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dc.contributor.authorWidmaier, Wesley
dc.contributor.authorGlanville, Luke
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-05T00:33:06Z
dc.date.available2019-03-05T00:33:06Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn1356-9775
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13569775.2015.1014178
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/141225
dc.description.abstractOver the past two decades, International Relations scholars have highlighted the importance of efforts by hegemonic states and norm entrepreneurs to foster norm clarity when promoting the establishment, institutionalisation, and internalisation of norms. Yet, such analyses obscure the benefits of norm ambiguity in facilitating consensus, flexibility, and compliance. The authors offer a framework positing that hegemonic and institutional ambiguity can help create consensus and facilitate incremental reform necessary to sustain that consensus. Empirically, the authors then show how such ambiguity has facilitated the development of the responsibility to protect norm, tracing Rwanda-era debates over humanitarian intervention, Iraq-era backlash over interventionist abuses, and Libya-era norm implementation.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageenglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom367
dc.relation.ispartofpageto383
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalContemporary Politics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume21
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical Science not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical Science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160699
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1606
dc.titleThe benefits of norm ambiguity: constructing the responsibility to protect across Rwanda, Iraq and Libya
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Department of International Business and Asian Studies
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorWidmaier, Wesley
gro.griffith.authorGlanville, Luke


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