Parliamentary involvement, party ideology and majority-opposition bargaining: Belgian participation in multinational military operations

Fonck, Daan; Haesebrouck, Tim; Reykers, Yf

doi:10.1080/13523260.2018.1500819

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“…While international obligations might force a government to participate in a controversial operation, they can try to avoid possible negative domestic reverberations of a troop deployment decision by contributing forces that do not face a high risk of getting involved in combat (Biehl et al, 2013). This is also in line with scholarly literature on caveats, which expects parliamentary involvement in troop deployment decisions to result in restrictions on the mandate of the deployed forces (Auerswald and Saideman, 2014;Fonck et al, 2019). 8…”

Section: Divisiveness Of the Deployment Decisionsupporting

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When does politics stop at the water’s edge? A QCA of parliamentary consensus on military deployment decisions

Haesebrouck

Immerseel

2020

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Why do some military deployment decisions lead to high levels of political contestation, whereas others do not? Or, put differently, when does parliamentary consensus on the use of force abroad exist? In this article, we aim to answer this question by focusing on the varying levels of consensus in national parliaments when taking military deployment decisions. We do so by examining conditions that were derived from research on the domestic-level determinants of the use of force, parliamentary voting, and opposition behaviour. These conditions were included in an integrated theoretical framework, which we tested with fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis. The results of our analysis show that the international legal status and the objectives of the military operation are of crucial importance for explaining the pattern of political contestation. However, domestic variables need to be taken into account as well to fully explain the level of political contestation of military deployment decisions.

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Section: Divisiveness Of the Deployment Decisionsupporting

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When does politics stop at the water’s edge? A QCA of parliamentary consensus on military deployment decisions

Haesebrouck

Immerseel

2020

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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“…Recent studies have explored the partisan politics behind the variation in participation in (and approval of) military interventions (Fonck et al, 2019;Mello, 2014;Raunio & Wagner, 2017;Wagner, Herranz-Surralles, Kaarbo, & Ostermann, 2017). explain, in the post-Cold War period, the use of military has become associated less with conflict, and more with spread of human rights and "wars of choice."…”

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“…Curiously, little conceptual link has been done between the scholarship studying extreme parties' connections with (and interest in) Russia on one hand, and the increasing academic interest in the study of the role of political parties in foreign policy on the other hand. The scholarship on the role of parties in foreign policy has focused on the role of ideology, and has seen a true explosion of the scholarship in recent years (Blarel & van Willigen, 2017;Fonck, Haesebrouck, & Reykers, 2019;Herbel, 2017;Kaarbo & Kenealy, 2017;Mello, 2012Mello, , 2014Raunio & Wagner, 2017;Wagner, Herranz-Surrallés, Kaarbo, & Ostermann, 2018). However, understanding European parties' past and present view on Russia is crucial for sketching prospects for future cooperation (or confrontation) with Russia.…”

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Partisan views of Russia: Analyzing European party electoral manifestos since 1991

Onderčo

2019

Contemporary Security Policy

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The connection between Russia and European political parties has been in the scholarly and popular spotlight recently. While scholars focus on the connection between the far right (and populist) parties and Russia, they have all but ignored the rapidly increasing literature on the role of political parties in foreign policy. This article provides an attempt to bridge these literatures. After analyzing a corpus of party manifestos, the results suggest that there is temporal variation in how European parties have seen Russia since the end of the Cold War. European parties tended to be mostly positive in their views of Russia prior to 2015. Geography and ideology were much less important as a factor in explaining party positions. While some ideological groups share attitudes across different borders, the overall influence of ideology on attitudes toward Russia is minimal.

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“…The article shows how alliance politics and domestic constraints interact with government ideology in unexpected ways. Fonck, Haesebrouck, and Reykers (2019) seek to understand when the restrictions discussed by the first two conceptual articles are imposed. Their study uses the case of Belgium to further assess the claims of the existing literature about the impact of ideology and develops some nuance about the conditions under which opposition parties can influence the restrictions imposed upon contingents joining multilateral efforts.…”

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The politics of multinational military operations

Mello

Saideman

2018

Contemporary Security Policy

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Today, few countries fight alone; most fight as allies or partners in multilateral campaigns. The end of the Cold War opened a window of opportunity for multinational military operations (MMOs). These have seen varying degrees of participation, enthusiasm, and success. This special forum is devoted to the politics of multilateral warfare including their formation, maintenance, and durability. The introduction sketches past research and derives some key questions of continuing relevance. The contributions shed light on the domestic and international politics of MMOs, focusing on the implementation of national restrictions and their repercussions for MMOs, party politics of military intervention, the conditions under which states decide to defect from military operations, and the role of junior partners in MMOs. In sum, this forum offers a fresh look at the politics of MMOs, including conceptual contributions to the study of national restrictions, domestic constraints, and coalition warfare.One country may support another's cause, but will never take it so seriously as it takes its own. A moderately-sized force will be sent to its help; but if things go wrong the operation is pretty well written off, and one tries to withdraw at the smallest possible cost. (Von Clausewitz, 1984 [1832

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Parliamentary involvement, party ideology and majority-opposition bargaining: Belgian participation in multinational military operations

Cited by 18 publications

References 20 publications

When does politics stop at the water’s edge? A QCA of parliamentary consensus on military deployment decisions

When does politics stop at the water’s edge? A QCA of parliamentary consensus on military deployment decisions

Partisan views of Russia: Analyzing European party electoral manifestos since 1991

The politics of multinational military operations

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