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Spring 2004.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This essay takes as it starting point that meta-theoretical assumptions affect our analyses of UN peace operations and have normative consequences. It demonstrates how this fact could be taken into account in such analyses by introducing an approach to the study of security - Critical Security Studies (CSS) - and by showing how the central ideas of this approach may be fitted into an alternative framework for analysis. This framework is based on the method of immanent critique and is in particular concerned with conceptions of security and human emancipation. An illustration of how this framework can be utilized to study the UN's preventive deployment in Macedonia is then provided. It is argued that some of this UN operation's activities can be regarded as contributions to a process of emancipation in Macedonia
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