Reintegrative shaming in international relations: NATO’s military intervention in Libya

The existing scholarship in international relations (IR) has tended to underrate the conceptual implications of different types of shaming. This article advances a new terminology of shaming. Drawing from social and criminal psychology, the article distinguishes the social distancing effects of sham...

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Published in:Journal of international relations and development 2022-06, Vol.25 (2), p.497-522
Main Author: Koschut, Simon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Area Studies
Armed forces
Community
Conflict resolution
Consciousness
Criminal psychology
Development Studies
International Relations
Military intervention
Original Article
Political Science and International Relations
Political Science and International Studies
Psychology
Social distancing
Social order
Social psychology
Terminology
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Summary:The existing scholarship in international relations (IR) has tended to underrate the conceptual implications of different types of shaming. This article advances a new terminology of shaming. Drawing from social and criminal psychology, the article distinguishes the social distancing effects of shaming that is disintegrative from the community-building effects of shaming that is reintegrative. This is important because it offers additional ways of seeing how it may be equally important to shed light on the multifaceted role and multiple effects of shaming in maintaining social order in world politics. The main argument raised here is that reintegrative shaming – shaming, which is followed by efforts to reintegrate the offender back into the community – is central to peaceful conflict resolution in a security community. This argument is empirically illustrated by the case of NATO’s military intervention in Libya.
ISSN:1408-6980
1581-1980
DOI:10.1057/s41268-021-00249-5