Regional Organizations and Responsibility to Protect: Normative Reframing or Normative Change?

Autor: Barqueiro, Carla, Seaman, Kate, Towey, Katherine Teresa
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Internationale Beziehungen
Politikwissenschaft
International relations
Political science
Responsibility to Protect
R2P
Regionalorganisation
Peace and Conflict Research
International Conflicts
Security Policy
International Relations
International Politics
Foreign Affairs
Development Policy
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Sicherheitspolitik
internationale Beziehungen
Entwicklungspolitik
Afrikanische Union
soziale Norm
Menschenrechte
politische Intervention
politisches Bündnis
militärischer Konflikt
internationale Politik
Arabische Liga
EU
Normsetzung
Schutzmacht
internationale Organisation
Konfliktbewältigung
humanitäre Intervention
militärische Intervention
Normgeltung
internationale Beziehungen
international relations
protecting power
social norm
adherence to norms
setting of norms
Arab League
African Union
humanitarian intervention
political intervention
human rights
military conflict
international organization
conflict mediation
military intervention
international politics
political alliance
Zdroj: Politics and Governance, 4, 3, 37-49, Supranational Institutions and Governance in an Era of Uncertain Norms
Druh dokumentu: journal article<br />Zeitschriftenartikel
ISSN: 2183-2463
DOI: 10.17645/pag.v4i3.642
Popis: The adoption of the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) by all United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) member states in 2005, and its reaffirmation in dozens of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, indicate that there is a growing consensus around the world that egregious human rights violations necessitate a cooperative and decisive international response. But just as the political debates raged surrounding the precise articulation of RtoP between 2001 and 2005, so too goes the contemporary debate surrounding the implementation of RtoP. Regional divergences in RtoP implementation, in particular, have been noted by many scholars, as regional organizations implement those elements of RtoP that best suit their policy goals. This paper will apply recent scholarship on normlifecycles, specifically on “norm localization” to the operationalization of RtoP by regional organizations. We seek to explore regional divergences on RtoP implementation between the European Union (EU), League of Arab States (LAS), and the African Union (AU) on Libya and Syria. From this assessment, three main arguments will be put forward: (1) regional organizations remain politicized, reframing RtoP in divergent ways that dilute the strength of the norm, (2) politicization of the RtoP discourse constrains regional norm localization processes, (3) politicization and reframing of RtoP inhibit regional normative change and limit the potential for timely and decisive responses to protect civilians. (auhtor's abstract)
Databáze: SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository
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