Covert action failure and fiasco construction: William Hague's 2011 Libyan venture
Covert action failure and fiasco construction: William Hague's 2011 Libyan venture
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秘密行动的失败和建设的惨败：威廉·黑格 2011 年在利比亚的冒险
DOI：
10.1080/13501763.2017.1291709
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Cormac R
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作者：
Cormac R
2011年，时任英国外交大臣的威廉·黑格授权特种部队进入利比亚，与利比亚内战中反对穆阿迈尔·卡扎菲的反对派取得联系。然而，其成员被叛军拘留并被驱逐出境。本文将关于公共政策失败的文献与关于将秘密行动作为外交政策工具的文献进行对话。它问：当记者和政界人士认为这是黑格方面的重大判断错误时，为什么这没有发展成一场全面的政策惨败？利用对这一事件的当代报道的叙事分析，我们认为，拥有因操作保密而产生的信息不对称优势的政府能够在框架竞争过程中赢得叙事之战。本文反思了信息不对称研究如何促进最近重新兴起的对外交政策失败的研究。
In 2011 William Hague, then British Foreign Secretary, authorized Special Forces to enter Libya and contact rebels opposed to Muammar Gaddafi in the unfolding civil war. However, its members were detained by the rebels and ejected from the country. This article puts the literature on public policy failures into dialogue with that on covert action as a tool of foreign policy. It asks: why did this not develop into a fully fledged policy fiasco when journalists and politicians judged it to have been a major error of judgement on Hague’s part? Using narrative analysis of the contemporary reporting of this incident, we argue that the government – possessing the advantage of information asymmetry accruing from operational secrecy – was able to win the battle of narratives in a frame contestation process. The article reflects on how the study of information asymmetry can enhance the recently revivified research into foreign policy failures.