Title: Norm-takers or norm-makers? : the role of developing countries in the evolution of international norms of intervention and state sovereignty
Abstract: Since the end of the Cold War, the norms of sovereignty and non-intervention enshrined in the UN Charter have been subject to significant challenge by practices of intervention in civil conflicts and humanitarian crises involving massive human rights violations. Since 2001, the to has been considered by some to be an emerging norm in society which seeks to redefine the sovereignty of nation-states in terms of their responsibility to protect their populations from massive human rights abuses and to establish a responsibility of the community as a whole to intervene, including through military force in extreme cases, where states are unwilling or unable to fulfill their sovereign responsibilities. This thesis examines the role of developing countries in the emergence and evolution of the to and attempts to develop a theory to explain the ability of developing countries to influence the direction of in norms of sovereignty and intervention. It does so by conducting a plausibility probe of several hypotheses derived from Stephen Krasner's theory of international regime change and applying these to a case-study of debates around intervention and the to between 1999 and 2005.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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