ABSTRACT
The article uses so called ‘monuments’122 as a departure point for studying the discourse.123
It then engages in a positioning analysis as a means of re-constructing the discourse. A number of texts have been selected for this, with most of them being UN Security Council Resolutions and the meeting records for the session in which the respective Resolution was made. In addition the analysis relies on newspaper reports, and on interviews conducted in New York in March and April of 2014. The first part of this section focuses on Libya, the second on Syria.
