Core Considerations during a Coup Crisis A study on the drivers and factors that influenced the Dutch response to the 2012 Malian coup
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2024-10-03
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This study examined the most important drivers and factors influencing the Dutch response to the coup d’état in Mali in 2012. Open-source documents, as well as undisclosed documents from the diplomatic archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were analyzed to uncover state motivations, drivers, and other factors that had influenced the Dutch response. Using the method of the Grounded Theory Approach, the findings allude to a complex picture in which the Dutch response was influenced by, for example, ambiguity about national interests and potential individual agency. These findings are in sharp contrast to the unitary actor model that is dominant in the contemporary literature on international coup responses. Moreover, Dutch state motivations appear to center more on international cooperation and regional stability than on pure self-interest or pure normative considerations. These findings highlight the need to move beyond the unitary actor model and emphasize the potential value that the Foreign Policy Analysis literature can bring to contemporary research on how and why international actors respond to coups.
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Foreign Policy Analysis, Grounded Theory Approach, case study, Mali, coup d’état
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen