Severity, salience, and selectivity: understanding the varying responses to regional crises by Brazil and South Africa

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Autor(a) principal: Mesquita, R.
Data de Publicação: 2022
Outros Autores: Seabra, P.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/26674
Resumo: Political, military and humanitarian crises endanger regional order. But even though regional powers are expected to act as stabilizers in these cases, their responses to dire demands vary in intensity and loci. Reactions go from zealous engagement to prolonged indifference and reluctance, often leaning on global multilateral institutions as well as regional or ad hoc mechanisms. This study explores the variation in the provision of stability by regional powers via a mixed-methods approach. By contrasting the intensity of regional crises with issue salience at the UN General Assembly, we select crises that drew varying attention from regional powers, despite similar severity. Focusing on Brazil and South Africa as potential regional stabilizers, we compare responses to regional crises that displayed high (Haiti and Somalia) and low (Colombia and Congo-Brazzaville) salience. We find that domestic support, concerns with status and potential competition with other stabilizers tend to play a large part in calibrating regional power responses.
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title Severity, salience, and selectivity: understanding the varying responses to regional crises by Brazil and South Africa
spellingShingle Severity, salience, and selectivity: understanding the varying responses to regional crises by Brazil and South Africa
Mesquita, R.
Regional powers
United Nations General Assembly
Crises
Brazil
South Africa
title_short Severity, salience, and selectivity: understanding the varying responses to regional crises by Brazil and South Africa
title_full Severity, salience, and selectivity: understanding the varying responses to regional crises by Brazil and South Africa
title_fullStr Severity, salience, and selectivity: understanding the varying responses to regional crises by Brazil and South Africa
title_full_unstemmed Severity, salience, and selectivity: understanding the varying responses to regional crises by Brazil and South Africa
title_sort Severity, salience, and selectivity: understanding the varying responses to regional crises by Brazil and South Africa
author Mesquita, R.
author_facet Mesquita, R.
Seabra, P.
author_role author
author2 Seabra, P.
author2_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Mesquita, R.
Seabra, P.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Regional powers
United Nations General Assembly
Crises
Brazil
South Africa
topic Regional powers
United Nations General Assembly
Crises
Brazil
South Africa
description Political, military and humanitarian crises endanger regional order. But even though regional powers are expected to act as stabilizers in these cases, their responses to dire demands vary in intensity and loci. Reactions go from zealous engagement to prolonged indifference and reluctance, often leaning on global multilateral institutions as well as regional or ad hoc mechanisms. This study explores the variation in the provision of stability by regional powers via a mixed-methods approach. By contrasting the intensity of regional crises with issue salience at the UN General Assembly, we select crises that drew varying attention from regional powers, despite similar severity. Focusing on Brazil and South Africa as potential regional stabilizers, we compare responses to regional crises that displayed high (Haiti and Somalia) and low (Colombia and Congo-Brazzaville) salience. We find that domestic support, concerns with status and potential competition with other stabilizers tend to play a large part in calibrating regional power responses.
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