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'Wolf Warriors' in the UN Security Council? Investigating power shifts through blaming.
- Source :
- Global Policy; May2024 Supplement 1, Vol. 15, p38-50, 13p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- What shifts in the extent and patterns of China's blaming are observable at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)? This article employs automated content analysis to measure the frequency of blaming by China and other permanent UNSC member states based on a dataset of all speeches (19,623 overall) in the UNSC from January 1995 to May 2022. Furthermore, it uses qualitative text analysis and network analysis to examine the targets of blaming in three different case studies of UN security governance—UN peacekeeping in former Yugoslavia (1998–2008), the UN sanctions regime against North Korea (2007–2017) and the broader peace and security discourse at the UNSC (2008–2018). The study conceptualizes Chinese blaming as a previously unexamined discursive strategy of compulsory power with potential long‐term effects on shifts in productive power. However, the results indicate the absence of blaming‐related shifts in the discursive space of the UNSC: China's rhetoric in the UNSC, compared with other UNSC members, has remained restrained over time. Variance in blaming behaviour between actors and across bilateral and multilateral settings seems to depend on strategic considerations that assess how to exert power most effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- INTERNATIONAL sanctions
UNITED Nations peacekeeping forces
CONTENT analysis
BLAME
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17585880
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Global Policy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177419212
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13372