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Securitizing Libya: The securitizing aspects of UN:s and NATO:s justification of Operation Unified Protector

Norelius, Christian LU (2014) FKVK02 20141
Department of Political Science
Abstract
One of the toughest challenges for the international community is to justify military interventions in sovereign states. Echoing in terms of post-colonialism, underlying interest and power domination, military interventions must be argued for and legitimized in order to gain support from both public and institutional opinion. This is even more essential in our modern era with its rapid and unimpeded flow of communication and information regarding the state and affairs of the world. This study presents how the international community achieves such justifications from a securitizing perspective. By reflecting the military intervention against the Qadhafi regime in Libya 2011 and using a descriptive idea analysis, I uncover the implicit... (More)
One of the toughest challenges for the international community is to justify military interventions in sovereign states. Echoing in terms of post-colonialism, underlying interest and power domination, military interventions must be argued for and legitimized in order to gain support from both public and institutional opinion. This is even more essential in our modern era with its rapid and unimpeded flow of communication and information regarding the state and affairs of the world. This study presents how the international community achieves such justifications from a securitizing perspective. By reflecting the military intervention against the Qadhafi regime in Libya 2011 and using a descriptive idea analysis, I uncover the implicit messages of the UNSC Resolution 1973 which authorized the intervention, and in statements by NATO who executed it, and connect these expressions to the securitization theory. This I argue shows how the international community raises security issues, conditioned with crisis and emergency, in order to justify interventions. (Less)
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author
Norelius, Christian LU
supervisor
organization
course
FKVK02 20141
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Securitization, Referent Object, Securitizing Actor, Securitizing Speech Act, Military Intervention, Libya, UNSC, NATO
language
English
id
4451370
date added to LUP
2014-07-07 14:37:01
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2014-07-07 14:37:01
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  abstract     = {{One of the toughest challenges for the international community is to justify military interventions in sovereign states. Echoing in terms of post-colonialism, underlying interest and power domination, military interventions must be argued for and legitimized in order to gain support from both public and institutional opinion. This is even more essential in our modern era with its rapid and unimpeded flow of communication and information regarding the state and affairs of the world. This study presents how the international community achieves such justifications from a securitizing perspective. By reflecting the military intervention against the Qadhafi regime in Libya 2011 and using a descriptive idea analysis, I uncover the implicit messages of the UNSC Resolution 1973 which authorized the intervention, and in statements by NATO who executed it, and connect these expressions to the securitization theory. This I argue shows how the international community raises security issues, conditioned with crisis and emergency, in order to justify interventions.}},
  author       = {{Norelius, Christian}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Securitizing Libya: The securitizing aspects of UN:s and NATO:s justification of Operation Unified Protector}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}