CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Burai, Erna |
|---|---|
| Title | Responsibilities to Protect: Accountability and Responsiveness in Protecting Populations from Atrocity Crimes |
| Summary | The Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) is a global framework of protecting populations from atrocity crimes that remains contested in its implementation. Some say this is due to power politics, others that it is because of the contested application of any norm. I argue in this thesis that the inconsistency of RtoP’s application is, in fact, consistent. It complies with the logic of two different models of protection, which are internally coherent but incompatible with each other. The thesis asks why there is such a pattern and why it is so resilient. In response, it offers two arguments, one historical, the other conceptual. Historically, it traces the two models of indirect and direct protection to their origins. Conceptually, it shows that they constitute not only different relationships of responsibility, but also different objects of protection and different responsibility-bearers. Hence, indirect and direct protection constitutes two different worlds, and incompatible templates for protective action. The thesis offers a novel account of RtoP’s internal dynamics and a framework to analyze post-Cold War intervention debates, as well as the conceptual framework of ‘embedded norm entrepreneurship’ as a process of norm development. |
| Supervisor | Astrov, Alexander |
| Department | International Relations PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/burai_erna.pdf |
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