Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
Regional sanctions against Burundi: the regime's argumentative self-entrapment
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.
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1469-7777
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Seite(n): 169-191
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Bibliographic citation
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The Journal of Modern African Studies, 53(2)
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Politikwissenschaft
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen
wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit
innere Sicherheit
Burundi
Innenpolitik
politischer Konflikt
politische Sanktion
wirtschaftliche Sanktion
Embargo
nationale Entwicklung
politische Folgen
westliche Welt
Friedensprozess
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Grauvogel, Julia
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Vereinigtes Königreich
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2015
- DOI
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-437294
- Rights
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST
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- Zeitschriftenartikel
Associated
- Grauvogel, Julia
Time of origin
- 2015
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