The Responsibility to Protect: The History of a Growing Norm

Abomo, Paul Tang

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“…During the entire UN discussion on this matter, countries such as the United States, France, Germany, Colombia, Lebanon, and Rwanda invoked the R2P (Responsibility to Protect) principle, while other states, including Russia and China, voiced concerns over the actions of the Libyan government [Tang Abomo 2019].…”

Section: Libya: Antagonistic Other and Discursive Hegemonymentioning

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In search of antagonistic other. Troubling threats and non-intervention

Neklyudov

2023

Mezhdunarodnye protsessy

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This research underscores the complexities of constructing hegemonic narratives in the face of geopolitical dynamics surrounding military crises. Departing from conventional analyses focused on securitization theory, strategic narratives, or David Campbell’s framework of identity construction in response to external perils, this study draws upon the concept of hegemonic practices as elucidated by Ernest Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Through an exploration of how political actors employ discursive strategies to construct hegemony, the research centers on the Western political elites’ efforts to establish political hegemony to rationalize military intervention in the Middle East. Utilizing the notion of the antagonistic Other, which posits two mutually constitutive Others where one is perceived as the source of violence against the other, representing civilians, this paper examines the political discourse surrounding two concurrent events in the Middle East: the conflicts in Syria and Libya. The analysis reveals that while the Western political class constructed a political hegemony around Libya by portraying Muammar Gaddafi and the victimized civilians as opposing Others, a similar narrative failed to materialize for Syria: Western powers encountered expected challenges in articulating a clear antagonistic Other, on account of the position of Russia and other countries representing non-Western political culture. Throughout the period of 2011– 2014, Bashar al-Assad, despite his role as the Syrian president, was not consistently portrayed as the source of antagonism towards civilians.

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Section: Libya: Antagonistic Other and Discursive Hegemonymentioning

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In search of antagonistic other. Troubling threats and non-intervention

Neklyudov

2023

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Bound to Interpret: Russia, NATO, and the Military-Political Crises in the Post-Cold War Order

Неклюдов

2020

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The study of Russia’s foreign policy poses something of a paradox. On the one hand, Russia’s actions are viewed as aimed at revising the existing rules-based order built by the end of the Cold War. On the other hand, on numerous occasions, one pinpoints that Russia has devised a language similar to the Western nations to justify its foreign policy. I call the phenomenon that explains this paradox the game of interpretation. The article illustrates how Russia is engaged in the game of interpretation with the West in the post-Cold War order by Russia’s appliance to the norm of humanitarian interventions. By analyzing the Russian discourse during the Russo-Georgian War (2008), I demonstrate how the Russian foreign policy leadership reproduces similar narrative patterns used by the West during the Kosovo War (1999). Exemplifying the game of interpretation by humanitarian interventionism is not accidental. Humanitarian interventionism is studied in the literature as being characteristic of the Western ‘ethical foreign policy’ originated by the end of the Cold War, with Russia being depicted as either skeptical or as an unequivocal opponent of such an approach in world politics. Methodologically, the work builds on quantitative and qualitative analysis of selected texts compiled from the archives of NATO and the US State Department, as well as the website “Kremlin.ru” and the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

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The Responsibility to Protect: The History of a Growing Norm

Cited by 2 publications

References 30 publications

In search of antagonistic other. Troubling threats and non-intervention

In search of antagonistic other. Troubling threats and non-intervention

Bound to Interpret: Russia, NATO, and the Military-Political Crises in the Post-Cold War Order

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