Circumventing the Responsibility to Protect in Yemen: Rhetorical Adaptation and the United Nations Security Council

IF 0.8 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Global Responsibility to Protect Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI:10.1163/1875-984x-14010009
Felicity Mulford
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Since 2015, the population of Yemen has faced atrocity crimes and the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. Through a discourse analysis, this research investigates how United Nations Security Council (unsc) member states interact with the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P) norm within formal meetings and resolutions on the conflict in Yemen. Members of the unsc use rhetorical adaptation techniques to circumvent their responsibility to protect the Yemeni population through military intervention should political, diplomatic, or humanitarian methods fail, leading to norm erosion. For example, rather than responding to the mass atrocities through an R2P lens, international law is invoked (norm avoidance), ultimately shifting responsibility from action to reaction through observation and prosecution. This research reinforces the need to research norms at the agent level, as norms can undergo various processes of resistance simultaneously. Rather than playing a pertinent role in atrocity prevention, R2P is being resisted and violated by members of the unsc.
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规避也门的保护责任:修辞适应与联合国安理会
自2015年以来,也门人民面临着暴行犯罪和世界上最严重的人道主义灾难。通过话语分析,本研究调查了联合国安理会(unsc)成员国如何在关于也门冲突的正式会议和决议中与“保护责任”(R2P)规范互动。如果政治、外交或人道主义手段失败,安理会成员使用修辞上的适应技巧来规避他们通过军事干预保护也门人民的责任,从而导致规范受到侵蚀。例如,不是从R2P的角度来应对大规模暴行,而是援引国际法(规范回避),最终通过观察和起诉将责任从行动转移到反应。这项研究强调了在行为主体层面研究规范的必要性,因为规范可以同时经历各种抵抗过程。“保护责任”非但没有在防止暴行方面发挥相关作用,反而遭到安理会成员国的抵制和违反。
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Global Responsibility to Protect
Global Responsibility to Protect Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations
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