Advocacy Networks and the Responsibility to Protect: The Politics of Norm Circulation

This book explores new advocacy strategies and the interconnectedness of various R2P proponents, highlighting the conscious politics of its advocates in complex global networks. It emphasizes the agency of R2P champions and examines how they maintain its worldwide relevance, particularly in light of existing crises.

Format: Hardback
Length: 196 pages
Publication date: 03 February 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book makes a significant contribution to ongoing discussions on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) by presenting innovative advocacy strategies and highlighting the interconnectedness of various R2P proponents. In 2021, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a new resolution on R2P, reaffirming its commitment from the 2005 World Summit Outcome and placing R2P on the annual agenda. For many R2P advocates, this resolution represented a significant milestone in the global recognition of the Responsibility to Protect and the growing support among UN members to protect individuals from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. However, the ongoing crises in Myanmar, Venezuela, Belarus, Syria, and many other regions have exposed the widening gap between the discourse and practice of R2P.

This book aims to explore what sustains the concept of R2P despite its undeniable challenges. Contrary to existing studies that view the endorsement or contestation of R2P as intertwined processes of norm evolution, this book argues that the status of R2P has been achieved through the conscious politics of its advocates operating within complex global networks. Therefore, the book emphasizes the agency of R2P champions and examines who keeps the idea resonating and how they manage to preserve its worldwide relevance. Instead of proposing a new advocacy model, the book aims to pinpoint the politics of R2P's circulation, the importance of individual R2P champions, and their interconnectedness through innovative forms of cooperation within complex networks.

This book will be of immense interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in the fields of R2P, diplomacy, human rights.

Weight: 540g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032334066