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Regional Organizations and Responsibility to Protect: Normative Reframing or Normative Change?
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Abstract 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... view more
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)... view less
Keywords
EU; 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
Classification
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Free Keywords
Responsibility to Protect; R2P; Regionalorganisation
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 37-49
Journal
Politics and Governance, 4 (2016) 3
Issue topic
Supranational Institutions and Governance in an Era of Uncertain Norms
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution