Dueling Humanitarianisms: Russia, Crimea, and Global Norms
Fellowvortrag und Präsentation
Mittwoch, 13. März 2019, 14 Uhr
PhD Betcy Jose (Associate Professor für Politikwissenschaft an der University of Colorado Denver, Fellow des Exzellenzclusters "Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen" und Dr. Christoph Stefes (Associate Professor für Politikwissenschaft an der University of Colorado Denver)
Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Baseler Straße 27-31
D-60329 Frankfurt am Main
More recently, scholars have paid more attention to how powerful autocratic regimes such as China and Russia have seemingly challenged democracies, emerging as potential contesters of international norms. What might be the outcome of this contestation? This paper broadly explores this query by investigating Russia's humanitarian justifications for its Crimean incursion. It examines whether Russia's claim of humanitarian intervention is more than a clever attempt to disguise pure power politics. Is Russia contesting dominant understandings of humanitarian interventions in order to reshape our ideas of permissible violations of sovereignty norms to protect vulnerable populations? Using Atlas.ti, we also explore global responses to Russia's humanitarian claims. Our initial findings indicate that the Crimean intervention enabled Russia to contest Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and to champion an alternative version of humanitarian intervention.
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Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Exzellenzcluster "Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen"