Small State and Middle Power Norm Diplomacy at the United Nations
Defending the Responsibility to Protect in Turbulent Times
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:24th Feb '27
£171.99
This title is due to be published on 24th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Small State and Middle Power Norm Diplomacy at the United Nations analyzes the shifting diplomatic roles of Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden, small states and middle powers with a track record as Responsibility to Protect (R2P) norm entrepreneurs at the United Nations (UN), in times of world order crisis.
Through systematically analysing diverse data, including UN speeches, policy documents, and interviews with diplomats, bureaucrats, and NGO practitioners, the book assesses the role of Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden in introducing and shaping norms at the UN between 1999 and 2022, and their ability to adapt their diplomacy to a changing global political environment. Comparing these four states, it explores the long-term shifts in diplomatic approaches and outlines how their diplomacy has changed over time.
The book identifies typical patterns of foreign policy behavior, and differentiates diplomatic approaches, concerning small states and middle powers. Combining these insights on state categories with a constructivist lens on norm contestation discourses, it provides an innovative perspective on theoretical concepts.
Small State and Middle Power Norm Diplomacy at the United Nations will be of great interest to students and scholars of International Relations, Politics, Diplomacy, and Conflict Studies.
“At a time of growing uncertainty about the future of the prevailing global order, this book provides an empirically rich reminder for scholars and policymakers of the agency of small and middle powers in creating, maintaining, and shaping important elements of order, focusing on the responsibility to protect.”
Karen Smith, Leiden University, Former special adviser to the UN secretary-general on the responsibility to protect
"An empirical rich and theoretically sophisticated study of the R2P norm diplomacy of Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark, this important and timely book will be useful to students, researchers and diplomats seeking to understand small state and middle power agency in an increasingly contentious international order."
Anders Wivel, Professor of International Relations, University of Copenhagen
ISBN: 9781041017233
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224 pages