Which region? The politics of the UN Security Council P5 in international security crises

该项目旨在理论和实证调查联合国安理会（UNSC）的五个常任理事国-中国，法国，俄罗斯，英国和美国-如何在国际安全危机期间政治上构成地区，区域行动者和区域组织。我们主要问他们对区域作用的理解对治理危机的国际努力有什么影响。鉴于地区层面在管理安全危机的国际努力中继续发挥核心作用，我们将联合国安理会作为代表、讨论和应对国际安全危机的主要国际论坛和行为体。同时，由于五个常任理事国在决定联合国安理会立场及其辩论条件方面具有强大和制度上的影响，我们也认为它是塑造国际安全危机话语的关键外交政策参与者。因此，我们的分析基于：第一，五常作为外交政策行为体的表述和反应；第二，联合国安理会内部关于其代表权和（缺乏）回应的辩论和谈判。通过这种方式，我们将分析主要国际行动者的观点，以及他们之间的相似之处、不同之处和争论。为分析五常在国际安全危机中对地区/地区的政治构成，我们重点研究了近期的三个案例：阿富汗（2011年）、叙利亚/伊拉克/伊斯兰国（2011-）；乌克兰/克里米亚（2014-）危机。在所有这些危机中，该地区的名称和该地区的作用都受到了争议，因此它们代表了调查当代国际安全治理中协议/分歧对该地区/地区的性质和影响的测试案例。在此过程中，该项目将解决三个主要研究目标：1。评估国际政治对地区/地区的更大重视和合法性如何影响国际安全危机的治理？2. 调查主要国际行为体（五常、联合国安理会）在国际安全危机中如何代表本地区，这对他们对危机的看法有何影响？3. 评估主要国际行为体（五常、联合国安理会）对地区/地区观点及其在治理国际安全努力中的作用的争议程度？

This project aims to theorise and empirically investigate how the five Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) - China, France, Russia, UK and US - politically constitute regions, regional actors and regional organisations during international security crises. We primarily ask what impact does their understanding of the role of the regional have on international efforts at governing crises. Due to the central role the regional level continues to play in international efforts to manage security crises, we take the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as the key international forum and actor for representing, debating and responding to international security crisis. While, owing to the strong and institutionally enshrined influence that the Permanent Five (P5) have on determining the UNSC position and the terms of its debate, we also consider its as key foreign-policy actors shaping the international discourse on security crisis. We thus base our analysis on: one, the articulations and response of the P5 states as foreign-policy actors; and, two, the debate and negotiation within the UNSC on its representation and (lack of) response. In this way, we will analyse the perspectives of key international actors, but also the similarities, dissimilarities and contestation between them. To analyse the P5 members' political constitution of the region/regional during international security crisis, we focus on three recent case studies: Afghanistan (2011), Syria/Iraq/ISIS (2011-); Ukraine/Crimea (2014-) crises. In all of these crises, the designation of the region and the role for the regional was contested, and thus they represent test-cases for investigating the nature and the impact of agreement/disagreement on the region/regional in contemporary international security governance. In so doing, the project will address three primary research objectives: 1. To assess how the greater emphasis on and legitimacy attributed to the region/regional in international politics effects the governance of international security crises? 2. To investigate how key international actors (the P5, UNSC) are representing the region/regional in international security crises, and what effect is this having on their perspective on the crises? 3. To evaluate the degree to which perspectives on the region/regional, and its role in efforts at governing international security, are contested among key international actors (the P5, UNSC)?