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Regional sanctions against Burundi: the regime's argumentative self-entrapment
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Abstract This paper examines the impact of regional sanctions on the trajectory of the Burundian regime following the 1996 coup. Despite the country's socioeconomic and geopolitical vulnerability, the Buyoya government initially withstood the pressure from sanctions. Through a vocal campaign against these me... mehr
This paper examines the impact of regional sanctions on the trajectory of the Burundian regime following the 1996 coup. Despite the country's socioeconomic and geopolitical vulnerability, the Buyoya government initially withstood the pressure from sanctions. Through a vocal campaign against these measures, the new government mitigated the embargo's economic consequences and partially re-established its international reputation. Paradoxically, this campaign planted the seed for long-term comprehensive political concessions. While previous literature has attributed the embargo's success to its economic impact, the government actually responded to the sanction senders' key demand to engage in unconditional, inclusive peace talks once the economy had already started to recover. Based on a novel framework for studying the signalling dimension of sanctions, I show how the regime's anti-sanctions campaign, with its emphasis on the government's willingness to engage in peace talks, backfired, with Buyoya forced to negotiate after having become entrapped in his own rhetoric.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen; wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit; innere Sicherheit; Burundi; Innenpolitik; politischer Konflikt; politische Sanktion; wirtschaftliche Sanktion; Embargo; nationale Entwicklung; politische Folgen; westliche Welt; Friedensprozess
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 169-191
Zeitschriftentitel
The Journal of Modern African Studies, 53 (2015) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X15000324
ISSN
1469-7777
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung
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