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Discursive construction of intervention: selves, democratic legacies, and Responsibility to Protect in French discourse on Libya / Ostermann, Falk

Ostermann, Falk	Article
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This article analyses French executives' and lawmakers' legitimisations of the intervention in Libya with the aim of understanding the discursive construction of intervention. It investigates the arguments in favour of intervention and the oppositions they were confronted with. To these arguments belong a re-evaluated democratic legacy of France, an identification with the Libyan people, and a debate on Responsibility to Protect and the rule of law in world politics, which have a broader relevance for French actorness abroad. The article applies the Essex School discourse theory and techniques from Interpretive Policy Analysis on executive speeches and parliamentary documents for structuring the debate and for estimating the strength of ideas in their interdiscursive configuration. An ideal-typical explanation of the legitimisation of intervention and of the choice of one policy over another is made. The article argues that going to war in Libya equated to a question of cultural appropriateness.

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Discourse analysis ; R2P ; Sarkozy ; Libyan War ; French Security and Defense Policy ; French Identity

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Fear and Pride Among Fighter Pilots: Combat Emotions During a Bombing Campaign / Moldjord, Christian; Fredriksen, Paal Kristian ; Browning, Larry D

Moldjord, Christian	Journal Article
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This article analyzes the combat emotions of Royal Norwegian Air Force Fighter pilots (hereafter RNoAF) during their bombing campaign over Libya in 2011. Using grounded theory in our interviews with them, we identified 12 categories of their emotions and behaviors, with variations in pride and fear emerging as the two key themes. We show how those two emotions thread through the literature of emotions in combat, and show further how our data, and the resulting matrix from an analysis of it, both apply to and extend that literature. We also show how the high and low variations of pride and fear interact to both support and counter each other. Our findings thus make an important contribution to the combat emotions literature on the action and behavior of fighter pilots.

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Fear ; Grounded Theory ; Self-esteem ; Libyan War ; Pride ; Military Fighter Pilots ;
Combat Emotions

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