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Title: | Rwanda Reconsidered: A Study of Norm Violation |
Author: | Glanville, Luke |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Journal of Contemporary African Studies |
Volume: | 24 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | May |
Pages: | 185-202 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Rwanda United States |
Subjects: | norms right of intervention genocide Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations Law, Human Rights and Violence |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02589000600769934 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=42119DAC0618818BBEEF |
Abstract: | The author contends that beliefs shared by liberal members of international society not only permit intervention but prescribe it in certain circumstances. He gives an account of the impact the norm prescribing humanitarian intervention had on the response of the United States government to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He argues that a rationalist perspective of the international response to this genocide has difficulty accounting for some of the statements and policies of the Clinton administration. These can better be explained by reference to norms. If a situation is sufficiently ambiguous for States plausibly to claim exemption from a norm, they are able to violate the norm. Yet, through the violation - through their justifications - the substance of the norm can be discerned. In the case of the Rwandan genocide, this can be seen in the framing of the atrocities as an intractable civil war and the denial of the occurrence of genocide. Clinton's apologies, four years later, for his administration's inaction, further substantiate claims that there was a perceived duty to intervene which the US and others chose to violate. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |