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Deconstructing the Responsibility to Protect (Hardcover)
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Deconstructing the Responsibility to Protect (Hardcover)
Series: Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect
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This book interrogates the concept of the Responsibility to Protect
(R2P) as a normative construct and how the construction and
promotion of this norm may have contributed to a stagnation in
humanitarian action. This interrogation includes a particular focus
on the impact of R2P on prevailing attitudes and discourses
concerning humanitarian military intervention as well as the
(under)provision of same. The study seeks to bridge the proverbial
gap between theory and policy, specifically concerning our
collective understanding of contemporary dynamics of humanitarian
intervention and crisis. This objective is accomplished through the
application and critical reformulation of the norm life cycle model
and its three component stages (emergence, cascade, and
internalization) relative to the presumed norm of R2P. The book
advances the argument that R2P has only partially cascaded -
stagnating rather than fully diffusing after reaching the
‘tipping point’, and in the process leaving the life cycle of
the R2P norm in a state of dynamic equilibrium (e.g., a ‘steady
state’). Consequently, the chief implication of the dynamic of
stagnation within international society which the book seeks to
advance and support is the non-attainment of norm internalization.
Through close examination of the genesis and evolution of R2P, the
work contends that R2P actually poses a significant if not
fundamental challenge to the animating logic of the norm life cycle
model. Having reached the requisite tipping point through formal
endorsement by the UN over a decade ago, R2P has failed to manifest
itself in humanitarian intervention behavior. The key to
understanding why resides in deficiencies of the norm life cycle
model itself. By failing to provide a sufficient account of the
dynamics of norm pre-emergence (whereby ideas are transformed into
proto-norms) or to acknowledge the possibility norm stagnation
(whereby a norm fails to diffuse and become internalized), the norm
life-cycle model provides an underspecified mechanism for
understanding how and why an idea may in fact cross the threshold
of the ‘tipping point’—attaining the status of a norm in
international society in the process—but fail to penetrate and
influence policy discourses and processes. The study seeks to
bridge the proverbial gap between theory and policy, specifically
concerning our collective understanding of contemporary dynamics of
humanitarian intervention and crisis. This book will be of much
interest to students of the Responsibility to Protect, human
rights, conflict studies and international relations in general.
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