International interventions in Côte d'Ivoire: in search of a point of leverage
Mike McGovern (2008)
The Ivorian conflict may have attracted more international attention than any other African conflict of recent decades, yet the results of that interest have been mitigated at best. Mike McGovern argues that the threat of international prosecution or the use of UN sanctions have achieved a certain success in limiting the damage of the war, but attempts to engineer a political solution via a series of peace accords and coercive Security Council resolutions have largely failed. It is not yet clear if the Ouagadougou Peace Agreement will be implemented in a meaningful way. This article gives a brief overview of the conflict and an inventory of the different international interventions so far utilized, and ends by reviewing what has worked or not, and why.
