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Emerging powers and the responsibility to protect: non-linear norm dynamics in complex international society
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In this paper, the authors identify a range of factors that drive participation (or generate hesitation) amongst emerging powers in the development and application of the RtoP and argue that norm evolution is a unique and emergent outcome of complex international society and therefore argues for using complexity thinking as a heuristic to augment current models and explanations.Abstract:
The perceived clash of norms associated with the emergence of rising powers is nowhere more pronounced than in relation to the responsibility to protect (RtoP). However, attempts to explain rising powers’ engagement with norms such as the RtoP are often limited and limiting in what they can tell us. Orthodox models portray predominantly linear and diffusionist logics of norm evolution that underplay the complex interaction implicit in unpredictable outcomes at the systemic level. This article identifies a range of factors that drive participation (or generate hesitation) amongst emerging powers in the development and application of the RtoP. It proceeds to illustrate how changes in normative behaviour emanate from top-down and bottom-up processes as well as the feedback between them. It argues that norm evolution is consequently a unique and emergent outcome of complex international society and therefore argues for using complexity thinking as a heuristic to augment current models and explanations...read more
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