Abstract
The findings in Chap. 4 direct the searchlight in the remaining parts of the book. The first qualitative empirical chapter (Chap. 5) contains a case study where different narratives regarding the discussions on intervention/nonintervention in Côte d’Ivoire are analyzed. More precisely, this case study focuses particularly on the narratives concerning UNSC resolution 1975 (30 March 2011). The decisions behind this resolution rendered a different direction compared to that of Libya - which resulted in an intervention. (Chap. 6), with a more passive stance in the case of Côte d’Ivoire based on a traditional blue helmet operation.
The results show how these different lines of action were accompanied by different degrees of media attention and, more importantly, different degrees of mediatization of the foreign policy roles. The case of Côte d’Ivoire was characterized by traditional long-term decision-making defined by international stability. Here France, as a traditional regional great power, played an important role in mapping out the road ahead, a road that did not include the same large-scale military intervention seen in the case of Libya.
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Félix Houphouët-Boigny’s name has even been used to name a famous peace prize. The UNESCO Peace Prize was established in 1989. It is awarded “to honour living people who have contributed significantly to the promotion, research or safeguarding of peace while complying with the Charter of the United Nations and UNESCO’s constitution.”
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France has denied a role in the arrest of Gbagbo.
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Brommesson, D., Ekengren, AM. (2017). Political Logic at Play in Côte d’Ivoire. In: The Mediatization of Foreign Policy, Political Decision-Making, and Humanitarian Intervention. The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54461-2_5
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