Fellows 2019

Betcy Jose

Associate Professor für Politikwissenschaft an der University of Colorado Denver

Aufenthalt am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

Januar – April 2019

Forschungsthema am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

»Russia as a Norm Contester and Norm Entrepreneur«

Projektbeschreibung:

A recent version of humanitarian intervention is the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine. It sanctions nonintervention norm violations if military force is a measure of last resort and the United Nations Security Council approves the intervention. However, with the 2014 Crimea episode, Russia seemingly not only challenged R2P but also offered an alternative framework to permissibly engage in a country’s domestic affairs. This project scrutinizes these endeavors in two ways. First, it will explore how the international community reacted to Russia’s justifications for its Crimean intervention, inquiring into who rejected them, who accepted them, and why. Second, it will theorize why Russia embarked on this effort to challenge this global norm. In doing so, the project will investigate the role of ideas and values in contributing to a country’s overall power status.
Through these endeavors, this project strives to advance our understanding of how global norms are created and modified. By investigating the impact of Russian humanitarian arguments on the international rules permitting violations of sovereignty norms, this project contributes to a wide array of literatures such as the literatures on the international dimension of authoritarian regimes, post-Soviet area studies, and global norms. It advances the debate about the various measures that powerful authoritarian regimes undertake to promote their foreign policy goals and what those goals may be. (Betcy Jose)

Zusammenarbeit:

Betcy Jose folgt einer Einladung von Nicole Deitelhoff (Professorin für Internationale Beziehungen und Theorien globaler Ordnungen an der Goethe-Universität) und dem an der Universität angesiedelten Exzellenzcluster: »Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen«.

Wissenschaftliches Profil von Betcy Jose

Betcy Jose ist Professorin für Politische Theorie an der University of Colorado (Denver). 2016 war sie Gastwissenschaftlerin im Bereich International Diffusion and Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes network am German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg und Berlin.

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Forschungsschwerpunkte:

Bewaffnete Konflikte, Globale Normen und internationales Menschenrecht.

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl):

(zusammen mit Christoph H. Stefes) »Russian Norm Entrepreneurship in Crimea – Serious Contestation or Cheap Talk?«, in: GIGA Working Paper, Nr. 311 (2018).
»Not Completely the New Normal: How Human Rights Watch Tried to Suppress the Targeted Killing Norm«, in: Contemporary Security Policy, 2017 (Gewinner des Bernard Brodie Prize 2018).
»Bin Laden’s Targeted Killing and Emerging Norms«, in: Critical Studies on Terrorism, 10/1 (2017), S. 44-66.
(zusammen mit Peace Medie) »Civilian Self-Protection and Civilian Targeting in Armed Conflicts: Who Protects Civilians?«, in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (2016).

Betcy Jose

Wissenschaftliches Profil von Betcy Jose

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