2012
DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2012.696387
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Qui s'excuse s'accuse… An Analysis of French Justifications for Intervening in Côte d'Ivoire

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“…We also included three nonneighboring countries of origin. France is the former colonizer and continues to have strong-and often controversial-influence in Côte d'Ivoire (Simonen 2012). Lebanon was included because there is a small, yet economically important, Lebanese community in Côte d'Ivoire dating back to the 1920s.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We also included three nonneighboring countries of origin. France is the former colonizer and continues to have strong-and often controversial-influence in Côte d'Ivoire (Simonen 2012). Lebanon was included because there is a small, yet economically important, Lebanese community in Côte d'Ivoire dating back to the 1920s.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For four months, tensions between the two camps degenerated into armed fighting between the national Security and Defence Forces (FDS) loyal to Laurent Gbagbo and the Republican Forces of Côte d'Ivoire (FRCI), composed of former 'Forces Nouvelles' rebels, 3 who supported his rival Alassane Ouattara (Zounmenou and Lamin, 2011). The arrest of Laurent Gbagbo and his wife Simone Gbagbo in April 2011, by pro-Ouattara forces that were con-troversially assisted by UN peacekeepers and French forces (Yebouet, 2011), marked the end of the conflict (Simonen, 2012).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…However, due to the limited space available in this article, the discussion in this article is limited to China and Russia as they are often the ones that are said to be forming an anti-Western opposition bloc in the UNSC against Western-led calls for the use of the R2P doctrine. For more information on the position of France vis-à-vis R2P, see Bellamy and Williams (2011), Davidson (2013), andSimonen (2012).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%