International Intervention and Social Recognition of Sovereignty

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  • 国際介入と主権の社会的認識
  • 国際介入と主権の社会的認識--ボスニア・ヘルツェゴヴィナ、レバノン、ソマリアにおける国際社会と大衆
  • コクサイ カイニュウ ト シュケン ノ シャカイテキ ニンシキ ボスニア ヘルツェゴヴィナ レバノン ソマリア ニ オケル コクサイ シャカイ ト タイシュウ
  • ボスニア・ヘルツェゴヴィナ、レバノン、ソマリアにおける国際社会と大衆
  • The International Community and People in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon, and Somalia

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Abstract

This study investigates the people's attitudes on the international intervention into the conflicts, through statistical analyses of “People on War,” Project. The project collected citizens' voices from 12 conflict zones through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), for the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions in 1999. Most of the existing studies on international intervention discussed its legitimacy accompanied by vast human sacrifices, or the political processes where the decisions for interventions took place in various international organizations. This study, in contrast, examined the attitudes of ordinary citizens from the conflict zones on the international community.<br>The article has analyzed how the different styles of the interventions of the international community had influenced the respondents'attitudes on the international community. It demonstrated that many respondents in the conflict zones hoped for further intervention into the conflicts, especially in Lebanon. Moreover, those who relied on the United Nations or its peacekeeping activities in preventing mistreatments tended to agree on more interventions in all of the three cases. The coefficients of ethnicity variables did not show any statistical significance in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where the UN activities had been accompanied by enforcement measures. On the other hand, those of the religious variables demonstrated solidly favorable attitudes toward the international interventions in Lebanon, where the UN activities were limited in the traditional roles.<br>While the conventional wisdom of institutionalism revealed that the international community had transformed the beliefs of political elites in the newly democratized countries, this study attempted to demonstrate that the international community had been able to influence the consciousness of the ordinary citizens in the conflict zones. By discrediting the traditional institutionalism, this paper has revealed that the consciousness of sovereignty had been a social construct, through the analyses of the empirical data of the social surveys, and has related to the respondents'perceptions of legitimacy toward the policies and behaviors of the international community.

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  • International Relations

    International Relations 2009 (155), 155_76-91, 2009

    JAPAN ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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