Newman, E orcid.org/0000-0002-2414-5269 and Stefan, CG orcid.org/0000-0002-0706-2082 (2020) Normative Power Europe? The EU’s Embrace of the Responsibility to Protect in a Transitional International Order. Journal of Common Market Studies, 58 (2). pp. 472-490. ISSN 0021-9886
Abstract
This paper assesses the EU's engagement with the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) principle and considers the scope for its integration into the EU's activities and global strategy. We examine how the EU's engagement with R2P tests its normative leadership in the context of internal and external political challenges to its authority. We expand on previous studies of the EU's ‘failure to live by example’ regarding R2P by adding a missing analytical dimension – trends at the global level – and by suggesting an alternative explanation for the apparent ambivalence towards R2P in some parts of the EU. The EU has engaged with R2P – albeit labelled differently at times – more than many observers recognize, and despite bureaucratic resistance and diverging national approaches. Rather, the fundamental constraint on the EU's role in promoting R2P relates to a transitional international order in which the EU's normative traction is in decline, and European foreign policy elites are increasingly pragmatic and cautious.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Newman, E., and Stefan, C. G. ( 2019) Normative Power Europe? The EU's Embrace of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ in a Transitional International Order. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12953. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. |
Keywords: | Responsibility to Protect; Atrocity Prevention; European foreign policy; European Union; Normative power |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jun 2019 11:12 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2021 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/jcms.12953 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:146576 |