to the other chapters in Part V, Nina Wilén’s focus is on multilateral military interventions at the regional level: She explores the relationship between sovereignty, intervention, and the international normative order, by examining how ECOWAS, an African regional organization, justified its intervention in Liberia’s civil war referring to international norms. Based on a critical discursive analysis of the speeches related to ECOWAS’ decision to intervene in Liberia in 1990, as well as the responses the justifications provoked from the UN and the United States, it is argued that ECOWAS’ intervention and the justifications which accompanied it were clearly influenced by an international normative order where sovereignty is... (More)
In contrast to the other chapters in Part V, Nina Wilén’s focus is on multilateral military interventions at the regional level: She explores the relationship between sovereignty, intervention, and the international normative order, by examining how ECOWAS, an African regional organization, justified its intervention in Liberia’s civil war referring to international norms. Based on a critical discursive analysis of the speeches related to ECOWAS’ decision to intervene in Liberia in 1990, as well as the responses the justifications provoked from the UN and the United States, it is argued that ECOWAS’ intervention and the justifications which accompanied it were clearly influenced by an international normative order where sovereignty is the key constitutive norm and non-intervention the main regulative norm. Yet the fact that ECOWAS also violated the very same norms through its intervention, created a precedent for future regional interventions and implied long-term consequences for the international normative system.
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- author
- Wilén, Nina LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Domestic community, ECOMOG, ECOWAS, Interpretive community, Intervention, Justification, Liberia, Sovereignty, UN, US
- host publication
- The Justification of War and International Order : From Past to Present - From Past to Present
- pages
- 15 pages
- publisher
- Oxford University Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85113095078
- ISBN
- 9780198865308
- DOI
- 10.1093/oso/9780198865308.003.0019
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 100b0bcf-91e1-4315-b6b1-40d1be842ea2
- date added to LUP
- 2021-09-06 14:59:53
- date last changed
- 2022-04-27 03:42:24
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