Hizbullah's Moral Justification of Its Military Intervention in the Syrian Civil War

Kizilkaya, Zafer

doi:10.3751/71.2.12

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“…Since 1996, it has refrained from attacking civilians (Dionigi 2014: 157). In his assessments of the wars waged in Yemen, Syria and Iraq, Nasrallah also regularly commented on illegitimate and legitimate uses of force, often using similar argumentation to that found in just war theory (Kızılkaya 2017;Pfeifer 2017: 282-302). It is remarkable that Hezbollah sets itself clear limits on the use of violence and also regularly comments on infringements on human rights and international law as committed by other actors, including ISIS and Saudi Arabia, but also Western states.…”

Section: International Mis-recognition: Between Demonisation and Pragmatismmentioning

confidence: 97%

Recognition dynamics and Lebanese Hezbollah’s role in regional conflicts

Pfeifer¹

2021

Armed Non-State Actors and the Politics of Recognition

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Section: International Mis-recognition: Between Demonisation and Pragmatismmentioning

confidence: 97%

Recognition dynamics and Lebanese Hezbollah’s role in regional conflicts

Pfeifer¹

2021

Armed Non-State Actors and the Politics of Recognition

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Securitisation gaps: Towards ideational understandings of state weakness

Oskanian

2021

Eur. j. of int. secur.

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This article contributes a securitisation-based, interpretive approach to state weakness. The long-dominant positivist approaches to the phenomenon have been extensively criticised for a wide range of deficiencies. Responding to Lemay-Hébert's suggestion of a ‘Durkheimian’, ideational-interpretive approach as a possible alternative, I base my conceptualisation on Migdal's view of state weakness as emerging from a ‘state-in-society's’ contested ‘strategies of survival’. I argue that several recent developments in Securitisation Theory enable it to capture this contested ‘collective knowledge’ on the state: a move away from state-centrism, the development of a contextualised ‘sociological’ version, linkages made between securitisation and legitimacy, and the acknowledgment of ‘securitisations’ as a contested Bourdieusian field. I introduce the concept of ‘securitisation gaps’ – divergences in the security discourses and practices of state and society – as a concept aimed at capturing this contested role of the state, operationalised along two logics (reactive/substitutive) – depending on whether they emerge from securitisations of the state action or inaction – and three intensities (latent, manifest, and violent), depending on the extent to which they involve challenges to state authority. The approach is briefly illustrated through the changing securitisation gaps in the Republic of Lebanon during the 2019–20 ‘October Uprising’.

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EU policies concerning Lebanon and the bilateral cooperation on migration and security – new challenges calling for new institutional practices?

Seeberg

2018

Palgrave Commun

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Arguing that a security-stability nexus is a dominant theme in shaping the EU's foreign policy approach towards recent challenges in the Mediterranean, the article applies a historical institutionalist theoretical framework when analysing EU policies concerning Lebanon. The article discusses how the EU-Lebanese cooperation in the light of the unstable political environment in Lebanon is being impacted by the Syrian crisis and how this has been dealt with by EU institutions. It is argued that significant changes in the EU's policies and practices over recent years have taken place. Related to the EU-Lebanon Association Council decision of November 2016 launching the EU-Lebanon Compact, new institutional systems and practices are established regarding cooperation within areas where the EU and Lebanon share common interests. Finally, it is shown that the EU's institutional setup in connection with the Compact represents a pragmatic approach, which, dealing with a crisis situation, aims at making concrete and tangible practices possible.

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Hizbullah's Moral Justification of Its Military Intervention in the Syrian Civil War

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Recognition dynamics and Lebanese Hezbollah’s role in regional conflicts

Recognition dynamics and Lebanese Hezbollah’s role in regional conflicts

Securitisation gaps: Towards ideational understandings of state weakness

EU policies concerning Lebanon and the bilateral cooperation on migration and security – new challenges calling for new institutional practices?

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