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Fabrissin, Maylis (2021)

Problems, policies and politics: A multiple-stream approach to the French and British intervention in Libya (2011)

Master thesis | Public Administration (MSc)

This thesis focuses on the factors that led to the military intervention of France and the United Kingdom in Libya in 2011. Both actors were at the forefront of discussions regarding how the international community should answer to the threat to civilians posed by the Gaddafi regime, and remained prominently engaged throughout the process leading to the UN-mandated and NATO-led intervention. This research applies the multiple-stream framework as developed by John Kingdon (1984), to identify factors within the problem, policy and political streams defined by the theory. This allowed for several factors and actors crucial to the process to be identified, and for a comparison between the cases of France and the United Kingdom to be established. The multiple-stream framework analysis offers valuable insights into the processes at different levels of analysis, although the qualitative nature of this research hinders possibilities for generalizability.

Multiple-stream framework

John Kingdon

military intervention

Libya

France

United Kingdom

Author

Fabrissin, Maylis

Faculty

Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

Specialisation

International and European Governance

Supervisors

Karakasis, V.P.

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en