摘要：The article
offers a discussion of the two logics that govern the behavior of organizational
actors – the logic of appropriateness and the logic of expected consequences –
by transferring them into the realm of international relations, in particular,
in explaining the causes and reasoning behind third party military interventions
into the domestic affairs of other states. The article provides a theoretical
novelty of assessing the success of interventions not by durability of peace as
their main aim, but by actual fulfillment of
their interventionary goals and objective, which shall be considered when
discussing the pros and cons of the two logics. By analyzing the case of the
Russian interventions in Georgian starting from 1992 and ending with the recent
war in South Ossetia in 2008, the author argues that the likelihood of success
of interventions is higher when the two logics are merged and not separated from
each other in guiding the decision-makers in their actions.
关键词：Logic of
appropriateness, logic of expected consequences, third party interventions,
Georgia, Russia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia
