Arguments about Responsibility to Protect in Latin America: Diversity and Controversy about the Application of the Norm
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2018-12-24
Keywords:
R2P; constructivism; South America; Brazil; Ecuador; UN; conflicts resolution.
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This paper analyzes how the international norm of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is conceived in the south of the American continent, paying special attention to the position of Ecuador and Brazil, and explains the different South American perspectives about its application in the cases of Syria and Libya. This article takes
into consideration the constructivist theory to deepen in evidences of discursive character understand and explain how a posture about a liberal norm is built from South. According to constructivism a qualitative methodology was used, studying academic literature about the subject, analyzing official speeches from Ministers and Presidents of the study cases and interpreting journalistic notes and official
documents from Brazil and Ecuador.
into consideration the constructivist theory to deepen in evidences of discursive character understand and explain how a posture about a liberal norm is built from South. According to constructivism a qualitative methodology was used, studying academic literature about the subject, analyzing official speeches from Ministers and Presidents of the study cases and interpreting journalistic notes and official
documents from Brazil and Ecuador.
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Arguments about Responsibility to Protect in Latin America: Diversity and Controversy about the Application of the Norm. (2018). Comentario Internacional: Journal of the Andean Center of International Studies, 17, 35-50. https://doi.org/10.32719/26312549.2017.17.2