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The Language of the UN Security Council

Security Council Considers Peace and Security in Africa / UN Photo/Manuel Elias

The Language of the UN Security Council

Principal Investigators:

  • Felix Bethke
  • Felix Haass
  • Evangeline Reynolds
  • Julia Strasheim

Project Summary:

This project explores how language and topics evolve within the United Nations Security Council to shed light on norm development and state influence in international organizations. Methodologically, the project relies on natural language processing of machine-readable, full-text data of UNSC resolutions.

United Nations Peacekeeping
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Felix Haass
Post-Doctoral Researcher

Publications

. Konjunktur des Verantwortungsbegriffs in den Resolutionen des VN- Sicherheitsrates, 1946-2015 . Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Sonderheft 52: 287-310, 2017.

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