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<Abstract>This paper will deal with the changing nature of the policy papers and released documents of the European Union regarding the Republic of Mali. Starting in 2013, the beginning of the European Union Military Training Mission in Mali, it is the scope to trace the changing argumentation of the legitimization of military presence in the country. The main argument will be that after the beginning of the military intervention and the defeat of the ASAWAD-State, security and migration where on the main agenda of the EU and led to a changing perception of Mali, which can be found in almost all policy papers.
The theory used will be constructivism by Wendt with a methodological framework of Critical Discourse Analysis by Fairclough (1995), using the three step approach ‘Describe-Interpret-Explain’ to visualize the consistent change within official released policy papers.</Abstract>
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<Keywords>Mali,European Union,Military Intervention,Policy Change,Africa,Security Theory,ASAWAD</Keywords>
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