Research Catalog

Title

Regional approaches to the responsibility to protect : lessons from Europe and West Africa / Jochem Rietveld.

Author

Rietveld, Jochem

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

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Description

x, 176 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This book studies regional approaches to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in Europe and West Africa. The work assesses how and to what extent the European Union (EU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have internalised the norm, both generally, in institutions, policies, and programs and specifically, in crisis situations of R2P-concern, such as the 2011 Libyan crisis and 2012 Malian crisis. It provides a historical analysis of how the two regional organisations have dealt with questions of sovereignty, security, and human rights since their founding, as well as an analysis of some of the European and West African roots of the R2P norm. This reflects the notion that global norms are often informed by local and regional practices and that this needs to be recognised in order to fully understand regional responses to alleged global norms. The book uses process tracing to trace the regional internalisation of R2P and has benefited from qualitative research interviews with EU- and ECOWAS-stakeholders. One of the key findings is that ECOWAS and West Africa have delivered a key contribution to the norm construction of R2P, a finding insufficiently recognised in the current literature. This book will be of much interest to students of the Responsibility to Protect, EU human rights and foreign policy, African politics, security studies and International Relations in general"--

Series Statement

Global politics and the responsibility to protect

Subject

• Economic Community of West African States
• Economic Community of West African States
• Responsibility to protect (International law) > European Union countries
• Responsibility to protect (International law) > Africa, West
• Human rights > European Union countries
• Human rights > Africa, West
• Human rights
• Responsibility to protect (International law)
• European Union countries
• West Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

An analytical framework for assessing norms, regional organisations, and the responsibility to protect -- Contextual analysis : regional approaches to security, sovereignty, and human rights -- The EU and R2P : from public endorsements to implementation? -- ECOWAS and R2P : West African inspirations of a global norm.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-8580

ISBN

• 9781032137636
• 1032137630

LCCN

2022043922

OCLC

1345512778

Author

Rietveld, Jochem, author.

Title

Regional approaches to the responsibility to protect : lessons from Europe and West Africa / Jochem Rietveld.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Global politics and the responsibility to protect

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-8580