CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Kline, Lara Alison |
|---|---|
| Title | Responsibility to Protect: A developing norm or normative failure? |
| Summary | ‘Responsibility to Protect’, the result of international intervention failures, strewn with battles over sovereignty, mixed with moral obligations; the idea that first states and then the international community are responsible for the protection of people against genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity. R2P’s rhetorical emergence garnered normative acceptance internationally, yet its ability to change actual behavior has been questioned. Thereby, this master thesis look into whether the development of new international rules and norms have an impact on the behavior of the international community in responding to genocides or potential genocides. Through an examination of the evolution of international rules and norms, we will test whether the concepts of R2P and genocide can in fact be seen as emerging norms, and whether they have an actual impact on the behavior of states in actually producing interventions. Through the analysis it is found that while rhetorically the norms of R2P and genocide prevention have almost fully evolved through the ‘norm life cycle’ the action which should go along with these norms has not been fulfilled. There has been a breakdown between normative rhetoric and normative action which needs to be reconciled through collective responsibilities of states, in order to realistically prevent genocide. |
| Supervisor | Granger, Marie-Pierre |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/kline_lara.pdf |
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