par Pomarede, Julien ;Schjødt, Théa
Référence Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 9, 4, page (495-518)
Publication Publié, 2015-01
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : This article explores NATO’s support mission to the African Union’s peacekeeping operation in Darfur, Sudan between 2005 and 2007. NATO policies are commonly presented as functional responses to events, but how did a conflict on the African continent become the Atlantic Alliance’s business? In this essay, a poststructuralist practice-oriented approach is used to understand the way in which discursive practices progressively establish a policy option as ‘natural’ in a given situation. It is argued that the normalization of NATO’s support mission to the African Union in Darfur and the integration of this operation in NATO’s security identity were the result of complex and conflict-ridden social interactions between different discursive practices supported by different actors.