Wagner Group Flows: A Two‐Fold Challenge to Liberal Intervention and Liberal Order
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Resumo: | Focusing on Wagner Group (WG) forces, liberal interveners too readily dismiss the scope of WG’s Africa engagements, including economic and political “flows” that, in combination, challenge liberal interveners’ taken-for-granted access in several states on the African continent. Operationalising the notion of “flows,” we present an analysis that foregrounds both the scope of WG’s Africa engagements and the challenges. We portray WG as a broad enterprise by attending to military, economic, and political flows. This broadening is relevant to how WG is understood to challenge liberal interveners. Besides country-specific challenges to liberal interveners’ access (notably in states where they have been asked to depart or co-exist with WG), a broader reading of WG’s Africa presence also foregrounds challenges at a different level, namely to liberal interveners’ assumptions about the inevitable attractiveness of the liberal international order. A liberal order that Russia has utilised WG’s Africa presence to contest. As such, challenges at the level of liberal order go beyond WG’s Africa presence and must, therefore, be viewed alongside other challenges to liberal intervention and order, from the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. If liberal interveners’ missteps and historicity, as well as the scope of WG’s Africa engagements, remain underappreciated, then various challenges specific to the WG, but also broader challenges to liberal interveners’ assumptions about liberal order as self-evidently attractive, are too readily dismissed. Liberal actors’ dismissiveness may invite misguided responses and unintentionally become an enabling factor for WG’s influence in Africa. |
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Wagner Group Flows: A Two‐Fold Challenge to Liberal Intervention and Liberal OrderAfrica; flows; liberal intervention; liberal order; Wagner GroupFocusing on Wagner Group (WG) forces, liberal interveners too readily dismiss the scope of WG’s Africa engagements, including economic and political “flows” that, in combination, challenge liberal interveners’ taken-for-granted access in several states on the African continent. Operationalising the notion of “flows,” we present an analysis that foregrounds both the scope of WG’s Africa engagements and the challenges. We portray WG as a broad enterprise by attending to military, economic, and political flows. This broadening is relevant to how WG is understood to challenge liberal interveners. Besides country-specific challenges to liberal interveners’ access (notably in states where they have been asked to depart or co-exist with WG), a broader reading of WG’s Africa presence also foregrounds challenges at a different level, namely to liberal interveners’ assumptions about the inevitable attractiveness of the liberal international order. A liberal order that Russia has utilised WG’s Africa presence to contest. As such, challenges at the level of liberal order go beyond WG’s Africa presence and must, therefore, be viewed alongside other challenges to liberal intervention and order, from the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. If liberal interveners’ missteps and historicity, as well as the scope of WG’s Africa engagements, remain underappreciated, then various challenges specific to the WG, but also broader challenges to liberal interveners’ assumptions about liberal order as self-evidently attractive, are too readily dismissed. Liberal actors’ dismissiveness may invite misguided responses and unintentionally become an enabling factor for WG’s influence in Africa.Cogitatio Press2024-02-14info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.17645/pag.7367https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.7367Politics and Governance; Vol 12 (2024): From Kabul to Kyiv: The Crisis of Liberal Interventionism and the Return of War2183-246310.17645/pag.i375reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/7367https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/7367/3555Copyright (c) 2024 Katja Lindskov Jacobsen, Karen Philippa Larseninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessJacobsen, Katja LindskovLarsen, Karen Philippa2024-02-15T18:07:09Zoai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/7367Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T02:38:23.210774Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Wagner Group Flows: A Two‐Fold Challenge to Liberal Intervention and Liberal Order |
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Wagner Group Flows: A Two‐Fold Challenge to Liberal Intervention and Liberal Order |
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Wagner Group Flows: A Two‐Fold Challenge to Liberal Intervention and Liberal Order Jacobsen, Katja Lindskov Africa; flows; liberal intervention; liberal order; Wagner Group |
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Wagner Group Flows: A Two‐Fold Challenge to Liberal Intervention and Liberal Order |
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Wagner Group Flows: A Two‐Fold Challenge to Liberal Intervention and Liberal Order |
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Wagner Group Flows: A Two‐Fold Challenge to Liberal Intervention and Liberal Order |
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Wagner Group Flows: A Two‐Fold Challenge to Liberal Intervention and Liberal Order |
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Wagner Group Flows: A Two‐Fold Challenge to Liberal Intervention and Liberal Order |
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Jacobsen, Katja Lindskov |
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Jacobsen, Katja Lindskov Larsen, Karen Philippa |
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Larsen, Karen Philippa |
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Jacobsen, Katja Lindskov Larsen, Karen Philippa |
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Africa; flows; liberal intervention; liberal order; Wagner Group |
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Africa; flows; liberal intervention; liberal order; Wagner Group |
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Focusing on Wagner Group (WG) forces, liberal interveners too readily dismiss the scope of WG’s Africa engagements, including economic and political “flows” that, in combination, challenge liberal interveners’ taken-for-granted access in several states on the African continent. Operationalising the notion of “flows,” we present an analysis that foregrounds both the scope of WG’s Africa engagements and the challenges. We portray WG as a broad enterprise by attending to military, economic, and political flows. This broadening is relevant to how WG is understood to challenge liberal interveners. Besides country-specific challenges to liberal interveners’ access (notably in states where they have been asked to depart or co-exist with WG), a broader reading of WG’s Africa presence also foregrounds challenges at a different level, namely to liberal interveners’ assumptions about the inevitable attractiveness of the liberal international order. A liberal order that Russia has utilised WG’s Africa presence to contest. As such, challenges at the level of liberal order go beyond WG’s Africa presence and must, therefore, be viewed alongside other challenges to liberal intervention and order, from the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. If liberal interveners’ missteps and historicity, as well as the scope of WG’s Africa engagements, remain underappreciated, then various challenges specific to the WG, but also broader challenges to liberal interveners’ assumptions about liberal order as self-evidently attractive, are too readily dismissed. Liberal actors’ dismissiveness may invite misguided responses and unintentionally become an enabling factor for WG’s influence in Africa. |
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