Overview
- Studies the evolution of the responsibility to protect (R2P) as an international norm
- Discusses complex models of norm evolution and evaluation from various theoretical perspectives
- Investigates models of both linear and nonlinear norm evolution trajectories and models of norm contestation
Part of the book series: Contributions to International Relations (CIR)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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R2P—Institutions, Contestation, Discourse Spaces
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Keywords
About this book
This edited volume critically examines the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as a guiding norm in international politics. After NATO’s intervention in Libya, against the backdrop of civil wars in Syria and Yemen, and because of the cynical support for R2P by states such as Saudi Arabia, this norm is the subject of heavy criticism. It seems that the R2P is just political rhetoric, an instrument exploited by the powerful states. Hence, the R2P is being challenged. At the same time, however, institutional settings, normative discourses and contestation practices are making it more robust. New understandings of responsibility and the politics of protection are creating new normative spaces, patterns of legitimacy, and norm entrepreneurs, thereby reinforcing the R2P.
This book’s goals are to discuss the R2P’s roots, institutional framework, and evolution; to reveal its shortcomings and pitfalls; and to explore how it is exploited by certain states. Further, it elaborates on the R2P’s strength as a norm. Accordingly, the contributions presented here discuss various ways in which the R2P is being challenged or confirmed, or both at once. As the authors demonstrate, these developments concern not only diplomatic communication and political practices within international institutions, but also to normative discourses.
Furthermore, the book includes chapters that reevaluate the R2P from a normative standpoint, e.g. by proposing cosmopolitan standards as a guide for states’ external behavior. Other contributors reassess the historical evidence from U.N. negotiations on the R2P principle, and the productive or restrictive role of institutions. Discussing new issues relating to the R2P such as global and regional power shifts or foreign policy, as well as the phenomenon of authoritarian interventionism under the R2P umbrella, this book will appeal to all IR scholars and students interested in humanitarianism, norms, and power. By analyzing the status quo of the R2P, it enriches and broadens the debate on what the R2P currently is, and what it ought to be.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alexander Reichwein is Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Political Science at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. He is also a Co-Speaker of the Norms and Changes in Global Politics research section at the Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS).
Mischa Hansel is head of the International Cybersecurity (ICS) research group at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) at the University of Hamburg. He is also a Co-Speaker of the Norms and Changes in Global Politics research section at the Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking the Responsibility to Protect
Book Subtitle: Challenged or Confirmed?
Editors: Alexander Reichwein, Mischa Hansel
Series Title: Contributions to International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27412-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27411-4Published: 01 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27414-5Due: 02 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27412-1Published: 31 May 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-5061
Series E-ISSN: 2731-507X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 286
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Organization, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, International Relations Theory